Amazon has launched a new service that uses machine learning to extract key data from patient records and can potentially help healthcare providers and researchers save money, make treatment decisions, and manage clinical trials. The company announced the service, called Amazon Comprehend Medical, on Tuesday, shortly after the Wall Street Journal reported on it. The…
Germany automaker Audi, Airbus and Italdesign presented Tuesday a scaled-down version of its vision of the future: a drone that can pluck the cab off of an autonomous electric vehicle and then fly off to its intended destination. The companies showed off the flying taxi concept Tuesday during Drone Week in Amsterdam. You can watch…
As the 2018 holiday shopping season approaches, the retail sector will once again take center stage. Brick-and-mortar retailers haven’t had it easy in the past decade, as more and more consumers shift their shopping habits as a result of ecommerce. However, despite some predictions that brick and mortars are doomed to become mere memories of…
Across the five days from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, Amazon said customers ordered a staggering 180 million items via its U.S. site alone, and you can probably guess its biggest-selling item … The post Amazon’s biggest-selling item on Cyber Monday? Take a guess appeared first on Digital Trends. Source link Shiv EswarShiv has over 8…
Dermot O’Connell, VP and GM OEM and IOT Solutions EMEA, Dell EMC, explains what the smart cities of the future will look like and what it will take to get there. NEW CONNECTIONS An occasional series of vendor perspectives on the world of connected business. It is incredible to think that 70 years ago there were…
Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, AWS announced a new service for satellite providers with the launch of AWS Ground Station, the first fully managed ground station as a service. With this new service, AWS will provide ground antennas through their existing network of worldwide availability zones, as well as data processing services to…
Turo, the peer-to-peer car-sharing company described as the “Airbnb of cars,” is rolling out a new product that will let users locate and unlock cars right from the app. The new product, called Turo Go, is a dongle and an accompanying service that aims to bolster the number of cars and users on its platform.…
At Facebook, where he was the first-ever director of platform, they called him Bling. At YouTube the following year, they still called him Bling. At Google in 2010, they continued to call him Bling. Even at Khosla Ventures, where Ben Ling has been a general partner for the past five years, the nickname stuck. It was…
Alex Lazarow works at the intersection of investing, innovation and economic development across the public, private and social sectors. He is a venture capitalist with Cathay Innovation and an adjunct professor with the Middlebury Institute for International Studies MBA program. While Westerners often associate the invention of calculus with 17th century European luminaries like Isaac…
Like other carriers, Sprint is working hard on bringing the next generation of cellular connectivity to customers. In fact, the company has even announced that it’s working with HTC and Qualcomm on a new 5G smart hub. The post Sprint’s 5G rollout: Everything you need to know appeared first on Digital Trends. Source link Shiv…
