Artificial Intelligence Gets a Lot Smarter – Barron’s

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Artificial Intelligence has become a hot topic based on the achievements of the biggest computing giants: Alphabet, GOOGL -0.1595412112196279% Alphabet Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD926.18 -1.48 -0.1595412112196279% /Date(1503090000160-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1299449 AFTER HOURS USD925.32 -0.86 -0.09285452071951457% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 59094 P/E Ratio 33.55445017263054 Market Cap 635639773709.218 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1373290 More quote details and news GOOGL in Your Value Your Change Short position Microsoft, MSFT 0.12430939226519337% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD72.49 0.09 0.12430939226519337% /Date(1503090000217-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 18161839 AFTER HOURS USD72.41 -0.08 -0.11036004966202234% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1127454 P/E Ratio 26.848148148148148 Market Cap 558335661300.138 Dividend Yield 2.1520209684094356% Rev. per Employee 720927 More quote details and news MSFT in Your Value Your Change Short position Facebook, FB 0.2995626385477203% Facebook Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD167.41 0.5 0.2995626385477203% /Date(1503090000280-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14595414 AFTER HOURS USD167.4 -0.01 -0.005973358819664297% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 667187 P/E Ratio 38.134396355353076 Market Cap 485879579466.552 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1945860 More quote details and news FB in Your Value Your Change Short position and others.

But technology keeps evolving and it is time for AI to take the next step in its evolution, becoming more accessible to businesses large and small.

That charge is being led by Veritone VERI -4.141291108404385% Veritone Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD7.87 -0.34 -4.141291108404385% /Date(1503090000338-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 69971 AFTER HOURS USD7.87 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 60 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 117451876.61087 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 76554.1 More quote details and news VERI in Your Value Your Change Short position (ticker: VERI), which went public in May, and which claims to offer a platform that can be used to run AI tasks in a variety of areas, including understanding natural language and analyzing video, for clients from law firms to media companies.

Competing with Veritone is the 800-lb gorilla of cloud computing, Amazon.com AMZN -0.21862019425965834% Amazon.com Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD958.47 -2.1 -0.21862019425965834% /Date(1503090000209-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3210495 AFTER HOURS USD956.5 -1.97 -0.2055359061838138% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 103183 P/E Ratio 243.26649746192894 Market Cap 460429809206.396 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 439731 More quote details and news AMZN in Your Value Your Change Short position (AMZN), whose Amazon Web Services, or AWS, already claims to be the largest outlet for AI. Amazon provides AI capability on top of the raft of other services it offers clients in the cloud.

Industry veterans smell the opportunity in this new wave of AI. Billionaire software pioneer Tom Siebel has a new venture that he says is doing some key work applying AI for clients in industries from energy to manufacturing to health care.

This vector of AI is unstoppable, Siebel tells Barrons.

WHEN IT FIRST EMERGED on the scene, AI was strictly the province of large companies such as Alphabets (GOOGL) Google, as this magazine reported in 2015 (Watch Out Intel, Here Comes Facebook, October 31, 2015). That is because AI has typically required both massive computing facilities and access to vast amounts of data, which only the largest companies could provide.

More and more, though, its becoming accessible to smaller companies. Amazons director of deep learning, Matt Wood, is an M.D. and Ph.D. who worked on the Human Genome Project and is now focused on the many customers doing various AI tasks on Amazons AWS, from furniture maker Herman Miller to Kelley Blue Book to the American Heart Association. In the last five years [AI] has gone from being a really academic preoccupation to addressing customer needs, he says.

Still, Veritone founder and CEO Chad Steelberg believes hes discerned a weakness in Amazon and Googles approach to AI that is an opportunity for his company.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TODAY means having a computer pore through reams of data looking for patterns. The machine on its own learns the rules of natural language grammar, say, or the difference between a picture of a cat on the internet versus that of a person or a car.

Steelberg, 46, says the problem is that no single algorithm used by a machine can be trained to sufficient accuracy. But train enough engines to work together and you can get high levels of accuracy, he says, noting that Veritone has spent time striking deals with researchers who each have an algorithm or a collection of algorithms, which he refers to as engines.

Google has one engine, he says, we have 30 of them just for natural language processing, and 77 overall if you count engines it has acquired to work on other types of machine-learning problems. His company is attempting to acquire more, across various domains of expertise.

