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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

GeekWire

Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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Facebook names a new CTO with a major focus on hardware

The Verge

Incoming CTO Andrew Bosworth wearing Facebook’s new smart glasses with Ray-Ban. On Wednesday, the company promoted Andrew Bosworth, the current head of its hardware division that makes Oculus and other consumer devices, to the role of chief technology officer, replacing outgoing CTO Mike Schroepfer when he becomes a senior fellow next year.

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What is AI’s current impact on cybersecurity?

CIO Business Intelligence

In our inaugural episode, Michael “Siko” Sikorski, CTO and VP of Engineering and Threat Intelligence at Unit 42 answers that question and speaks to the profound influence of artificial intelligence in an interview with David Moulton, Director of thought leadership for Unit 42. What’s Sikorski’s critical concern?

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DTW 2022: Telenor moves closer to touch-free future

TM Forum

Telenor EVP and CTO Ruza Sabanovic said the Norwegian telco’s network and IT domain is around 70% of the way towards achieving the ambition outlined three years ago of becoming a 100% “touch free” operation by 2023. “Now, sales and distribution and customer care have the same ambition,” she said.

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Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality

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Creating virtual environments from real-world videos. That’s just a sampling of artificial intelligent (AI) systems’ achievements in 2018, and evidence of how […]. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Identifying victims of human trafficking.

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Google Acquires Drone Maker Titan Aerospace

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Two examples: this year, Facebook acquired virtual reality firm Oculus in an effort to develop new communication lines, and Google purchased DeepMind, pushing into the artificial intelligence sphere. Big Data CTO DoD and IC Amazon.com Artificial intelligence Earth Facebook Google Internet access New Mexico Wall Street Journal'

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Chinese investment into computer vision technology and AR surges as U.S. funding dries up

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Chinese investments in artificial intelligence seems to get all the headlines, but these are not the only tech areas where investments are on the rise. In the year 2017, virtual reality and augmented reality were the buzzwords attracting millions in investment in the U.S. However, […].