SKF has acquired Presenso Ltd., a company that develops and deploys artificial intelligence (AI)-based software for improving machine performance. Presenso's AI capability enables production plants to find and act on anomalies that were previously undetectable, automatically and without the need to employ additional data scientists. Presenso's solution is used by industrial plants to increase production output and revenue by reducing the incidence of unplanned asset downtime. Presenso, located in Haifa, Israel, built its solution based on innovations in the field of Automated Machine Learning or AutoML. AutoML accelerates the rate of AI deployment, enabling plants to scale industrial analytics across a large asset base.

Protesters and activists from UltraViolet stormed the NBC headquarters in New York City demanding Comcast and NBC executives take action and responsibility for allegations made in Ronan Farrow's book'Catch and Kill.' NBC News Digital employees have formed a union, accusing management of mishandling "serious incidents of sexual misconduct" that have created an onslaught of negative attention for the Peacock Network. "We love working at NBC News Digital. But no organization is perfect, and there are serious issues that keep the company from being as great as it can be," the NBC News Digital employees said in a statement Wednesday announcing their partnering with the NewsGuild of New York. But the digital employees aren't solely fed up with management botching sexual misconduct scandals. "A company with such incredible resources can and should do more to close gender and race wage gaps, address chronic understaffing, meaningfully prioritize diversity, promote transparency, and offer job protections," the statement continued.

In the Hype Cycle for Data Science and Machine Learning 2019 (available to Gartner subscribers), Gartner states, "much of advanced anomaly …

Cognex has announced the acquisition of SUALAB, a Korean Provider of Deep Learning Machine Vision Solutions.

The most well-known stories are about Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) taking over our decisions, rendering us humans obsolete, or eradicating us all together. We have HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey and the terminators as good examples. But the most horrifying story I ever read was the one about the Paperclip maximizer. I will share it here with you and, just in the interests of Halloween, I've added a little bit of flavor. Now imagine it is a cold and dark night.

How close have we really come to the world in the movie Blade Runner, Rick Deckard, replicants and off-world colonies? Incessant rain deluges LA, creating mirrored surfaces on every street and decaying building. CRISPR technology has now entered human trial phase and could begin to re-code and improve human DNA in 2019. Flying cars: Several designs have entered production Police in Dubai started trials in 2018. Autonomous vehicles: Tesla is probably the best known example of US-based vehicles.

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