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EvoNexus, UC San Diego Team On FinTech Efforts

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San Diego- and Orange County-based startup incubator EvoNexus and the University of California San Diego's Rady School of Management announced this morning that the two are in a new partnership, aimed at creating a new generation of FinTech startups.

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X·CON 2018: Photos From Three Innovation Days in November

Xconomy

View the Slideshow On November 4-6, Xconomy organized a meeting of the minds—an elite gathering of leaders in technology, business, healthcare, education, and energy—to discuss and demonstrate the key trends in their fields, heading into next year.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

These days, Thrun seems just as excited by another imprint he’s made on the still-forming AV industry—not as a researcher, but as an entrepreneur in online education. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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A Startup CEO Visits Cuba in Transition

Xconomy

As a startup CEO, I also went wondering whether and when Spare5 might engage Cuba and Cubans—as suppliers of the human insights we source, and customers who need high-quality data to train artificial intelligence engines. The short answer: not any time in the foreseeable future.

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Xconomy Roadmap 2018: Top 15 Innovation Areas to Watch

Xconomy

As readers know, we strive to cover a wide range of innovation sectors, from tech and life sciences to healthcare and education—all with a mix of on-the-ground reporting, daily news stories, in-depth features and analysis, and events and conferences.

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Is Technology Crucial for Innovation?

Xconomy

This cutting-edge human capital is the true measure of any region’s innovative progress and potential, as opposed to the number of start-ups or licenses. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making astonishing progress. Many of the most successful AI systems are based on what’s called “deep learning.”

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As A.I. Takes Off, We Need a Plan to Deal with Societal Disruption

Xconomy

My response is something of a “cheat” in that it relates to artificial intelligence (AI), a technology that has been poised to take off next year for the past several decades and a topic about which I have not written in decades. As an Xconomist, I have been asked to predict what technology might really take off in 2018.