ABN AMRO and Samsung jointly launch blockchain for container transport
Today, ABN AMRO, together with the Port of Rotterdam Authority and Samsung SDS, Samsung's logistics and IT arm, is launching a pilot with blockchain. The companies want to build a platform together with which international container transport must be handled efficiently.
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Samsung opens seventh AI research center in Montreal
Samsung has opened a new AI research centre in Montreal. It is the seventh AI research centre to open the company worldwide. It is also Samsung's fourth AI research centre in North America, alongside Silicon Valley, New York and Toronto.
Canadian Montreal is home to AI researchers at McGill Univers... Read more
Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind makes even more AI projects open-source
Alphabet's research group on the development of artificial intelligence, DeepMind Technologies, is going to share more of its work with the world. Some of the important algorithmic components is made open-source. These are algorithms associated with what the company describes as some of its most suc... Read more
MIT announces plans for new AI university
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced plans to create a new one-billion-dollar university where students are taught artificial intelligence (AI). That says Silicon Angle. The aim is to provide education for a future in which AI has a role in every scientific discipline.
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IBM Food Trust is blockchain technology to reduce food waste
IBM today rolled out new blockchain software. The technology giant is coming up with the IBM Food Trust, a software package built to map food supply routes. It is the latest addition to the blockchain ecosystem and one that should help to reduce food wastage.
The IBM Food Trust must connect the enti... Read more
“Hundreds of Dutch routers hacked to generate cryptic currency.
Dutch routers are used by hackers to generate cryptographic currency monero. Hundreds of routers would have been hacked. These are MikroTik brand routers, which have a vulnerability that has been known for months. A patch was released last April, but many have not yet installed it.
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Google Deepmind deletes GPS in new visual navigation technique
Google will soon make the Streetlearn dataset available for training in machine learning models. The result would be navigation without GPS, because only image recognition is needed to map out and follow routes.
Deepmind, Google's AI department, has been working on Google Street View images that are... Read more
UiPath opens marketplace for AI tools and services
UiPath has started a marketplace for its artificial intelligence (AI) tools and services. In this way, enterprises must be helped to start business automation.
UiPath offers robotic process automation (RPA). This AI application uses software robots to observe workflows in common business application... Read more
Investment market around blockchain and cryptic currency bigger than ever
Despite a drop in the number of initial coin offerings, and a falling price of several crypt currencies, the broader investment market around blockchain and cryptovaluta startups seems stronger than ever. At least today, new figures show this.
Research group Diar, active in blockchain, reports today... Read more
Airports and airlines want to apply biometric technology as soon as possible.
According to new research, airports are eager to introduce biometric technology. For example, some biometric technology should be used to identify passengers at self-service kiosks. Another technique being looked at is the application of artificial intelligence for business analysis.
That's what IT ... Read more