GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Investors are putting more cash behind the self-driving weed-zapping machines made by Carbon Robotics that are attracting attention from farmers across the world. Most popular stories on GeekWire. AI-powered weed destroying startup harvests $27M round, farmers say laser-blasting machine saves time and cuts pesticide use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2024

Far from just gimmicks, these use cases will usher in a new era of smart stores that boost customer experience while increasing staff efficiency to drive down costs. They always get you at the drive-through We’ve all experienced it, and it shapes our willingness to return to the scene of the crime.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 7, 2021

My work in self-sovereign identity began with credit unions. Early on, a few intrepid people in the credit union industry recognized that self-sovereign identity (SSI) offered a way out of this mess. Signing up the larger body of existing members will likely require a move to self-enrollment since many never come into a branch.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 16, 2018

These two steps pave the way to establish a global public utility for self-sovereign identity—lifetime portable digital identity that does not depend on any central authority and can never be taken away. Tags: sovrin identity whitepaper verifiable+claims sovrin+token. The whitepaper has been a long time coming.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

It’s a real robot, with some real robot issues Growing up, I thought my generation had the best toys: Nerf blasters, laser tag, Game Boy , Legos in their prime, genuinely powerful Super Soakers, and of course, transforming action figures of all kinds. Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge. It’s awesome. Closing thoughts. excuse isn’t sound.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

Today’s rapidly rising rate environment is driving activity across the country’s 72,000 bank branches 2. And internal decision-makers must agree on how to index and tag each document. Those branches, and their operational sites and processing centers, are full of paper. Time to play ‘what’s in the box?’

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I bought a few and played with them, examined the contract code, and was thinking about how they might enable self-sovereignty, or not. There is one problem with CryptoKitties as a model of self-sovereignty: the CryptoKitty smart contract has a "pause" function that can be executed by certain addresses. Each kitty is owned by someone.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 29, 2020

Our future is going to be filled with self-driving cars that will be able to park themselves. What this means is that AI is good at recognizing words that it hears and sorting through photos by colors and items identified in user tags to find the right ones. We need to understand that AI can be used to mimic our human senses.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

And since Ford’s vehicles are still eligible for the full $7,500 federal tax credit, that price tag can essentially come down even more for early buyers. All versions of the F-150 Lightning will put their battery power down via two electric motors — one up front and one in back — meaning every buyer gets an all-wheel drive setup.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

While many lost their jobs in 2009, sparking a rise in home-based work such as direct selling, many others gave up self-employment to return to the workforce. However the temptations of self-employment can be replaced by desire for a steady pay packet, pulling people both ways. Climate Activists – Climate Doubters. Me - Everyone.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 29, 2010

Another is our drive to implement communication technologies, to engage more richly with others, and to publish on the Internet. Tags: Living Networks book. Our species has evolved to become a more refined vehicle for propagating ideas. One result is the desire to produce and consume mass media that seems so intrinsic to our race.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2021

The virtual format offers some benefits such as eliminating commutes and broader investor outreach, despite lacking the in-person connections that typically drive the accelerator experience. The pandemic has been the driving factor of many of the features that we are building and allows us to connect with our customers’ pain points.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

launch today ) and using that for enforcing tagging on AWS resources. Chris Mellor reports on something of a “scandal” wherein Western Digital is selling drives that use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) in use cases where that technology can cause noticeable performance problems. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

There’s also new browser based controls and a robotic arm attachment Boston Dynamics’ robotic dog, Spot, is getting a lot more self-sufficient. The new features follow Boston Dynamics’ announcement last June that it was making the Spot Explorer robot available to any company that could afford its $74,500 price tag.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

JANUARY 3, 2010

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Dan Pink ’s new book Drive touches on something that I’ve been thinking about for many years: the role – or lack thereof – of mastery in the workplace. Tags: Life Mastery Work ArtOfLiving Concept Work learning. How do you see your relationship with your company?

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

Now, with a price tag of $100,000, Luraschi had his truck — and all that comes with owning such a head-turner. A self-professed introvert, Luraschi was quickly learning that he was driving the wrong vehicle to maintain such a personality. “I saw you guys driving, I was like, ‘No way!

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 24, 2009

In 2005 Ben Bernanke spoke of the moderation of economic change, being self-congratulatory in saying that there had been no major downturns in 25 years, there was far lower variance in growth rates, and inflation had been beaten. A technological revolution would force and drive investment. This is possible, but not a certainty.

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Vox

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But is continuing to let humans drive even worse? The problem is that the technology has a long way to go before it can drive people safely on its own in everyday conditions. The company boasts it has logged well over 20 million miles of autonomous driving without a single death. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Tapping Personal Networks to Drive Business Success. Powerful driving forces across business, technology and society are shaping our world. Discover how you can make social media a driving force for your business success. Tapping Personal Networks to Drive Business Success. . - Leadership for Radical Times.

