Photo: Joe McKendrick The ascendance of digital enterprises — powered by AI, machine learning, and cloud-based services — is recasting the career opportunities of technology managers and professionals. Coding skills continue to be in demand, but companies ultimately want more, and as a result, IT roles are being pushed upward. One thing is sure —…
Photo credit: Weiquan Lin/Getty Images Our annual partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, just concluded. The conversations I had with Microsoft’s partner community echo those I have had recently with leaders from both established organizations and earlier-stage enterprises. Leaders across industries share a commitment to innovation as the only path forward through uncertainty in global markets, especially…
Emotional awareness is intuitive to us. We are wired to know when we and others are feeling angry, sad, disgusted… because our survival depends on it. Our ancestors needed to monitor reactions of disgust to know which foods to stay away from. Children observed reactions of anger from their elders to know which group norms…
Blake Lemoine, a software engineer for Google, claimed that a conversation technology called LaMDA had reached a level of consciousness after exchanging thousands of messages with it. Google confirmed it had first put the engineer on leave in June. The company said it dismissed Lemoine’s “wholly unfounded” claims only after reviewing them extensively. He had…
Dubai hospitality technology company QSTAY that is redefining the guest experience through technology and design has announced $6.5M SEED round to support its growth plans and expansion to global markets. Featured Image for QSTAY Hospitality Technologies Featured Image for QSTAY Hospitality Technologies DUBAI, Arab Emirates, July 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Qstay Hospitality Technologies (“Qstay”…
Many of us are intrigued by wonders that scream “THE FUTURE” like flying cars. But sometimes the best inventions are more about brain power than technology magic. Let me give you a couple of examples in my quest to appreciate the ingenuity in boring things. Take apple supply chains and roof trusses. I was introduced…