Although no one Veritone client necessarily has massive amounts of data on its own, Steelberg expects to make up for that by pooling insights across his companys customer base.

For all the promise, Veritones shares are down a whopping 40% since their debut.

Steelberg, who started programming in the fourth grade, sold his last company, radio advertising outfit dMarc, to Google for $1.24 billion in 2006. Hes undaunted by the lackluster reception. The biggest challenge we have, he says, is that we are three years ahead of the average investor in terms of understanding the opportunity.

OLD HANDS IN SOFTWARE are just as enthusiastic. Siebel, 64, who sold his Siebel Systems to Oracle for nearly $6 billion in 2006, is solving another aspect of the AI problem: getting access to data.

His new company, C3 IoT, which is still private, is doing work for one of the largest electric utilities in the world, Italys Enel (ENEL.Italy), observing patterns in tens of millions of electric meters throughout Europe. C3 IoT hopes to help Enel discover how much its electricity is being used versus how much is being paid forto ferret out fraud.

There are numerous uses of machine learning across many industries. C3 is also working with Deere DE -5.379899983868365% Deere & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD117.31 -6.67 -5.379899983868365% /Date(1503090051752-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11342389 AFTER HOURS USD117.12 -0.19 -0.16196402693717502% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 22239 P/E Ratio 19.649916247906198 Market Cap 37523010381.8066 Dividend Yield 2.0458613928906315% Rev. per Employee 494044 More quote details and news DE in Your Value Your Change Short position (DE) to reduce inventory. The heavy-equipment maker, for instance, keeps some $4 billion worth of parts on hand for use in manufacturing. Using AI, its possible to get a better sense of how much is practically needed and reduce Deeres working capital costs.

The big picture to Siebel is that more sources of data are becoming available because sensors with network connections are being attached to every part of the electrical grid, and to other forms of infrastructure. These sensors are popularly known as the Internet of Things, a kind of second Internet that connects machines rather than people on their computers and smartphones. The Enel project is the largest such IoT project in the world, claims Siebel, connecting 42 million sensors.

In the future, he says, All problems will be problems of IoT. And the winners will be the companies that have enough sensors in place to generate the data needed to solve complex business problems.

TIERNAN RAY can be reached at: tiernan.ray@barrons.com, http://www.blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily or @barronstechblog

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Artificial intelligence is coming to medicine don’t be afraid – STAT

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utomation could replace one-third of U.S. jobs within 15 years. Oxford and Yale experts recently predicted that artificial intelligence could outperform humans in a variety of tasks by 2045, ranging from writing novels to performing surgery and driving vehicles. A little human rage would be a natural response to such unsettling news.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing us to the precipice of an enormous societal shift. We are collectively worrying about what it will mean for people. As a doctor, Im naturally drawn to thinking about AIs impact on the practice of medicine. Ive decided to welcome the coming revolution, believing that it offers a wonderful opportunity for increases in productivity that will transform health care to benefit everyone.

Groundbreaking AI models have bested humans in complex reasoning games, like the recent victory of Googles AlphaGo AI over the human Go champ. What does that mean for medicine?

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To date, most AI solutions have solved minor human issues playing a game or helping order a box of detergent. The innovations need to matter more. The true breakthroughs and potential of AI lie in real advancements in human productivity. A McKinsey Global Institute report suggests that AI is helping us approach an unparalleled expansion in productivity that will yield five times the increase introduced by the steam engine and about 1 1/2 times the improvements weve seen from robotics and computers combined. We simply dont have a mental model to comprehend the potential of AI.

Across all industries, an estimated 60 percent of jobs will have 30 percent of their activities automated; about 5 percent of jobs will be 100 percent automated.

What this means for health care is murky right now. Does that 5 percent include doctors? After all, medicine is a series of data points of a knowable nature with clear treatment pathways that could be automated. That premise, though, fantastically overstates and misjudges the capabilities of AI and dangerously oversimplifies the complexity underpinning what physicians do. Realistically, AI will perform many discrete tasks better than humans can which, in turn, will free physicians to focus on accomplishing higher-order tasks.

If you break down the patient-physician interaction, its complexity is immediately obvious. Requirements include empathy, information management, application of expertise in a given context, negotiation with multiple stakeholders, and unpredictable physical response (think of surgery), often with a life on the line. These are not AI-applicable functions.

