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• Global IoT Market To Reach $330 Billion By 2025

  01-04-2019 17:39 via technocracy.news
  The Internet of Things in Smart Cities is growing at a rate of almost 23% per year, causing a feeding frenzy of Big Tech firms clamoring for their share. However, this is largely an artificial market created by Big Tech firms themselves, none of whom qualify as legitimate urban planners. ⁃ TN EditorZion Market Research has published a new report titled “IoT in Smart Cities Market by Component (Solution and Service), by Application (Lighting, Traffic, Utilities, Public Safety, En
  
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• AT&T Taps Argonne National Labs For Climate Change Resiliency Project

  01-04-2019 17:08 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats of a feather, flock together. The national labs system, including Argonne, has been densely populated with Technocrats for decades. Together with AT&T they will spend millions on mitigating climate change using sophisticated computer modeling. ⁃ TN EditorAT&T* has engaged the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory for help on a Climate Change Resiliency Project to better anticipate, prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change.  Thi
  
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• AI Can’t Understand Or Duplicate Humor

  01-04-2019 16:35 via technocracy.news
  AI is a machine algorithm and not a human mind. As such, AU does not share any semblance of human emotion, including humor. Every rendering of judgement will be made on sterile machine logic. Should AI ever be left making decisions for humans? ⁃ TN EditorAlexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they don’t get them.
  Linguists and computer scientists say this is something to consider on April Fools’ Day: Humor is what makes humans special. When people try to
  
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• Australia continues to lead in STEM gender equity

  01-04-2019 06:07
  Science & Technology Australia (STA) welcomes the announcement of further investment in gender equity programs in STEM by Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, Karen Andrews MP. Of the $3.4 million announced, $1.8 million will go towards supporting the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) program, and $1.5 million will be invested in a digital […]
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• PhD intern assists in crop-saving research for farmers

  01-04-2019 01:42
  APR.Intern is Australia’s only all sector—all discipline PhD internship program, transforming Australian businesses through university research collaborations. Read about Jessi’s story to learn how an internship could help you. Fruit flies are a major agricultural pest, inflicting almost $300 million a year in lost produce across Australia. To investigate one of the most threatening species, […]
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