Community Colleges working with high schools are seen by the MIT Future of Work study group as critical to the ability to close the skills gap between qualified workers and job opportunities. (Credit: Getty Images) By John P. Desmond, AI…
Twitter is shutting down its experimental app twttr, which the company had used publicly to prototype new features back in 2019. The app was first introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2019, then launched to testers that March….
Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $27.7 billion megadeal. Rumors of a pending deal surfaced last week, causing Slack’s stock…
A Facebook -funded body that the tech giant set up to distance itself from tricky and potentially reputation-damaging content moderation decisions has announced the first bundle of cases it will consider. In a press release on its website the Facebook…
Facebook makes a billion-dollar acquisition, we learn more about Twitter’s Clubhouse-style feature and Moderna applies for emergency authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine. This is your Daily Crunch for November 30, 2020. The big story: Facebook acquires Kustomer for $1B Kustomer…
Pinterest is getting into online events. The company has been spotted testing a new feature that allows users to sign up for Zoom classes through Pinterest, while creators use Pinterest’s class boards to organize class materials, notes and other resources,…
The 2020 MIT Task Force on the Future of Work suggests how the productivity gains of automation can coexist with opportunity for low-wage workers. (Credit: Getty Images) By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Rising productivity brought on by automation…
Twitter prepares to hand out more blue checkmarks, YouTube suspends OANN and Discord is raising a big funding round. This is your Daily Crunch for November 24, 2020. The big story: Twitter will bring back verification Twitter paused its blue…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the AI and the Future of Work Conference from MIT that the ability of cloud computing to harness massive computing power is ‘transformative.’ (Photo by Mohammad Rezaie on Unsplash.) By AI Trends Staff Asked what in the…
The timing is good to modernize legacy IT applications; IT leaders are finding new AI techniques can assist the move to complex mixed, multi-cloud architectures. (Credit: Getty Images) By AI Trends Staff The pandemic era of increased remote work and…
