Jan 15, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
If you want to know where a technology is going, follow the patents. That’s what researchers from Stanford University and Brookings Institution recently did with artificial intelligence-related patents submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office, and they have...
Jan 8, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Mapping
“Hey, I can see my house from up here!” It’s a joke so tired you’ll hear it from someone jumping on a trampoline, but that’s what came into my head as I banked a small turboprop airplane above my neighborhood in the new version of a revived classic, Microsoft Flight...
Jan 8, 2020 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
A drone flies over a potato field in Sinaloa, Mexico and informs a farmer 30 kilometres away that the humidity of the air around his crops is low. Meanwhile, a computer in San Diego, California, processes the data and calculates how much water the potatoes need. In...
Jan 8, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Government
Federal agencies will soon have to demonstrate that any proposed regulations for artificial intelligence technologies in the private sector abide by a new, “first-of-its-kind” series of 10 principles set forth by the Trump administration this week. In a preview...
Jan 2, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Featured
The cybersecurity-vendor sector is set to trim some of its fat in 2020, venture-capital executives say, and companies that weave sophisticated technologies such as artificial intelligence into their products are the ones likely to succeed. A number of high-profile...
Dec 19, 2019 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Internet of Things
Between 2013 and 2016, net income for farmers and ranchers dropped 45%, the largest three-year drop since the start of the Great Depression, according to the USDA. Farmers face “incredible financial, legal and emotional stress,” according to Farmaid. Their...
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