Most marketers assume artificial intelligence knows more than it thinks, but it still thinks more than it knows -- and marketers know more than they think. This misconception persists because artificial intelligence (AI) does so much of the tedious work for us. Obtaining AI proficiency as a marketer was much different for me than learning other marketing skills. It's all too easy to believe AI eliminates the need to think critically about what we're doing. In contrast, learning other tools convinced me that mastering new platforms commanded the fullest extent of our brainpower.

Researchers at two U.K. universities have developed a way to predict battery health with 10 times greater accuracy than the current industry standard. A machine learning method developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and Newcastle University in the U.K. can predict battery health with 10 times greater accuracy than the current industry standard. The new method could help develop safer, more reliable batteries for electric vehicles and consumer electronics. The researchers trained the model by performing more than 20,000 experimental measurements. Said Cambridge's Alpha Lee, "By improving the software that monitors charging and discharging, and using data-driven software to control the charging process, I believe we can power a big improvement in battery performance."

I am a baseball fan. This will come as no surprise to anyone who has followed me for any length of time. This year, I was recruited to be a part of a fantasy league. For those who know about such things, it's a 5x5 league (Batting SB, R, RBI, Avg, HR and Pitching W, Saves, WHIP, ERA, Strikeouts). I was honored to be invited because this particular league has been around since before baseball statistics became so ubiquitous.

A whole lot has changed in the past month, and, for once, we're not talking about innovation and the IoT (Internet of Things). The COVID-19 pandemic is raging in the U.S., and industries are feeling the effect. In the midst of so much uncertainty, can IoT technologies rise to the challenge and help society solve its most pressing challenges, which have changed so drastically in the past several weeks? Can innovative individuals and companies leverage emerging technologies like AI (artificial intelligence) to address issues arising from COVID-19 now, or can they prevent similar situations from unfolding in the future? Can a supercomputer help identify the most effective treatments for COVID-19?

To find future treatments for infections, we might have to look back at the past. Before the discovery and advent of antibiotics, doctors had an altogether different strategy to treat bacterial infections. The treatment is called phage therapy, and it uses special viruses called bacteriophages or phages for short. Phages are harmless to humans, but they infect and kill bacteria. In 1923, the George Eliava Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, pioneered the use of phages to treat human infections.

Google Cloud has kindly offered to provide attendees with lunch delivered via Uber Eats. We will share the details with those that register a few days before the workshop. Please note we are only able to provide lunch for people located in Stockholm, Sweden. We want to emulate as much as possible real-world connections in a remote setting: we will go through a fun ice breaker activity together to break down the stranger barrier. We will share the details at the workshop, but hint, it involves spirit animals .

Around the world, robots are being used to minimize the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, by taking on cleaning and food preparation jobs that are considered dangerous for humans. The coronavirus disease that originated in Wuhan, China, has now killed more than 50,000 people and infected more than 980,000 people worldwide. On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared it a pandemic. The virus has disrupted travel worldwide, leading to flight cancellations, quarantines, and other breakdowns in movement and supply chains. Take a look at some of the clever ways robots are used around the world to slow the spread of the coronavirus and help healthcare workers.

We are in the strangest of times, where such challenges invariably bring about both new ideas and some incredible creative thinking. The coronavirus (or Covid-19) pandemic has altered our mindsets toward technology, inasmuch as our relationship with it has become far more accepting and our dependency is increasing exponentially. Most of us have broken our typical routines and behaviors; we are all creatures of habit and yet, in these unprecedented times, our patterns of behavior have been massively disrupted, causing us to re-evaluate our lives and, in some instances, causing erratic behavior such as violence, anxiety or depression. Ultimately, in an unconscious attempt to "put things right," we have created new behavioral patterns and have developed new routines to establish normality in our daily existence within a locked-down nation. Along with our altered mindsets, we have also changed the way we interact with technology.

The COVID-10 pandemic has had many countries and health workers scrambling due to a lack of resources, both in terms of equipment but also in terms of health workers. In addition to the limited availability of testing kits, people conducting tests are already stretched thin as it is that many governments are offloading the screening of potential testing candidates to third-parties. Screening sites like Alphabet's Verily have risen up to the occasion but one research team is testing a simple AI-based app to do what a doctor usually does at first: listening to your cough. The app, cleverly named Coughvid, is a simple web app that can run on any web browser on any device that has a mic. The idea is really simple.