Video Analytics Gets a COVID-bump
Analytics can derive more information than what we capture and see on videos As COVID-19 speeds up industry-wide digital transformation and a contactless economy, the demand for actionable insights from video data is increasing – enabling market growth. Fortune Business Insight reports that the global market for video analytics is currently valued at US$2.4 billion and is […]
Automated-Decision-Intelligence to empower millions of data workers to use the power of AI
There are more people out there who use data to take business decisions, than those who actually work with data. Researchers say there are 1 to 2 million data scientists and nearly 5-10 million data and business analysts, but an estimated 50-65 million data workers take business decisions based on data. Such decision makers often […]
EU doubts if Clearview AI is legal
It’s time for data scientists to understand the implications of privacy regulations Obstacles continue to dog Clearview AI – the closely guarded facial recognition developer that started making waves ever since it went public with its innovation. The fact that the company sourced facial images for its database from random websites over the internet had […]
Making a Living out of Social Distancing
A new profession emerges out of the COVID hotbed The COVID-induced lockdown is gradually giving way to an “unlocking” phase all over the world as people try to resume normal activities. But we are very much aware by now that normal will never be the same again – at least for quite some time. There […]
End of Moore’s Law?
Microchips might not go on improving forever; leaner codes may be the order of the day The integrated circuit (IC) chip was one invention that changed the face of computing technology. Though the concept and inception of integrated circuits was a result of work done by several physicists – including Jack Kilby, Kurt Lehovec, Robert […]
Online knowledge session on recession-proof career in Cyber Security
Praxis Business School presents an online knowledge session on ‘How to build a recession-proof career in Cyber Security’ on June 27th, 2020 from 12noon-1pm. Cyber security has emerged as a compelling choice for a recession-proof career in the post-COVID 19 pandemic scenarios, with a requirement of 3 million trained professionals in India itself! According to a […]
Facebook strives to hit back at deepfakes with AI
Being products of deep learning and generative neural network architecture, deepfakes are way more advanced than traditional fake image or videos – and often impossible to identify. The consequent harm can be far-reaching,and social-media portals are gradually waking up to the threat of such refined fakes spreading doctored information to manipulate public opinion on a […]
European organizations face data science skills shortage
While the world grapples with unprecedented economic challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis is also driving the need for digital transformation in organizations. Digital transformations will generate massive amounts of data, enabling organizations to extract actionable intelligence from such data, thus leveraging analytics. However, a recent survey from MIT has found that change […]
Sports’ new Secret-Sauce: Data Science
How Data Science is driving the word of professional sports If you’ve ever wondered how to win the most competitive football league in the world with almost 20% of the season left to play and a 36%-point margin, here’s the recipe: a talismanic manager, superstars in the starting line-up and tactical brilliance using a bucket […]
Can AI reopen workplaces?
#BackToOffice in the offing – and AI will be instrumental Face it: you’re probably not going back to the office any time soon. It’s been almost half a year since the COVID pandemic has been in our midst, and until a vaccine has been confirmed, it isn’t likely to change any time soon. Over the […]