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IOTA’s Dominik Schiener is live at TNW2019 – tune in now!

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 11:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Welcome to the first day of TNW Conference 2019, our flagship technology festival in Amsterdam. We’re about to kick off our livestream at the eToro Studio, where we’ll be chatting about the future of cryptocurrency and blockchain with some of the industry’s leading experts. Joining us first is Dominik Schiener, co-founder of IoT-focused distributed ledger IOTA. Tune in to the eToro Studio for our chat with him at 14:00PM (CEST) sharp by following this link. Up next are: 14:20PM (CEST): Stephane Ifrah – Co-founder and CEO, NapoleonX 14:40PM (CEST): Gali Benartzi – Co-founder, Bancor 15:00PM (CEST): Yoni Assia – CEO and…

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The Mill’s Rama Allen is live at TNW2019 – tune in now!

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 11:40 am
Posted In: Around the Web, TNW2019


Welcome to the second day of TNW Conference 2019, our flagship technology festival in Amsterdam. Up next on the Art of Tech stage is Rama Allen, Executive Creative Director at London-based VFX and creative studio The Mill. Allen is an interactive artist, and futurist. He was included in Adweek’s Creative 100 that listed him as one of the 10 Visual Artists changing the way we see the world. He has created works for IBM, Showtime, HBO, Playstation, and has two Emmy nominations for his True Blood and Vikings title sequences. For his talk titled ‘The Outer Dark,’ Allen will move…

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AI avatars could be the next generation’s favorite entertainers

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 11:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Insider


Last year, Netflix reportedly published a whopping 1,500 hours of original content. And with the launch of streaming services from Apple and Disney, the on-demand video market is getting very competitive. Media houses and companies are already looking towards the next solution for producing content to keep up with the trend: AI avatars. Last year in November, Chinese state-run media company Xinhua debuted an AI anchor that looked exactly like its real-life counterpart Zhang Zhao. The company said that the avatar speaks both in Mandarin and English. Xinhua said at that time that AI anchors are now officially a part…

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How to combat human trafficking with data science

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 11:27 am
Posted In: Around the Web, TNW2019


Modern slavery is unfortunately still part of our global reality, with more than 40 million people believed to be victims of human trafficking around the world. It’s up to governments, organizations, and society as a whole to battle this evil – and as we heard at TNW2019 Conference, data science can help. Speaking at the Conference, Jill Coster van Voorhout (a PhD at Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA)), Jeroen Hermens (Financial Specialist at the Netherlands‘ Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment), and Raila Abas (an intelligence specialist at ABN AMRO Bank) described how their institutions are collaborating to tackle the $150…

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This cool gas technology could kill 99.9% of deadly germs in the air

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


You can live without food for three weeks and without water for up to three days. But you can’t live without air for more than three short minutes. It’s not just the abundance of air that matters – the quality is essential, too. Unfortunately, air can be contaminated with dangerous germs known as airborne pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses. Airborne diseases are very easily transmitted, and can result in respiratory illness that can be life threatening. It’s therefore no wonder that outbreaks of airborne infectious diseases are a major public health concern, and that researchers are working hard to…

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