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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand. But not all rents are bad.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas.

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Fit and value: The business case for blockchain

O'Reilly

Blockchains have a uniquely tumultuous early history for an enterprise technology—from a mysterious origin story, to a sensational first application in bitcoin, to a swift fall from a particularly frothy hype cycle. Blockchain technology provides the encrypted distributed ledger that made the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, possible.

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Faster, higher, stronger: How the digitalization of industry is redefining value creation

All Things Distributed

What's more, digital technologies and business models that are focused on Industry 4.0 (i.e., However, digital technologies are now ushering in a paradigm change in value creation. Manufacturing can be fully digitalized to become part of a connected "Internet of Things" (IoT), controlled via the cloud.

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Track Thousands of Assets in a Time of Crisis Using Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

What’s missing is a flexible, fast, and easy-to-use software system that can be quickly adapted to track these assets in real time and provide immediate answers for logistics managers. Field personnel with mobile devices can send these messages over the Internet to the cloud service.

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Track Thousands of Assets in a Time of Crisis Using Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

What’s missing is a flexible, fast, and easy-to-use software system that can be quickly adapted to track these assets in real time and provide immediate answers for logistics managers. Field personnel with mobile devices can send these messages over the Internet to the cloud service.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. This starts with integrated platforms that can manage all activities, from market research to production to logistics.