I mentioned AlphaGo AI beating human experts at the game. The reason this feat was so impressive is due to the high branching factor and complexity of the Go game tree there are an estimated 250 choices per move, permitting estimates of 10 to the 170th different game outcomes. By comparison, chess has a branching factor of 35, with 10 to the 47th different possible game outcomes. Medicine, with its infinite number of moves and outcomes, is decades away from medical approaches safely managed by machines alone.

We still need the human factor.

That said, more than 20 percent of a physicians time is now spent entering data. Since doctors are increasingly overburdened with clerical tasks like electronic health record entry, prior authorizations, and claims management, they have less time to practice medicine, do research, master new technology, and improve their skills. We need a radical enhancement in productivity just to sustain our current health standards, much less move forward. Thoughtfully combining human expertise and automated functionality creates an augmented physician model that scales and advances the expertise of the doctor.

Physicians would rather practice at the top of their licensing and address complex patient interaction than waste time entering data, faxing (yes, faxing!) service authorizations, or tapping away behind a computer. The clerical burdens pushed by fickle health care systems onto physicians and other care providers is both unsustainable and a waste of our best and brightest minds. Its the equivalent of asking an airline pilot to manage the ticket counter, count the passengers, handle the standby and upgrade lists, and give the safety demonstrations then fly the plane. AI can help with such support functions.

But to radically advance health care productivity, physicians must work alongside innovators to atomize the tasks of their work. Understanding where they can let go to unlock time is essential, as is collaborating with technologists to guide truly useful development.

Perhaps it makes sense to start with automated interpretation of basic labs, dose adjustment for given medications, speech-to-text tools that simplify transcription or document face-to-face interactions, or even automate wound closure. And then move on from there.

It will be important for physicians and patients to engage and help define the evolution of automation in medicine in order to protect patient care. And physicians must be open to how new roles for them can be created by rapidly advancing technology.

If it all sounds a bit dreamy, I offer an instructive footnote about experimentation with AlphaGo AI. The recent game summit proving AlphaGos prowess also demonstrated that human talent increases significantly when paired with AI. This hybrid model of humans and machines working together presents a scalable automation paradigm for medicine, one that creates new tasks and roles for essential medical and technology professionals, increasing the capabilities of the entire field as we move forward.

Physicians should embrace this opportunity rather than fear it. Its time to rage with the machine.

Jack Stockert, M.D., is a managing director and leader of strategy and business development at Health2047, a Silicon Valley-based innovation company.

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Elon Musk recently said that the threat of Artificial Intelligence is more dangerous than that of North Koreas nuclear ambitions.

While I dont pretend to be a foreign policy expert, Im confident that Musks commentary oversimplifies things at the very least. And that AI, when defined, built, cultivated and deployed with the right human oversight, has the potential to do significantly more good for the world than harm.

In order to ensure Musks comments stay in the realm of extreme, though, the AI-focused technology community needs to collectively figure out some basic guide rails.

Understand ethical AI and its role in the future of work

A crucial step toward building a secure and thriving AI industry is collectively defining what ethical AI means for people developing the technology and people using it.

At Sage, we define ethical AI as the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans, built with the ability to autonomously conduct, support or manage business activity across disciplines in a responsible and accountable way.

At its core, AI is the creation of intelligent machines that think, work and learn like humans. AI should not be a replacement for standard business rules or procedures.

Thats why we believe all AI-driven technology used in the workplace should embody and advance the interests of an individual company, its staff and its consumer base.

Recruit talent that understands AI and its power to address workplace challenges

Companies deal with team changes regularly. Issues arise tied to trust, accountability and personnel behavior that goes against the values of a company or society, in general. In the tech industry alone, sexism, racial bias and other serious, but eradicable trends persist from the C-suite down to the entry-level.

Consequently, the industry should focus on efforts to develop and grow a diverse talent pool that can build AI technologies to enhance business operations and address specific sets of workplace issues, while ensuring that it is accountable.

Employers need to recruit people who understand the importance of applying strict human resources guidelines to AI performing tasks alongside human employees across industries and geographies. AI, for its part, needs to learn how to conduct itself in a work environment and be rewarded for expected behavior to reinforce good habits.

