Remember when a few years ago Amazon announced it would revolutionize healthcare, partnering with heavyweights Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan? The idea was to experiment with their own employees and eventually roll out some high-tech-enabled platform to other employers. Using big data, AI algorithms, and various telehealth services, Amazon promised to improve primary and urgent […]
We keep waiting for the big brains in tech to create an artificial intelligence that will either enrich our lives beyond imagination or enslave humanity until the end of time. During the interim, we have to settle for news like this: Meta (née Facebook) just released a new AI system that lets people turn text […]
There’s an ongoing debate about the optimal way for computers to see the world as humans can. Computer vision proposes that computers will digest a video stream in the same way our eyes do and react accordingly. LiDAR proposes that computers see using a form of radar that also supports night vision. Both methods will […]
A few years ago, we wrote an article about how computational chemistry is merging with artificial intelligence technologies to speed up drug discovery. Computational chemistry is a scientific field that uses computer simulations to help solve chemical problems. A related field is computational biology, which uses similar techniques to answer complex questions about biology. Add […]
One of the biggest breakthroughs in healthcare came out in 2021. No, we’re not talking about the covid vaccine. DeepMind, the UK-based AI laboratory owned by Alphabet, released the source code for AlphaFold2. This potential Nobel-winning piece of software can now predict the three-dimensional structure of nearly all proteins, the molecular machines that underpin every […]
One of our core mantras at Nanalyze is that if 95% of professional investment managers can’t beat a broad market benchmark, it’s highly, highly unlikely that an all-night session of LMGTFY will lead you to the next Microsoft or Google. Indeed, a recent study that looked at the performance of more than 64,000 global stocks […]
Have you ever noticed that you can go years without hearing a particular word or name, but then suddenly it keeps popping up in uncanny ways? Lately, for us, it’s been SAP (SAP). No, we’re not talking about saps, as in Fools, but the world’s third-largest software company by revenue. Software developed by the $100 […]
Last month, we wrote about TaskUs stock (TASK), which offers a way to invest in a little light human slavery digital offshoring services. But the company relies heavily on a Philippines-based workforce to power its software-as-a–service (SaaS) model. There are references to artificial intelligence and automation technologies, but cheap or crowdsourced labor isn’t exactly what […]
Here’s a question for all you ESG advocates out there. When you go through and run your numbers that show how “diverse” an organization is, do you classify the employees in emerging market centers as “Asian?” You should, because John in Mumbai and Rosie in Manila are indeed “Asians.” So, isn’t it a problem that […]
In a sign of the times: Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported an 8% decline in quarterly profits for Q1-2022. Don’t worry: We don’t have to start a GoFundMe campaign or anything. The titan of the tech giants still had net profits of more than $16 billion on about $68 billion for the most recent quarter. […]