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Autonomous On-demand

Consumer expectations seem to accelerate at the same pace as technological innovation. Convenience, one of the key dimensions of product quality, is at the heart of this trend, especially in the transportation sector. The development and mass production of autonomous vehicles is almost always at the top of everyone’s…

Energy: All in on AI

It’s a scary time to be in the oil and gas industry. As over three billion people worldwide hunker down at home to help curb the spread of COVID-19, global oil demand has dropped by a third in mere months, with prices hitting a 20-year low. Meanwhile, the glut…

Science and the Shining City on the Hill

The COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything we’ve experienced before. Not because it is, at least as yet, the worst crisis we’ve experienced. But because it affects each of us throughout the world, all at the same time. Some parts of the world were entirely removed from events like the…

Built For You: The Cities of Tomorrow

FINDING A PLACE to call home matters. It’s human nature to want a place where you feel like you belong, although you’d be hard-pressed to find one city today that checks off all the boxes—no place is perfect. Yet no matter where we choose to plant our roots, place…

The Pandemic Pivot

THE IDEA DIDN’T start with any one team member in particular. “It was a few weeks before quarantine started, around when we were all realizing that coronavirus was really going to be a major crisis,” recalls Milton Lopez, the head of SparkCognition Labs. “So then a bunch of us…

AI vs. The (Next) Pandemic

WHICH VIEW IS right? Maybe all of them. It’s true that AI healthcare tools did little to prevent the initial, rapid spread of COVID-19. But it’s also true that AI has been used to effectively respond to the crisis ever since. AI tools spotted the current outbreak and predicted…

Top Drone: The Future of Fighter Pilots

In 1986, the film Top Gun debuted as a straight-faced depiction of competition among Navy fighter jocks at the pinnacle of American Cold War airpower. Thirty years on, in the iPhone era, the film’s contest between two rival aviators — Tom Cruise’s aggressive but unpredictable “Maverick” and Val Kilmer’s…

Hollywood AI: Her

In this series, we’ll look at a piece of popular art and ask whether its fictional portrayal of technology could exist. First up, the 2013 movie by writer-director Spike Jonze, Her. The Best Picture Oscar-nominated and Best Original Screenplay winning film features actor Joaquin Phoenix as a nerdy mustached…

The Lenovo Way: Yolanda Conyers on Transforming Corporate Culture

On a hot afternoon in August, Yolanda Conyers is shown around the headquarters of Austin tech firm SparkCognition. As the tour moves from one department to the next, she chats with employees about their various projects. A group of engineers working for SkyGrid, the AI company’s new joint venture…

SparkCognition Combats COVID-19 With In-House PPE

Five years ago during his highly watched TED Talk, Bill Gates stated that the world was not ready for the next epidemic. “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather than a war. Not missiles,…