Hopefully, AIs human co-workers including people actually building the technology will learn vital AI management skills, adopt strong ethics and hold themselves more accountable in the process.

Develop AI that runs on data reflecting the diversity of its users

Humans possess inherent social, economic and cultural biases. Its unfortunately core to social fabrics around the world. Therefore, AI offers a chance for the business community to eliminate such biases from their global operations.

The onus is on the tech community to build technology that utilizes data from relevant, trusted sources to embrace a diversity of culture, knowledge, opinions, skills and interactions.

Indeed, AI operating in the business world today performs repetitive tasks well, learns on the job and even incorporates human social norms into its work. However, AI also spends a significant amount of time scouring the web and its own conversational history for additional context that will inform future interactions with human counterparts.

This prevalence of well-trodden data sets and partial information on the internet presents a challenge and an opportunity for AI developers. When built with responsible business and social practices in mind, AI technology has the potential to consistently and ethically deliver products and services to people who need them. And do so without the omnipresent human threat of bias.

Ultimately, we need to create innately diverse AI. As an industry-focused tech community, we must develop effective mechanisms to filter out biases, as well as any negative sentiment in the data that AI learns from to ensure the technology does not perpetuate stereotypes. Unless we build AI using diverse teams, datasets and design, we risk repeating the fundamental inequality of previous industrial revolutions.

Through it all, its important to remember that the respective roles of humans and ethics in AI development is crucial. In fact, I think the shared future of AI and humans depends on them.

Kriti Sharma is the vice president of bots and AI at Sage Group, a global integrated accounting, payroll and payment systems provider. She is also the creator of Pegg, the worlds first AI assistant for accounting, with users in 135 countries.

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Google’s New Site Uses Artificial Intelligence to Track Hate Crimes – Fortune

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Many observers and commentators were shocked by the violence that erupted at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend. But "incidents of hate are actually all too common" in the U.S., according to the journalism nonprofit ProPublica , which has launched a tool to help Americans better understand that reality.

The Documenting Hate News Index , built in partnership with Googles News Lab and the data visualization studio Pitch Interactive, collects news reports on hate incidents and makes them searchable by name, topic, and date.

The site is certainly eye-opening, and grim.

More than just a list, the site allows hate-related stories to be browsed by date, and shows fluctuations in overall reports of hate crimes over time. Astonishingly, while the violence in Charlottesville captured headlines, last weekend was not a peak for U.S. hate crimes a much broader wave crested in late May, when crimes included two fatalities in an anti-Muslim attack in Portland, a teacher ripping off a young students hijab, and the killing of a young black Army lieutenant by a white supremacist .

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According to Google News Labs announcement , the site uses machine learning specifically, Googles Natural Language API to understand both the content of news reports about hate crimes, and subtler things like intent and sentiment. That means it can detect stories about events "suggestive of hate crime, bias, or abuse" and track the frequency of particular names, places, and more general keywords like "businessman" and "nationalists."

Currently, "Donald Trump" is the highest-ranking keyword associated with incidents of hate.

The project is important because, according to ProPublicas larger Documenting Hate project, there is no reliable national database of hate crimes. The Index is primarily intended to help journalists, researchers, and civil rights organizations get a broader view on the national situation.

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Exploring the human side of artificial intelligence at PHLAI – Technical.ly Philly

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It may be time to stop talking about machine learning and artificial intelligence as technologies of the future.

On Tuesday, Aug. 15, engineers and developers from across the region shared how these technologies are at work today, dramatically transforming products, operations, business processes and, most importantly, the customer experience.

Sponsored by Comcast, PHLAIbrought together hundreds of technologists for a full day of tech talks and networking focused on machine learning and AI (heres our preview piece from July). More than 20 speakers filled three tracks on operations, product and business intelligence with subjects ranging from using deep learning to prevent human trafficking; to the technology behind Pinterest recommendations; to Comcasts own X1 Voice Remote and the machine-learning that powers our homegrown Natural Language Processing platform.

While the applications for these technologies span the widest possible range of uses, the unifying theme throughout the PHLAI talks was that artificial intelligence and machine learning have already deeply transformed the way we do business and deliver service to customers, and that transformation is only accelerating.

