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Federer & Bill Gates Tennis for African Children
Practically AI – Smart Cities & The Future of AI @ VISA
Practically AI – Bitcoin, Blockchain & Cripto Kitties @ Google
Practically AI – Discover How AI is Powering Technology Innovation @ Visa International in Foster City
Bibop Gresta CEO of Hyperloop – The Future of Transportation Now @ Sofia University Palo Alto
Korea, France, India, UAE are in discussion to implement Hyperloop Technology to enable population to travel like airplanes except without airplanes. Will reduce travel from Abu Dhabi to Dubai in 12 minutes instead of 2 hours. We are 38 months from the first passenger. Artificial Intelligence will be applied to monitor every aspect of the system. The system will be profitable and cost a lot …
Read More »Coming to a Theater Near You – Big changes coming in September in Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality overlays the digital world to real world scenes will be more relevant in many respects than Virtual Reality. Huge development and platform changes are coming. It will be applicable to entertainment, education, commerce. Many top AR developers are jumping ship into the new platform. The creator of Lord of the Rings is experimented with this new form of technology. source: BBC Future
Read More »Uncle Sam Regulates ICO
The amount of money raised with ICO recently has been short of amazing. This however opened doors for possible fraudulent ICO’s offered by shady “startups” who never intended to carry out the promise of the startup. Startup which is described by Eric Riles as “A human organization dedicated to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” If you already know …
Read More »Vinod Khosla – Khosla Ventures and Future of Technology @ JCC Palo Alto
Radical Innovation is going to come from startups and small/medium companies not from big corporations because big companies don’t take risks. “My Willingness to failed is what allowed me to Succeed”. Vinod is keen on AI. Fifteen of the top 20 job categories will be have positions replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Khosla Ventures just lead an investment of $50M in Vicarious AI. An artificial intelligence …
Read More »Will Initial Coin Offerings change how capital is raised?
Cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin and Ethereum continue to make headlines with many crypto currency startups raising funds using ICO (Initial Coin Offering) which is akin to a Kickstarter campaign albeit instead of receiving a product as an investor, you receive a “coins” in the new crypto currency in exchange for the value of money you put in. You receive “Coins” instead of “Shares”. Cryptocurrency is …
Read More »How to Successfully Pitch to Investors and Get Funded – Gary Jinks @ Google Launchpad
IOT World 2017 @ Santa Clara Convention Center
Innovations in Deep Learning @ Nokia San Jose
AMD Dominance in Cryptocurrency Mining May Not Last
Currently, AMD RX 480 and 580 graphics cards have been completely bought out by prospective miners, and despite their comparative weakness versus Nvidia cards of comparable price in terms of graphics or running neural networks, they have far higher demand. This is because a RX 480 has higher hashrate than a GTX 1070 from Nvidia, despite being at a similar price point to the GTX …
Read More »Carving up the Ownership Pie – Jason Putnam Gordon @ Sandbox
Ryzen CPU Release Insufficient to Woo Intel Enthusiasts
The Ryzen CPU’s that have been released recently, of which the flagship, the 1800X, is claimed to equal or surpass Intel’s i7-6900k, which is a $1000 msrp, 8 core, 16 thread CPU, for a msrp of $500. It does indeed match the 6900k in processing & rendering, but in games, behaves similarly to a pair of quad cores, causing it to fall far behind its …
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