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But the past few years have only highlighted the limits ofcurrent AI technologies. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Aouns message: to stay relevant in this new economic reality, higher education needs a dramatic realignment. What makes artificial intelligence different? AI is not the first technology to change the way we work. In every instance, old jobs were destroyed as new ones were created. In the 1960s, there was little trust for the first ATM machines....

Kofi Senaya, Director of Product at Clearbridge Mobile Understanding a users needs is the bedrock of great design. The Smithsonian Museum maps out its visitors journey across multiple channels and touchpoints of engagement. What is a journey map? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The quest to understand the target user or customer is not new or specific to the digital landscape. Disney laid out their omnichannel touchpoint strategy with this map in 1957....

Storms on Jupiter are among the most powerful squalls seen anywhere in the Solar System. Like familiar lightning here at home, lightning on Jupiter produces both visible light and radio waves. Once every 53 days, the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter dips down low above the planet. 40% off TNW Conference! The first of these a deep clouds composed ofwater. The second are mammoth thunderhead columns that form from upswelling of air....

Dark matter makes up 85% of all matter in the Universe, but astronomers have never seen it. The nature of this mysterious something remains largely unknown. But, astronomers and physicists know something (and a LOT of it) is out there. Without dark matter, galaxies would tear apart, and clusters of galaxies would fly to pieces. This gravitational bond between dark matter and normal matter is how it was first detected....

Look at the short video below. Can you answer the following questions: Which object caused the ball to change direction? Where will the ball go next? What would happen if you removed the bat from the scene? You might consider these questions very dumb. But interestingly, todays most advancedartificial intelligence systemswould struggle to answer them. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. But for current artificial intelligence technology, theyre two fundamentally different disciplines....

As a good JavaScript developer, you strive to write clean, healthy, and maintainable code. You solve interesting challenges that, while unique, dont necessarily require unique solutions. You may not know it, but youve used a JavaScriptdesign pattern. Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Read: [Should designers learn how to code?] Called Netscape Navigator, it could only display static HTML at the time....

I dont know about you, but Im starting to lose my mind. Isolation is even more difficult for people without this punch in of support. Its a plate full of anxiety, isnt it? What many of us are living through now is not that different from what astronauts experience. They also fear for their lives, for their future. And for months at a time, they cant go out or be with their families....

But is more automation always a good thing? Social media automation helpssocial mediamanagers be more efficient in their job. you’re free to bulk-schedule your content. you’re able to cross-post quickly and easily. With a bit of code, you’ve got the option to probably do a whole lot more. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Lets dig deeper into a few of them. Most importantly, they have different cut-off points or preview windows for the captions you write....

Then the coronavirus arrived. Eurovision was sadly canceled but the organizers of the AI song contest bravely chose to go ahead. And TNW bagged an exclusive ticket to the show. We have everything here, promised host Lieven Scheire. Everything for a wonderful Eurovision evening. They even had a green room, where the stars mingled backstage. 40% off TNW Conference! A friend of mine said, is there a team from Austalia?...

The digital design industry is maturing. We can aim for digital classics instead of one-hit wonders. Industrial design is the poster child of longevity. The timeless charm of aVespascooter. The iconic contours of aCoca-Colabottle. The elegant angles of anEameslounge chair. Will there ever be a digital design equivalent to the ageless wonders of the industrial design world? Can a user interface endure the decades like aLeicacamera? Unlikely, it seems to be the answer....

Long ago, I built a web app for an enterprise (200k+ employees). Feedback on the web app prompted me to do an experiment. Would people like it better? Would it be more useful? But the story is much bigger than that. Chatbots have so much potential! And beyond: Will chatbots one day replace all traditional apps? The company I worked for had an office for around 2,000 employees in the middle of downtown Tel Aviv....

Being user researchers, our strength lies in planning research and interviewing real users of our product. The entire research structure is an elaborate process. But, is observation the only critical responsibility while conducting the research? Observation is just one half of the puzzle we are trying to solve. The other half and often neglected one isnote-taking. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Note-taking is a basic User Research skill...

Whats a digital marketer to do? AI is here to help. Marketing jobs that consist primarily of repetitive tasks or data analysis are going to be at risk. But creativity remains in the hands of humans, even if beauty is in the eye of the algorithm. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Heres why: Farewell, A/B testing Nothing validates a marketers gut instinct like A/B testing. Ive completed thousands of A/B, multivariate, and Taguchi tests to understand which headline or image works best....