Automation

5G

How 5G Will Revolutionize Your Morning Commute

June 26, 2019 | Read Time: 5 Minutes

The growing 5G network has the potential to impact urban environments like New York City in a number of ways, such as ensuring the safety of self-driving cars and automating real-time traffic reports.

Blockchain

Fender Benders: Can Blockchain Save the Claims Process?

June 24, 2019 | Read Time: 6 Minutes

If you’ve ever been in a car accident, you know that feeling of frustration. Automobile insurers are looking to blockchain technology to make the claims process less stressful and more efficient for all.

Data Science

5 Expert Insights About the Future of Data Science Careers

March 13, 2019 | Read Time: 4 Minutes

Below are five predictions about the current careers landscape for data-related roles in 2019 and beyond—and how these trends may help fix the flow of enterprise-scale data systems.

Cyber Security

2019 Cybersecurity Predictions: Threats Grow as New Opportunities and Risks Emerge

January 23, 2019 | Read Time: 4 Minutes

Cybersecurity experts from RSA and Secureworks weigh in on the cyber threats—and—opportunities organizations will face on their digital transformation journey in 2019.

Trailblazers

2.13: Agriculture: Can vertical and urban farming feed the world?

Listen Time: 31 Minutes

Host Walter Isaacson talks farming. How did the mechanical reaper change the way we harvest? Can vertical farming help feed our ever-growing cities? Will AI, machine learning and the Internet of Things make farms more efficient?

AI

Robo-Accountants Are an Accountant’s Best Friend

June 20, 2018 | Read Time: 4 Minutes

Since the inception of the profession, accountants have been “numbers crunchers” and “bean counters”—mathematically inclined individuals tasked to laboriously assemble a company’s financial data and calculate revenue and expenses toward closing the books each quarter. Now so-called robo-accountants are doing the hard work, freeing accountants from crunching the numbers to make sense of them for operational and financial decision-making purposes.

Professional Skills

How Schools and Startups Are Preparing for an Automated Future

June 13, 2018 | Read Time: 4 Minutes

As technology reshapes the way we work at warp speed, we need to change training methodologies. How do we prepare the next generation for jobs that haven’t yet been invented? What kind of skillsets will they need, when machines can do what humans do? What kind of tech training do they need today to be ready for the future workplace? And would it mean totally rethinking education to encourage creative problem finding and solving? To explore these questions, we look at schools and startups who are rethinking education to learn and explore the new world of robotics, AI and machine learning.

Robotics

You Know SaaS, Now Get To Know RaaS

June 11, 2018 | Read Time: 5 Minutes

From drones that perform surveys for agriculture to mobile telepresence robots used for security, see why many robotics suppliers are expanding their businesses into robot-as-a-service (RaaS) business models.