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Without a doubt, uncertainty and unpredictability will continue to increase. Whether you‘re a bio pharma company grappling with temperature excursions, or an automaker relying on critical assembly-line components that only China produces, you’re bound to be affected. The amount of...

Robot manufacturer Boston Dynamics has found a new job for its robot dog Spot Mini amidst the coronavirus outbreak: Modified Spot robots, outfitted with iPads, are now letting doctors walk into the rooms of coronavirus patients without risking infection. Hospitals...

Reducing supply chain costs is a task that many companies have to deal with on a permanent basis. In addition, customers are demanding ever shorter delivery times. Supply chain management worldwide ensures that the right goods are in the right...

Thinking machines think just like us—but only up to a point. IN THE SUMMER of 2009, the Israeli neuroscientist Henry Markram strode onto the TED stage in Oxford, England, and made an immodest proposal: Within a decade, he said, he...

Could this neural network really be better at predicting personality traits than humans? A team of researchers from the Higher School of Economics University and Open University in Moscow, Russia claim they have demonstrated that an artificial intelligence can make accurate personality...

Disease diagnosis, drug discovery, robot delivery—artificial intelligence is already powering change in the pandemic’s wake. That’s only the beginning. ON NEW YEAR’S Eve of last year, the artificial intelligence platform BlueDot picked up an anomaly. It registered a cluster of...

“A human user of the artificial eye will gain night vision capability.” Researchers say they’ve created a proof-of-concept bionic eye that could surpass the sensitivity of a human one. “In the future, we can use this for better vision prostheses...

The key to good AI is solid data, and that’s been tough to come by in a global health crisis. In late January, more than a week before Covid-19 had been given that name, hospitals in Wuhan, China, began testing a new method...

Beijing is accelerating its bid for global leadership in key technologies, planning to pump more than a trillion dollars into the economy through the rollout of everything from wireless networks to artificial intelligence. In the masterplan backed by President Xi...

What is the current state of best practice in procurement? And what should organizations do to move to the next level? IPG, in partnership with is the world’s largest independent spend management company JAGGAER, is inviting Chief Procurement Officers and other...