“More than half plan to buy or increase their usage of Wi-Fi (77%), voice-enabled digital assistants (57%), intelligent home devices (56%), self-service apps (56%), online recommendation apps (56%) and wearable technology (53%). ‘People who haven’t been as comfortable with ecommerce and other digital technology have been pushed to overcome their hesitancy — and this shift…
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How social media feels about the coronavirus
“Expert System specializes in semantics and natural language reading, a branch of AI involving computer systems that attempt to make sense of written language. In doing so, a computer can rapidly analyze vast amounts of the written word — like, for example, a day’s worth of social media posts about the COVID-19 pandemic. On April…
OakNorth: The Agile Bank Getting Money To Small Businesses In The Coronavirus Crisis
“The first step OakNorth Bank took when the Coronavirus began to appear in the U.K. was to review its entire loan book and run reverse stress tests to determine which of the businesses in its portfolio were the most vulnerable. Instead of making assumptions about entire sectors, it assessed the risk of each individual business…
Online Grocery Tees Up A Post-Crisis Market
“According to data from Rakuten Intelligence, online grocery rose dramatically from March 12 through March 15, compared to 2019. The dollar value of orders from full-assortment grocery merchants during that period — for buy online, pickup in store (BOPIS) as well as home delivery, went up 210 percent. The number of orders grew 151 percent….
Facebook’s Data for Good Program Debuts 3 New Types of Maps to Help Fight Covid-19
“Institute for Disease Modeling chair of applied math and senior research manager Daniel Klein wrote in the Newsroom post, ‘Covid-19 has inherent delays that challenge the pace at which we seek to evaluate policy impact toward a measured response. Mobility data from Facebook’s Data for Good program provides a near-real-time view of important correlates of…