McDonalds has just gobbled up its second AI up start up in the last 6 months. In March they purchased Dynamic Yield, an AI company focused on omni channel personalisation. The thinking is that they are looking to personalise menus based on current weather conditions & other external factors that may influence peoples orders at…
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Young people are more in tune with Instagram and Snapchat. Tiktok? Older people probably use Facebook to see what the grandkids are getting up to. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/04/facebook_now_boomerbook_as_oldies_outnumber_uk_teens/
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Following on from yesterday’s post, email I got this morning about the rapidly declining camera market.
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This morning on the early BBC news I caught the tail end of the technology presenter trying out the re launched Samsung Galaxy Fold, which goes on sale in South Korea today & in the UK on the 18th September. I was in the other room but from what I could hear, he was loving…
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DeepIndex.org is a website monitoring AI use in the real world. The site lists over 600 examples of AI in action & ranks them by how well they work, for real. Rank classifications are: Crushing it Capable Getting there Check it out, theres some very cool stuff happening out there DeepIndex.org
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Celebrity digital assets you can see being big business in years to come. https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/2/20844831/manny-pacquiao-cryptocurrency-pac-merchandise-gcox
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I bought the Official Raspberry Pi 4 desktop kit the other day. I haven’t had time to do anything with it yet apart from getting it connected to my home router. Looking forward to using it to try out some ideas I have been thinking about for a while.
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