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IBM and Blue Prism Deliver Digital Workforce Capabilities

By Guest PostDecember 13, 2017Technologyalastair bathgate, blue prism, digital workforce, gene chao, ibm

Walgreens adopts intelligent automation solutions to improve customer service

Armonk, N.Y., Austin TX, and London – 13 Dec 2017: As businesses increasingly recognize the opportunity to increase productivity, improve customer experiences and deliver new products and services through intelligent automation, Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have joined forces to deliver a secure, scalable and easy-to-use Digital Workforce for enterprises worldwide, such as Walgreens. (more…)

Mixed reality and medicine: Surgery with no surprises

By Guest PostDecember 10, 2017Health, Technologychristian woiciechowsky, holoLens, robert amyot, scopis holographic solution, simon kos, surgery, tricorder

In the original Star Trek TV series, the physician on the USS Enterprise, Bones McCoy, would diagnose his patients with just a few waves of his hand-held “tricorder”. Well, medical science has not progressed that far, at least not yet. (more…)

Tarzan Robot Swings on Cables to Monitor Crops in the Field

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2017Science, Technologyai ping hu, geo referenced robot, gtri, jonathan rogers, robot swings, tarzan robot, two armed robot

A two-armed robot named Tarzan, swinging along elevated cables, could allow farmers to monitor fields continuously at lower cost while avoiding interference with plants.

“Swinging – or brachiation – is an energy-efficient way to travel because gravity is doing most of the work,” said Ai-Ping Hu, a senior research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). The lightweight robot has aluminum arms and 3D-printed hands with sensors. The eight-pound robot swings back and forth with one hand on the cable, gaining momentum until its second hand detects the cable overhead and grips it. This swinging motion replicates a gibbon’s movement along a tree limb or vine. (more…)

On the soccer pitch and in the classroom, feminism flourishes in rural India

By Guest PostNovember 19, 2017Technologydelhi day, feminism, franz gastler, rose thomson, rural india, yuwa school

He had a pedigreed education and a corporate job overseas that he wanted to use for good. But while trudging in suit and tie through another 110-degree Delhi day, Franz Gastler had an epiphany that would end up lifting first his own life, then thousands more. (more…)

Fusion Genomics Turns to IBM Cloud to Help Support Advances Designed to Conquer Global Pandemics

By Guest PostNovember 16, 2017Technologyallen lalonde, conquer global pandemics, fusion genomics, ibm cloud, mohammad qadir, vancouver bc

Advancing RNA and DNA genome sequencing for infectious disease diagnostics

Vancouver, BC – 16 Nov 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Vancouver-based company Fusion Genomics selected IBM’s cloud capabilities to help advance Fusion’s ability to detect pandemics before they happen. Fusion Genomics has developed disruptive DNA and RNA technology that it believes can positively identify infectious diseases and enhance the surveillance of emerging pathogens like MERS, SARS, avian flu, and swine flu. (more…)

This 25-year-old doctor is ‘Making What’s Next’ for healthcare screening in Indian schools

By Guest PostNovember 9, 2017Health, Technologycare n grow, healthcare screening, indian schools, meghana kambham, vishakhapatnam

It was a typical balmy September afternoon in the coastal city of Vishakhapatnam. But little did Dr. Meghana Kambham know that her life and potentially those of hundreds of thousands of school children would change that day. (more…)

Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943): is considered one of the most important and most overlooked inventors of all time

By ShamsNovember 3, 2017Media, Science, Technologymost overlooked inventors, nikola tesla

Nikola Tesla(1856.,-1943.);is considered one of the most important and most overlooked inventors of all time pic.twitter.com/gpDs4QJWbN — VESAKAMSITE (@ReiSurvivor) 2. November 2017

IBM Brings Cloud-native Environment to Private Clouds

By Guest PostNovember 2, 2017Technologyarvind Krishna, brad hoover, cloud foundry, cloud native environment, docker containers, ibm, jani itkonen, private clouds, shibani raikar, tyler best

New IBM Cloud Private software – based on containers, microservices and APIs –bridges Public Cloud and traditional IT environments

ARMONK, N.Y.: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new IBM Cloud Private software platform to help companies unlock billions of dollars in technology investment in core data and applications and extend cloud-native tools across public and private clouds. (more…)

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