By Nadia Zaifulizan We are currently living in a gig economy.This means that more and more people are getting paid for the service that they provide, but usually not in a permanent employment setting. In this economy, employment is usually…
By Nadia Zaifulizan While we cruise through the first half of August and continue the journey nearing this month’s season end, we look at a brief compilation of the 5 latest technology updates, this week. 1.Apple is suing Corellium for…
Machine Learning is a form of applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) that provides the ability for systems to automatically learn and improve from experience without explicitly being programmed to do so. So what kind of consequences does this mean for humanity?
By Nadia Zaifulizan This month, reports surfaced on the lawsuit against IBM for its hiring and firing, in particular the allegations of age discrimination practices. Yes, at the time of writing it has only been the first day of the…
By Nadia Zaifulizan A few days ago, Microsoft announced its $1 billion investment for OpenAI.If you are not yet in the loop, OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company, founded by Elon Musk. It was established to advance digital…
By Nadia Zaifulizan The Amazon Dilemma The next 48 hours is the official Amazon Prime Day. It’s that time of the year that Amazon is promoting as a special event where large number of items are put on sale, major…
By Farahdiba Abdullah Robotic & Cognitive Automation (RCA) is defined as the combination between robotic and cognitive worlds. Robotic automation is the most basic form of machine intervention to perform rules-based work without human involvement. Meanwhile, the cognitive world (Artificial…
Smart cities focus on existing and providing quality services and facilities in the best available level of efficiency, resource-savings, healthy environment, while fulfilling the needs of its occupants and visitors. This is often done through the use of data and…
By Nadia Zaifulizan Facebook Struggles with Deepfake Decision-making After the Deepfake video of political figure Nancy Pelosi went viral on social media, it took Facebook a while to fact-check it, flag it, before unexpectedly deciding to allow the video to…
By Nadia Zaifulizan The power of intelligence and autonomous technical systems are unequivocal. In line with its growth there are also increasing interests in establishing societal guidelines that contain intelligence systems to serve humanity’s values and ethical principles. In this…