On (most) Fridays I post here a roundup of interesting things I’ve read and/or posted on social media since my last roundup, generally stories about emerging technologies, experiential activations, interactive art, advances in scientific research, and other things I find interesting.
An inside look at the Olympics opening ceremony world-record drone show:
Image: Intel
Google’s Deepmind AI team developed a deep learning training system that allows it to transfer learning from one domain to another by multitasking on multiple games at once:
Image: Deepmind
A group of artists attended panels at the World Economic Forum and illustrated their concepts of future jobs based on the topics discussed:
Image: Florian de Gesincourt, Happy Finish; Courtesy of AKQA
Gotta love when there’s a train stopped at every station as far as the eye can see…
Image: Josiah Hobson
Harvard researchers are pioneering a way to refurbish lungs and other organs for use as transplants, to help alleviate the massive backlog of patients waiting for donors:
Image: KEN RICHARDSON
Google and its health-tech subsidiary Verily developed an AI algorithm that can predict heart disease by evaluating a scan of the patient’s eye:
Image: Google / Verily Life Sciences
Looking for a smart city? Grab your skis – resorts like Vail have been tracking reams of data on visitors for years:
Image: Wolfgang Moroder / Wikimedia
UK insurance company Hiscox set up a honeypot server and tracked attacks to it on a billboard to highlight the danger of cyber crime:
Image: AdAge
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs plans to transform a blighted and underutilized part of Toronto’s waterfront into a smarter smart city experiment called Quayside:
Image: Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto
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