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Robots Enable A Digital Transformation

Forbes - Tech

Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services (LTLS) begun their digital transformation three years ago. LTLS, with revenues of almost 270 million Euros in 2017, provides maintenance, repair and overhaul of aircrafts and aircrafts components. The company has several material flows related to warehousing: they receive brand new spare parts from the manufacturers, they receive repaired parts from partners, and they receive unserviceable parts from airlines they will repair at Lufthansa Technik's own facilities. The digital transformation is divided into three action areas: First, digitize the core by increasing operational efficiency; second, digitally enhance their products, and finally, explore whether digitization can allow them to create new types of opportunities based on new business models or new digital products. Because about half of this company's 2017 revenues are related to warehousing services, several of their digital projects have been related to improving efficiency and productivity in their warehouses.


Fortnite for Android: How to download apps that aren't on Google Play and avoid scams

The Independent - Tech

Fortnite developer Epic Games has decided to not make the popular game available through Google Play, meaning Android users could be more exposed to online scammers seeking to make a profit with fake versions. The game is expected to see a limited Android launch later this week alongside the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, with a full roll out anticipated for September. But recent revelations from Epic Games suggest the game will only be available for download through the firm's website. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney explained his company's decision to not use Google's official platform, claiming that the tech giant took a disproportionate cut of the sales through its store. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.


Momo: Police warn over horrifying WhatsApp image and its connection to sinister 'game' – but reality is even stranger

The Independent - Tech

Momo – the story and the picture – are utterly horrifying. And that's just about the only thing anyone can know for sure. The story is linked with a bizarre and chilling photo, as well as a series of stories that are just as sinister. The picture is being used by people on WhatsApp who trick young people into extreme behaviour that includes taking their own lives, according to those reports. It has led to warnings from the police, telling children to be careful and their parents to look after them. Many include the image, and suggestions that it has some sort of unknown power.


Facebook asks banks for access to people's intimate financial records, report claims

The Independent - Tech

Facebook has asked big banks to share detailed and intimate financial information about their customers, according to a new report. The social network would get access to people's card transactions and how much money they have in their account, the Wall Street Journal said. The potential agreement comes as Facebook continues to face criticism for failing to protect user data as part of the Cambridge Analytica and other scandals. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.


Facebook employees test dating app feature ahead of official release

The Independent - Tech

Facebook is testing a dating feature for its users. But only employees of the social network can currently sign up for it. The feature appears to be integrated into Facebook's normal social network and allows them to search out dates from among their network. The testing process of the new feature, known as'dogfooding', is designed to uncover any bugs or issues before it is officially launched for all users. Most of us are Facebook friends with some people we don't actually care about, and there are several ways to keep their updates off your News Feed.


Building a Matrix with reinforcement learning and artificial imagination deepsense.ai

#artificialintelligence

Time travel and unchaining the time-matter continuum is no big deal. Nor is recruiting a dragon slayer, a Jedi Knight and a Transformer – a child's mind is able to create fantastic worlds in seconds. So what would happen if robots had an artificial imagination? Developing innovative strategies in Go or unorthodox approaches to chess are just top-of-mind examples of how the agent in reinforcement learning can be creative. Go, Chess and League of Legends all draw on the imagination: players use abstract thinking to predict their opponent's actions and construct a strategy for upcoming moves.


From Amazon to Alibaba, Grocers' Agony Is Endless

#artificialintelligence

Want to know what Amazon.com Inc. will be doing in physical retail tomorrow? Look at what is happening in China today. If you'd taken this advice, you wouldn't have been surprised when the behemoth spent $13.7 billion last year buying Whole Foods. Eighteen months earlier Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. had launched Hema, a technologically advanced blend of online grocery shopping, dining and bricks and mortar.


Parker Solar Probe: How will Nasa attempt to 'touch' the Sun?

The Independent - Tech

Nasa is launching its latest space exploration mission this week, the Parker Solar Probe. The robotic craft will fly closer to the Sun than any man-made object has ever been before, beaming back invaluable new data on the star's properties and atmospheric conditions over a seven-year period. The project is named in honour of American physicist Eugene Parker who first speculated on the nature of solar winds in 1958. This is the first time a Nasa mission has honoured a living person. When and where is the launch?


iPhone 9: Apple supplier TSMC warns of delays after it is hit by major cyber attack

The Independent - Tech

A company that makes chips for Apple's iPhones has warned of delays after it was hit by a huge cyber attack. Taiwan Semiconductor Co, or TSMC, is still recovering from the virus and it will raise costs and delay shipments, it said. TSMC supplies chips to Apple as well as a whole host of other companies. The cyber attack came just weeks before the expected launch of the new iPhone, which is due to be released next month. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.


VSN to Launch Advanced VSNCrea and MAM AI Capabilities at IBC 2018

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"At IBC 2018 we will launch VSNCrea, an HTML5 and cloud-based version of our previous software VSNCreaTV for traffic and scheduling, and our VSNExplorer MAM media management platform integrated with the artificial intelligence systems of IBM Watson, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and ETIQMEDIA for automatic metadata detection. These new releases further underscore our ongoing commitment to supporting the worldwide media and entertainment industry through an increasingly sophisticated portfolio of cloud-based and innovative solutions."-- VSNCrea is the company's new software for TV, radio and second-screen traffic and scheduling. It enables the management of a company's content production catalog, either owned or acquired from third parties, as well as its advertising, production workflows, programming and broadcast planning -- all from a unique user interface. VSNCrea has been completely redesigned to offer broadcasters a brand-new, modern and user-friendly web interface that allows them to make quick and accurate decisions about when to broadcast a certain piece of content, thanks to its unified functionalities and workflows in one single interface.