Optical character recognition (OCR), or the conversion of images of handwritten or printed text into machine-readable text, is a science that dates back to the early ’70s. But algorithms have long str

Cryptocurrency investment is among the top five investor threats for 2020, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA).The NASAA, the oldest international investor pr

The AI talent grab is real. This year alone, Pinterest CTO Vanja Josifovski jumped ship to Airbnb, while Pinterest hired Walmart CTO Jeremy King to head up its engineering team. Moreover, all the big

Driving a massive year for store closures were factors both dramatic and mundane. Retail bankruptcy liquidations ticked up, adding thousands to the year's count, while other retailers quietly tink

Biologists and conservationists across the world have got their hard drives stuffed with millions of camera trap photos and it’s a time consuming process to go through all the images. Google has there

Apparel businesses don't look too merry and bright this holiday season. So far this year, 11 of the 17 major retail bankruptcies were filed by companies that mostly sell apparel, footwear or

Gartner believes that blockchain technology is the perfect match for the IoT and will help it to overcome some of its biggest problems.Blockchain is synonymous with security. The IoT, on the other han

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