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#VanLife, cashless society and facial recognition on The Future, This Week
This week: #vanlife during the pandemic, going cashless and no more facial recognition.
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Innovating through the crisis with IBM’s Bob Lord
How has global tech giant IBM responded to the COVID-19 pandemic?
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‘You can’t eat that’ @ work
WeWork declares meat is off the menu at all of its company events.
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TFTW on: Why aren’t we prepared to rethink prisons?
Perhaps it's time we looked at alternatives to the traditional ways in which we incarcerate people.
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Watson’s health problems
IBM’s medical artificial intelligence program Watson for Oncology is merely rudimentary.
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Hype and cash are muddying public understanding of quantum computing
Quantum computing is being described as "just around the corner". Is it?