Comcast Chief Product Officer Chris Satchell kicked off the day sharing some lessons from his early background developing AI for video games, including the critical importance of factoring customer behavior and attitudes into decisions made in the development process. Its fine for AI systems to be complex, Satchell said, but if a customer cant build a mental model of whats happening in the background, they tend to dismiss it as random.

Dave Ward, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect at Cisco, painted a compelling picture of how machine learning and AI applications arent just growing but also converging as the boundaries between traditional AI domains like security, automation, Internet of Things and marketing begin to dissolve. Machine learning and AI arent magical algorithms, Ward said, but the reality may be much more exciting, as these technologies deliver real customer value and become increasingly mainstream.

Another key takeaway from the event was the importance of human intervention at every step of the AI and machine learning implementation process. Even mature AI and machine learning systems will learn bad behaviors (false positives, etc.) and must be properly operated to yield the best result. Things that are hard, or even impossible for the human mind can be trivial for AI, but the reverse is also true. The best AI outcomes come from people and machines working together.

One thing that was on full display at PHLAI was the vast breadth of engineering leadership coming out of Philadelphia. While participants and speakers came from as far away as California, the vast majority were based here.

PHLAI is the third in a series of one-day technical conferences that we kicked off in January with Scala by the Schuylkill. Response to these events has been incredible. Our final event of the year, which focuses on the craft of software development, is already in the works, and were planning another full slate of technical conferences right here throughout 2018.

In just these three events, we confirmed something we already knew: the technology and engineering community in Philadelphia is amazing, diverse and growing, and that we are capable of great things when we come together.

Were looking forward for many more events to come. Keep an eye on the Comcast Labs blog for news about upcoming conferences and how to register.

Jeanine Heck serves as Executive Director in the Technology and Product organization of Comcast Cable. In this role, Heck brings artificial intelligence into XFINITY products. She was the founding product manager for the X1 voice remote, has led the launch of a TV search engine, and managed the companys first TV recommendations engine.

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Nucon Aerospace opens aerospace, defence component facility in Hyderabad – Hindu Business Line

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Nucon Aerospace, a manufacturer of precision control systems for the marine, ground and aerospace industries, has announced the launch of a production facility in Hyderabad.

The facility, located at Nadergul village, Adibatla in Telangana, was inaugurated by K.T. Rama Rao, Minister for IT, Industries & Commerce, Telangana, in the presence of G Satheesh Reddy, DG, Missiles and Strategic Systems and Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri, S Somanath, Director, Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), ISRO, V Udaya Bhaskar, CMD, Bharat Dynamics Ltd, BHVS Narayana Murthy, Director, Research Centre Imarat (RCI) and G Chandramouli, Associate Director, DRDL and Project Director, Akash, among others.

Headquartered in Hyderabad, Nucon develops projects and provides comprehensive solutions to a number of clients including HAL, BEML, BDL, BEL, ISRO, DRDO, Brahmos, Rafael, IAI and UTC.

Over the years, Nucon has made inroads into multiple product categories within the industry and has produced critical products such as control actuation systems, embedded control systems, avionics, cable assemblies and low pressure and high pressure pneumatic systems.

As the aerospace and defence sectors demand high-performance mechanisms and components, Nucon has been at the forefront with contemporary equipment and laboratories to meet the demand.

Hemant Jalan, Chairman & Managing Director, Nucon said, This new facility is a major milestone for us and was possible due to innovative work we have been doing and by designing and manufacturing products that exceed customer expectations and meet regulatory requirements.

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Top 10 states for aerospace manufacturing potential: Where Colorado ranks in PwC report – Denver Business Journal

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Colorado has jumped into the top 10 in a ranking of the states most attractive for aerospace manufacturing. Colorado is tied for eighth with Texas in PricewaterhouseCoopers' 2017 Aerospace Manufacturing Attractiveness rankings. The state finished at No.

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The Science Zone Hosts Mission Aerospace: An A-Maze-ing Adventure – Oil City

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Liam Morton creates a giant bubble, at the Science Zone in Casper, Friday August 18th. (Photo: Brittany Lynn Elliott)

Just in time for the Total Solar Eclipse, the Science Zone is inviting visitors to expand their knowledge of outer space by exploring the history of flight, navigation and NASAs vision for the future of earth and space exploration.

