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Artificial Intelligence Could Become Your Surgeon’s Best Friend: Why Should You Care?
Machine learning can improve the quality of surgical care while reducing the cost – how is this possible and what should you expect in the next decade?
3-D Printing and the Future of Joint Replacement: “Knee”rly There or Ready For Total Replacement?
What role is 3D printing playing in commercializable knee replacement implants?
Machine Learning and AI Impacts on the Financial Markets
How do investors find and capitalize on alpha generating investment ideas in the stock market when competing with machines that are trading on data in microseconds?
Alibaba Has Something to Say about What You Should Buy and Whom You Should Marry
Its highly personalized app seems to know you better than you know yourself. But is there such a thing as too much personalization?
3D Printing Straighter Smiles
“Align Technology disrupted the orthodontic industry by creating a digital approach to straightening teeth that makes treatment possible for more people than ever. None of what we have been able to achieve would be possible without 3D printing technology”
– Srini Kaza, vice president, product innovation, Align Technology (1)
A Tactical Advantage? Additive Manufacturing in the US Military
How is the United States military utilizing 3-D printing and what is the way forward?
Safilo: 20/20 Vision, Or In Need of Better Sight?
Will a luxury eye manufacturer's vision to leverage 3D printing serve as a competitive advantage for the eyewear leader moving forward, or is the manufacturer at risk of falling victim to the buzz of a technology that is not congruent with its industry or business model?
Amazon Go: The Future of Retail?
In 2018, Amazon launched Amazon Go, a brick-and-mortar store powered by machine learning – with no checkout lines or cashiers. Is this the store of the future?
How Alibaba leverage machine learning to disrupt retail and create pathway to reimagine online-to-offline shopping experiences
Alibaba has leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) to disrupt China Retail Industry for the past 19 years. Nevertheless, 81% of retail consumption in China still comes from the offline channel [1]. Realizing the importance of offline presence, the giant online e-commerce shifts its gear towards Omnichannel strategy. In 2017, Alibaba opened futuristic groceries stores, Hema, offering 30-minute deliveries and facial-recognition payment. In the same year, T-mall pop-up stores are introduced in collaboration with over 100 domestic and international brands, promoting inventive "Retailtainment” shopping experiences [2]. While offline stores around the world are suffering, the giant e-commerce leveraged AI and made a brave move to enter the physical world in an innovative means. Or this will be another significant retail disruption, reinventing offline shopping experiences…