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The Download: Amazon’s home-guarding robot, and covid’s violent legacy

In the latest episode of our podcast, In Machines We Trust, we dig into the world of digital twins: AI-powered replicas designed to capture the physical look and expressions of real humans.... Read more »

How AI is helping birth digital humans that look and sound just like us

Jennifer: And the team has also been exploring how these digital twins can be useful beyond the 2D world of a video conference.  Greg Cross: I guess the.. the big, you know,... Read more »

Amazon has a new plan for its home robot Astro: to guard your life

Still, last year’s pitch was that Astro could be a home assistant to make your life more comfortable and entertaining—a sort of cute, bumbling sidekick. This year, Amazon has recast Astro as... Read more »

A bionic pancreas could solve one of the biggest challenges of diabetes

The bionic pancreas, a credit card-sized device called an iLet, monitors a person’s levels around the clock and automatically delivers insulin when needed through a tiny cannula, a thin tube inserted into... Read more »

Growth means composability, brick by brick

Composability is increasingly available. “Achieving composability a decade ago was hard, expensive, and proprietary,” says Janakiram MSV, analyst at Janakiram & Associates. In this atmosphere, failing to make the change may be... Read more »

The Download: China’s non-coup, and building better batteries

If you’re on Twitter and follow news about China, you likely have heard a pretty wild rumor recently: that President Xi Jinping was under house arrest and that there was about to... Read more »

The pandemic created a “perfect storm” for Black women at risk of domestic violence

Being able to work remotely at her job at the onset of the covid-19 pandemic made the transition easier. She got an apartment and he moved in, and she hoped for the... Read more »

How one vineyard is using AI to improve its winemaking

Pinot Grigio actually makes a white wine and it’s won a few varieties in California that, uh, is a pretty common variety that actually we make purple grapes that make a white... Read more »

How the false rumor of a Chinese coup went viral

India has the third-largest number of Twitter users in the world. Considering the long-standing geopolitical tensions between India and China, plus the relative lack of knowledge that average Indians likely have about... Read more »

Maximize data outcomes by investing in people and systems

Sundar: In my experience, being an architect in the past and managing and providing consulting for a lot of my customers, data governance is being looked at primarily to serve the regulatory... Read more »