Mission Aerospace wants to inspire the next generation of explorers to value where we are today and to look towards aviation of tomorrow. Turn that inspiration into flight by building your own rockets and paper airplanes and testing them for distance and air-dexterity in the target-filled launch arenas.

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Can your rocket reach Saturn? Can you fly your plane around the world? Can you tweak your plane to do tricks? Science Zone officials say that the exhibit is a good way to learn more about aviation and aeronautics that have taken astronauts to the moon and back.

The Science Zone, via social media, has said they will be open on Sunday, August 20th, 10am to 5pm. Monday for the day of the eclipse, the Science Zone will be closed from 10am to 2pm, and only open from 2pm to 5pm.

If you have any questions please call The Science Zone at 307-473-9663.

Amelia and Liam Morton, (both age 4) work to solve the Space Maze at The Science Zone. (Photo: Brittany Lynn Elliott)

The Morton twins cooporate on a space puzzle at The Science Zone. (Photo: Brittany Lynn Elliott)

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3DR Partners With Global Aerospace to Provide Corporate Drone Insurance – The Drive

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We recently reported on Verifly's smartphone app allowing recreational drone users to insure their unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the fly, by paying for insurance by the hour. Now it seems that drone company 3DR is partnering with Global Aerospace and Harpenau Insurance in order to provide the same service for corporate use. This partnership, announced in a blog post by 3DR, is meant to alleviate concerns for companies primarily using drones in the construction and engineering fields, and any damage or injury that may occur during business hours.

According to TechRepublic, this comprehensive insurance intended to cover legal liability and/or damage will be provided to 3DR Site Scan customers, will be underwritten by Global Aerospace, and given to policy holders by Harpenau Insurance. Evan Garmon, a commercial agent at the latter company, claims that engineering and construction are the initial focus of this insurance partnership, and will be worked on first. How will this work, on the customer's end?

Apparently, customers will have the ease and convenience of a simple website or app at their disposal, if choosing to use this service. According to TechRepublic, they'll be able to access a self-service portal and choose between several different insurance options, and get a fairly accurate quote within hours before committing to one. This seems like a natural extension of the aforementioned Verifly service, just a little more bureaucratic and, well, serious. Since this is aimed at large corporations with far more legalese to wade through, and potential millions of dollars on the line, the process will naturally be slightly less breezy. That isn't to say that this won't be hugely convenient for companies seeking drone insurance, just that us recreational users have a more relaxing go at it.

3DR's post explains that users of their service will be able to include coverage of "personal injury (invasion of privacy), non-owned liability (crashing someone elses drone or a rented drone), medical expenses, premises liability, and damage sustained from any malicious acts," as well as getting "coverage for the drone itself, which covers the cost to repair equipment or to cover the total loss of the platform, payload, or ground equipment." This seems like an all-encompassing offer that will most likely appeal to a vast section of companies using UAVs in some form or another to help their business. Customers will even benefit from some more exclusive features that Global Aerospace can provide, such as 'Visual Line of Sight Standard Operating Procedure' which was specifically developed for the company by Unmanned Safety Institute.

Now, if the research firm Gartner is any reliable indication (it usually is), the drone market will reach $11.2 billion in the next three years. It's no surprise that insurance for UAVs is becoming a huge industry, and this partnership is just the beginning. We'll be sure to keep you posted on any relevant developments regarding 3DR, Global Aerospace or Harpenau Insurance, as this story evolves.

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Safran to open aerospace manufacturing facility at Mobile Aeroplex – Made In Alabama

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Safran is yet another worldwide company in the aerospace industry to call Mobile home. Safran is the 19th company to locate at Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley since Airbus launched production in Alabama, said Mayor Sandy Stimpson. The company joins a growing list of aerospace companies with a strong presence in Mobile, with examples including VT MAE, Continental Motors and MAAS Aviation.

We are pleased and proud to welcome Safran to the family of aerospace companies choosing to invest in Mobile, Stimpson said. Mobile is open for business, and our future has never been brighter.

AIR SHOW CONNECTION

The announcement comes two months after a high-level delegation from Mobile met with Safran USAs executives at the Paris Air Show.

Its exciting to see Team Mobile once again successfully recruit another world-class aviation and aerospace industry partner to our area, Mobile County Commissioner Connie Hudson said.

