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This is the 2-part blog version of a talk I've given at DOAG Conference this week. I've also uploaded the slides (no ppt; just pretty R presentation;-)) to the articles section, but if you'd like a little text I'm encouraging you to read on. That is, if you're in the target group for this post/talk. For this post, let me assume you're a SQL girl (or guy). With SQL you're comfortable (an expert, probably), you know how to get and manipulate your data, no nesting of subselects has you scared;-).

Machines are eating humans' jobs talents. And it's not just about jobs that are repetitive and low-skill. Automation, robotics, algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) in recent times have shown they can do equal or sometimes even better work than humans who are dermatologists, insurance claims adjusters, lawyers, seismic testers in oil fields, sports journalists and financial reporters, crew members on guided-missile destroyers, hiring managers, psychological testers, retail salespeople, and border patrol agents. Moreover, there is growing anxiety that technology developments on the near horizon will crush the jobs of the millions who drive cars and trucks, analyze medical tests and data, perform middle management chores, dispense medicine, trade stocks and evaluate markets, fight on battlefields, perform government functions, and even replace those who program software – that is, the creators of algorithms. People will create the jobs of the future, not simply train for them, ...

Leading funders and researchers this week agreed that all their clinical trials for vaccines and devices would in future be publicly registered and the results published. The pledge -- made by nearly a dozen groups including the Wellcome Trust and the UK Medical Research Council -- is a boost for innovation and safety. Some estimates suggest that half of all trial findings, notably those that do not yield positive results, are not made public. This is a significant waste of research, burying information that could help to better direct future work, reduce dangers to patients and boost efficiency. In an era of big data and partnership between medical research and IT, there is considerable potential to improve number crunching and identify patterns in trial data.

Google will make it harder for that friend in your group to make excuses when chipping in for food. The tech titan's voice assistant will be able send personal payments for you in the coming months, just like its rival Siri can, so long you're in the US. Simply tell it to "Send John $10 for pizza" or something similar and authenticate the transaction with your fingerprint or password to send cash. Your recipient will then receive an email about your payment. The big G recently tweaked its API to make any card associated with your account available on all its apps and on third-party applications that use Google Payments.

The new Huracán is lighter, faster, and corners like a champ - thanks to technology. Lamborghini CEO Stefano Domenicali, left, and head of research and development Maurizio Reggiani recently visited San Francisco with their Huracan Performante in tow. "This car represents so much of what we are," says Reggiani, who joined CEO Stefano Domenicali for a breakfast interview with USA TODAY Tuesday. "We are looking to the future." The future, these days, seems to be all about self-driving cars designed to completely detach the driver from the transportation experience.

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. We live in a world where facial recognition has become so sophisticated that we're being forced to ask very serious ethical questions about it. In China, it's being used to detect toilet paper theft. But I want to take a step back from the big hairy ethical questions and consider how we started on this road--with typography. Optical character recognition, or OCR, is a technology that came up with computing in general.

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Ring founder and Chief Executive Jamie Siminoff stands in the new building in Santa Monica where his company will expand. Ring founder and Chief Executive Jamie Siminoff stands in the new building in Santa Monica where his company will expand. If booming sales, expanding offices and a parade of TV commercials hadn't put Jamie Siminoff on the radar of the home security industry, an early March incident certainly did. Four hours after the rumored collapse of a merger between a software start-up and security giant Honeywell, Siminoff took a cross-country red-eye, ready to swoop in with an offer of his own. Avoiding a drawn-out acquisition process, Siminoff in a single day hired all 75 of the beleaguered start-up's employees to work for Ring, his Santa Monica video doorbell company. Caught flat-footed, global giants that were weighing a purchase howled at Siminoff by phone. "They sat back, futzed around and let these people lose their jobs and now they want to harass" me, he said.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Unless you've been on a sabbatical deep in the rainforests of Peru, you've probably heard about Artificial Intelligence (AI). But if you still relate it to all things science fiction and robotic, it's time to look further.