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More Robots: Google's "Atlas" Robot Mimics "Karate Kid"; Flying Defibrillator "Ambulance Drone" Unveiled; Fed Has No Answer

MishTalk

The creator, Alec Momont of TU Delft’s Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, said that 20% of people can operate a defibrillator without instruction and the number rises when they have prompts from trained personnel. Some 800,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest in the EU every year, and only 8% survive," Momont explains.

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The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain

Harvard Business

Cut to Bangalore, India, and meet Kala, a middle-aged mother of two sitting in front of her computer in the makeshift home office that she shares with her husband. Sometimes she’s helping tech companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft train the algorithms that will curate online content.

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How I Ditched the Fear of Being Seen and Launched my REAL Business

Consulting Matters

The team was poring over the guest research when the most senior operations and creative executives looked at each other across the table and said at the same time, “You know what – we need to be a DISNEY theme park.” But like everyone else who operates in their zone of genius, I blew it off and minimized it.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. The challenge of experimenting at an organization committed to perfection. The SFO project began in January 2015.

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