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Education publishers require an educational metadata management strategy to ensure that all content is tagged correctly and efficiently, with relevant keywords being searched for by learners. A good metadata strategy also paves the way for personalization, a growing trend in global education.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

That is a significant initial cost savings; however, use case(s) will always drive the total cost of any solution. This is not trivial, and it requires commercial companies to make significant financial investments to do it well, which drive up the cost of those solutions. As a schemaless system, the latest release of Hadoop (2.x)

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A Screw's Loose

MAY 23, 2013

You still need to spell out the differences in your policy, but instead of an entire 20 pages devoted to BYOD and a strategy that drives people away from using their own devices, you enable them to use them to meet their needs. print Tagged as: BYOD , COPE , Enterprise Mobility , Mobile Strategy , strategy. Tags Applications.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Social data portability is hard, because relationships are bidirectional, asymmetric, variable over time, and changed by self-awareness. It can drive the operation of corporate websites. Since many relationships are online-only, the map has become the territory. Social network data portability is going to be a sore point for some time.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

Vamosi: I once wrote about a petty car thief in Prague, Czech Republic who started the usual way by using scissors to cut the wires and hotwire the engine to drive away. This has turned into a RFID tag, which is a fob that you carry in your pocket and the fob reaches out to the car and it will unlock the car or lock the car.

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Dataconomy

JULY 14, 2023

Imagine a world where your car can drive itself, your appliances can order their own groceries, and your healthcare devices can monitor your vital signs 24/7. Sensors are often used in Machine to Machine applications because they can collect data in real time RFID tags : RFID tags are devices that can be used to identify and track objects.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This drives out risk and increases confidence. They limit their risk by only using IdPs they're familiar with and only accepting the (usually) self-asserted attributes from the IdP that don't involve much risk. Photo Credit: Data flowing over networks from DALL-e Tags: ssi identity decentralization

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

Researchers have shown, for example, that they can trick the software in Tesla’s self-driving cars to change lanes without warning simply by placing certain stickers on the road. This replicates an infamous error in Google’s image recognition system , which tagged Black people as gorillas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

The drive towards organization agility has helped fuel interest in the data mesh. Individual teams need to be able to self-serve their own data infrastructure – but you need overarching governance that ties everything together,” Stoop says. You can then start to distribute both the data and its management.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Summary: Self-sovereign identity is multi-source, but not all multi-source identity systems are self-sovereign. Self-sovereignty requires that people and organizations have control of their credentials and interact as peers. Self-sovereign identity means the individual or organization controls and manages their identity.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

The German automaker has just announced that when it goes on sale early next year, the new EV’s suggested price tag will exceed $80,000. That sum will get you an electric all-wheel drive motor configuration capable of putting out 516 horsepower for a 0–62mph sprint in 4.6 Well, we were right — sort of.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Autonomic computing is a self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body’s autonomic nervous system. This requires well-trained and specialized teams capable of self-management, communication and decision-making. Here is how they describe them: Autonomic Computing.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

First introduced in 2016 , the Chevy Bolt was intended to be General Motors’ first stab at a mass-market, purely battery-electric vehicle with 200-plus miles of range and an affordable price tag. Like previous models, the new Bolts will have regenerative braking and a one-pedal driving mode that is fairly common among EVs today.

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Phil Windley

MAY 24, 2023

Self-sovereign identity is like streaming: share just what you want, just when it's needed. The analog to streaming is decentralized or self-sovereign identity (SSI). People will likely love the convenience that verifiable credentials offer and they'll be more secure and private, but that's not driving demand in any appreciable way.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 26, 2021

This article describes the implementation self-sovereign identity through protocol-mediated credential exchange on the self-sovereign internet, examines its properties, and argues for it generative nature from those properties. The self-sovereign internet is labeled "Layer Two" in this figure. Verifiable Credentials.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

We’re past the point of inflection: Information technology no longer merely supports or even drives an organization’s strategy; it has the power to transform and expand organizational missions and open up new strategic possibilities. For an in-depth look at this project and how it has evolved, see “ CarMax drives business value with GPT-3.5.”

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 12, 2020

Summary: Self-sovereign identity, supported by a heterarchical identity metasystem, creates a firm foundation for rich digital relationships that allow people to digitally embodied so they can act online as autonomous agents. The Self-Sovereign Alternative. Figure 2: Self-Sovereign Identity Stack (click to enlarge).

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Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Multimedia-enriched eBooks also provide the student with self-assessment tools like quizzes, exercises, or assessments that will help him identify his areas of strengths and weaknesses in the given subject and topic. Inspire Innovation Interactive eBooks offer content creators a platform for experimentation and creativity.

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