Category: AI
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Managing products of the future – business as usual?
“Managing products of the future” came up when I was thinking of a suitable title for a piece about products that look and feel very different to most products that we see today. Products such as driverless cars and voice assistants popped into my head as examples of products that are likely to dominate our…
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What’s so special about SenseTime?!
Question: What do the following products have in common? Product 1 — Smart glasses worn by Chinese police officers These smart glasses connect to a feed which taps into China’s state database to detect out potential criminals using facial recognition. Officers can identify suspects in a crowd by snapping their photo and matching it to their internal…
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StatusToday (Product Review)
Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) has rapidly become yet another buzzword in the tech space and I’m therefore always on the lookout for AI based applications which add actual customer value. StatusToday could be that kind of app: My quick summary of StatusToday before using it – I think Status Today provides software to help manage teams of…
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Receipt Bank (Product Review)
It isn’t often that one of the apps that I use on a regular basis attracts a large round of funding but it happened recently with Receipt Bank, a London based started which “makes your bookkeeping, faster, easier and more efficient.” Last month, Receipt Bank received a Series B investment worth $50 million from New…
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Toutiao (Product Review)
Fig. 1 – Screenshot of www.toutiao.com/ homepage When I first heard about Toutiao I thought it might be just another news app, this coming one from China. I learned, however, very quickly that Toutiao is much more than just a news app; at the time of writing, Toutiao has more than 700 million users in total, with…
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