1-800-Flowers And IBM Watson Take On The Future Of Gifting, And The Future Of Relationships
How will machine learning impact gifting as a retail business? 1-800-Flowers is partnering with Watson to innovate their customer experience.
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Betting on machine learning to save lives
Machine learning is disrupting traditional industries such as transportation (ride-hailing) and financial services (credit scoring, robo-advisory). Can it also transform the traditionally human-intensive healthcare industry too?
Dangerous Innovation – Defense Distributed and the Democratization of Weapons Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing shows tremendous potential for commercial and humanitarian applications, but it also presents ethical questions and the potential for unintended consequences.
How unwanted crowdsourcing can be the difference between life and death for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and leads to Open Innovation in an insurgent war
This article explores the negative effects of undesired crowdsourcing and how it has been used in the battle field to yield catastrophic results.
Payment Fraud: The Hidden Cost of Doing Business and How First Data is Using Machine Learning to Protect Merchants from Fraud Losses
As the threat of payment fraud grows in the digital era, First Data has developed its own machine learning capabilities to improve the process of threat detection.
Printing a Solution to the Global Housing Crisis
Non-profit New Story will employ additive manufacturing to provide affordable housing in underdeveloped and disaster-struck regions.
A Tech Titan in Healthcare: All Eyes on Deep Learning
In the realm of deep learning, your eyes can be a window to your health. Google aims to leverage machine learning for high tech healthcare solutions.
3D-printed razor handles – the best a man can get?
With Razor maker, Gillette is one of the first brands of big FMCG companies that bets on mass customization through 3D printing. It’s a bold but much-needed move to revert the trend of losing market share and declining brand loyalty.
Building the Worlds You Want To See: Lego Calls on You To Co-create
In an increasingly digital world, Lego, the famous plastic construction toy company, continues to generate interest in physical toys and to build brand loyalty by leveraging crowdsourcing and user co-creation for popular product innovations.
SEPHORA: Developments in Machine Learning and Augmented Reality towards customer personalization.
Sephora as the leader in technological innovation within the retail industry has made significant advances in using data science to advance product personalization and customization. This essay surveys recent developments and poses questions to the challenges in inventory management and production technology the personalization trend entails.