"What fire was to the cavemen, artificial intelligence will be to us." One industry participant explained the influence of disruptive technology on a staid industry in this way. AI is changing the stock market game. While people remain an important part of the trading environment, artificial reasoning is becoming increasingly important. According to a new study by Coalition, a U.K. research group, electronic exchanges account for about 45 percent of money values swapping revenues. While hedge funds are mistrustful of automation, many of them develop AI-powered analysis to create investment ideas and build portfolios.

NVIDIA demonstrates AI tool to tilt a whole head so that it appears you are looking at somebody ... [ ] instead of a camera off to the side Video conference has become the new business travel, thanks to Covid-19, and we're going to do more of it even after the virus. Thanks to the virus, though, more research is going into improving that, including a host of new AI techniques demonstrated as part of NVIDIA NVDA Maxine, a platform of AI video tools NVIDIA is licencing to partners. The ability of AI to help with video compression and upresolution is growing. Already, several tools to increase the resolution of old video are on the market, and in not too long, we'll be watching old SD TV content in HD on a regular basis, and the surface has not been scratched. While Maxine offers AI based upscaling, video conferencing can make use of more than just video compression techniques.

Robotics enthusiast and funny person Simone Giertz returns so we can once again laugh at the takeover of the machines. This time, Giertz has built a hair-washing robot. We don't want to give too much away, but let's just say we're glad we're bald. For you techies out there, Giertz writes in the YouTube description that she built the scalp-cleaning gizmo with "two Hitec servo motors, Actobotics from Servocity, an Arduino UNO and a 6V battery pack."