It used to be that the big beat the small--today the fast beat the slow. Fast teams keep their talent engaged, ship faster, and beat the competition to market. Microservices let you increase your engineering speed and agility. Using microservices allowed SoundCloud to reduce a standard release cycle from 65 days all the way down to 16. How did they accomplish this?

The next Industrial Revolution is upon us, and scientists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers are warning of an imminent paradigm shift in the future of work. In partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations, VICE talks to industry leaders and laborers to learn how radical developments in automation and artificial intelligence are set to change the world of work as we know it. From the food we eat to the clothes we wear, VICE's Future of Work explores technology's threat to the American worker and the ways we are responding. Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews

In Japan, one restaurant is exploring artificial intelligence (AI) robotics technology to enable paralyzed employees to remotely pilot robotic waiters. JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and Ford are hosting virtual career fairs tailored to the needs of neurodiverse candidates. Enterprise Rent-A-Car integrated braille-reader technology into its reservations system for blind employees. Using AI to increase accessibility at work is one of the Gartner Top 10 strategic predictions for 2020 and beyond. The predictions examine how technology is changing the definition of what it means to be human, and IT leaders must be prepared to adapt in a changing environment.

A new generation of smart speakers greatly improves on the device's sound quality. A new generation of smart speakers greatly improves on the device's sound quality. As the audio engineer for the Tiny Desk concert series, of course I obsess over how our concerts are experienced -- so when I watch someone pull up a session on their smartphone, laptop or tablet, with those tiny and tinny speakers, my heart sinks a little. I'm thrilled people love these concerts as much as we love making them, but they sound so much better when played on a decent sound system, or on headphones. Sure, the concerts sound OK on a mono phone speaker, but you'd be amazed by what you're missing once you've heard the audio mix on a device that can actually reproduce the low and high ends of the frequency spectrum, where all the chest-thumping bass and shimmering cymbals live.

A Honeywell smart thermostat is seen above. If you compare the inside of a modern home to one from about 25 years ago, you're going to notice some stark differences -- not just the phone book on the kitchen counter. Rapid advancements in tech over the past two decades have had an impact on everything from the way we communicate to the conveniences of home life. While you expect some household staples to change from generation to generation, things that were part of an average home for decades are now unnecessary. That's because just about any common household gadget can be replaced with a smarter device.

In Japan, one restaurant is exploring artificial intelligence (AI) robotics technology to enable paralyzed employees to remotely pilot robotic waiters. JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and Ford are hosting virtual career fairs tailored to the needs of neurodiverse candidates. Enterprise Rent-A-Car integrated braille-reader technology into its reservations system for blind employees. Using AI to increase accessibility at work is one of the Gartner Top 10 strategic predictions for 2020 and beyond. The predictions examine how technology is changing the definition of what it means to be human, and IT leaders must be prepared to adapt in a changing environment.

Artificial Intelligence is becoming more common place with enterprises today. Fueled by the popularity and success of applications like Netflix, Amazon, Alexa etc. which use AI technologies to a considerable degree, companies are vying with each other to emerge on top. But there are a number of areas that need to be optimized before the success can be ensured. How do companies ensure that the technology is well-governed, scalable, cost-effective & trust worthy? The answer is having a well-defined strategy in place which can be derived by studying the enterprises who are succeeding with it. We have worked with Fortune 500 enterprises, in defining their strategy and delivering successful & cutting-edge analytics and AI projects.

"Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?" How many times throughout the Harry Potter series does Hermione bug Harry and Ron to read the enormous tome Hogwarts, A History? Hint: it's a lot. How many nights do the three of them spend in the library, reading through every book they can find to figure out who Nicolas Flamel is, or how to survive underwater, or preparing for their O.W.L.s? The mistake they're all making is to try to read everything themselves. Remember when you were in school and stumbled upon the CliffsNotes summary of that book you never read but were supposed to write an essay about? That's basically what text summarization does: provide the CliffsNotes version for any large document.

For decades machines have been able to understand simple musical features like beats per minute. Now AI is boosting their abilities to the point that they can not only figure out what particular genre of music is playing, but also how to appropriately dance to it. It's obvious that the dancing style in an EDM club is very different from the way people waltz in a hotel ballroom. And even if you're no country music fan, your foot may tap and your head softy sway when you hear the nostalgic "Country Roads" chorus. How our bodies respond to diverse musical stimuli almost seems instinctual -- how to teach that to a machine?

A new trove of highly classified leaked documents from the Chinese communist government shows how Beijing operates their widespread concentration camps where they reportedly have millions of Muslims and other minorities locked-up. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) reports that the leaked documents reveal that "Chinese police are guided by a massive data collection and analysis system that uses artificial intelligence to select entire categories of Xinjiang residents for detention." The manual obtained by ICIJ gives detailed instructions on everything from deciding when to let detainees use the toilet to how to keep the camps' existence totally secret. "The China Cables reveal how the system is able to amass vast amounts of intimate personal data through warrantless manual searches, facial recognition cameras, and other means to identify candidates for detention, flagging for investigation hundreds of thousands merely for using certain popular mobile phone apps. The documents detail explicit directives to arrest Uighurs with foreign citizenship and to track Xinjiang Uighurs living abroad, some of whom have been deported back to China by authoritarian governments. Among those implicated as taking part in the global dragnet: China's embassies and consulates."