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Brain Corp. Wins Expanded Implementation With Sam's Club

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San Diego-based artificial intelligence and robotics company Brain Corp says it is expanding its deployment of its technology to Sam's Club. According to Brain Corp., Sam's Club is adding 372 autonomous floor scrubbers, which are manufactured by Brain Corp partner Tennant Company, beginning this fall. Brain Corp.

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GoShare Takes On Crowdsourced Package Delivery

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San Diego-based GoShare , which operates an online marketplace for truck and van owners to offer up delivery of packages, is looking to help retailers better deliver packages as the holiday season has created a surge of online orders and delivery.

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Price Check on Aisle 3: Retailers Turn to Robots to Manage Inventory

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Bossa Nova, along with San Francisco-based Simbe Robotics, is among a group of tech companies that are using robotics and artificial intelligence. “If it isn’t on the shelf, the shopper can’t buy it,” Skaff adds. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Social Media Cyber Threats: 3 Predictions for 2018

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Cyber attackers see that organizations are willing to pay the ransom, so they’ve upped their asking price. And while organizations may be paying a higher ransom, the cost of these attacks are going down, due to artificial intelligence tools making these campaigns infinitely easier.

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Brain Corp.’s First Product is a Brain for Floor-Scrubbing Machines

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Headed by the computational neuroscientist Eugene Izhikevich, the company maintained a low profile at Qualcomm’s San Diego headquarters until 2013, when Brain Corp. stands to gain valuable experience toward the development of autonomous, machine-learning systems and self-driving cars. engineers, Duffy said.

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Price Check on Aisle 3: Groceries Use AI, Devices to Battle Amazon

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If a shopper interacts with technology in a typical grocery store, it’s usually at the very end—as they are paying for their items. That could be about to change, though.

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Cloudera, Hortonworks Plan To Merge As $5.2B Cloud Data Platform

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Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2