The Mobile Area Chamber said discussions to locate the facility in Mobile were finalized at a meeting in Paris that included Safran USA decision-makers, Stimpson, Hudson and Mobile Airport Authoritys Mark McVay.

Safran is yet another worldwide company in the aerospace industry to call Mobile home. Their manufacturing presence within our aerospace hub will continue to pay dividends in our future recruitment efforts in the industry, said David Rodgers, a senior project manager who led the recruitment efforts for the Chamber.

AEROSPACE EXPANSION

Safrans announcement comes amid a growth spurt for the Alabama aerospace sector. In 2016, aerospace firms announced projects involving $260 million in new capital investment and 2,000 jobs, according to Alabama Department of Commerce data.

This year has brought a string of high-profile aerospace announcements from companies such as Blue Origin, Leonardo, and Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Alabama is involved in virtually every aspect of the aerospace industry, from R&D activities and raw material production to aircraft assembly and component fabrication, said Greg Canfield, secretary of the Alabama Department of Commerce.

This puts the state in a prime position for sustained growth in a dynamic industry.

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TAT Holds Global Medical Tourism Event: "Amazing Thailand Health and Wellness Tourism Showcase 2017 … – Benzinga

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The Tourism Authority of Thailand is holding the Amazing Thailand Health and Wellness Showcase 2017 to encourage Thailand's health tourism business in order to demonstrate the potentiality and readiness of health service products of Thailand at an international level, in order to create opportunities for health service providers of Thailand. Sellers can meet health tourism business representatives, buyers and media from all over the world to introduce Thailand's products and services to sales representatives worldwide.

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) August 19, 2017

Mr. Noppadon Pakprot, Deputy Governor for Tourism Products and Business, Tourism Authority of Thailand presided over the Amazing Thailand Health and Wellness Tourism Showcase 2017 yesterday, which unveiled the latest "Functional & Regenerative Medicine" innovation in Thailand.

Mr. Noppadon Pakprot, Deputy Governor for Tourism Products and Business at TAT said, "Thailand has long been recognized as a world destination for medical tourism. According to a report by VISA and Oxford Economics, Thailand has once more been confirmed as one of Asia's top medical tourism destinations. Thailand now has 58 JCI-accredited hospitals, more than any other Southeast Asian country."

The Amazing Thailand Health and Wellness Tourism Showcase 2017, under the concept "Thailand: a Paradise for Longevity", showcased Thailand as a destination for longevity products and services.

Thailand has adopted the latest innovative medicine of the century: "Functional & Regenerative Medicine," the most popular health trend in the world. In fact, Thailand is the first and only country in Asia that has specialized Functional & Regenerative Medicine hospitals, namely Better Being Hospital and MALI hospital

Moreover, Thailand has become an anti-aging center in Asia with the largest number of American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine-certified medical professionals in Asia with 500 doctors.

"Recently, the government implemented new medical tourism policies extending the visitor stay period to 90 days for members of CLMV countries and Republic of China in order to accommodate medical tourists traveling to Thailand. In addition, the long-stay visa has also been extended to 10 years for 14 countries as follow: Japan, Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Canada and the U.S. These two recent policies should further enhance the positioning of Thailand to be a world-class medical tourism hub recognized the world over."

Mr. Noppadon noted: "This is the 4th such event that TAT has organized, and this year we proudly present the top 44 Health and Wellness providers in Thailand. This event will display the potential of Thailand along with its plethora of health and wellness products to international awareness. It will also provide a marketing platform for Thai health and wellness providers to discuss prospective business deals with medical tourism facilitators and travel agencies from across the globe."

The one-day event highlighted why Thailand is a "Paradise for Longevity", along with holding an informative presentation on the concept of "Functional & Regenerative Medicine." In the afternoon, buyers had the chance to discuss business deals with the top 44 health and wellness provider in Thailand, including: General Hospital, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Regenerative Functional Medicine Hospital, Anti-Aging Clinic, Cosmetic & Aesthetic Clinic, Dental Clinic, Cell Therapy Clinic, and Lab Check Up, all of whom were ready to discuss prospective business deals with international buyers.

Mr. Noppadon Pakprot concluded as follows: "We hope that this event will further strengthen the awareness of Thailand as the premier destination for health and wellness tourism, and that the trade event would help generate more than 500 millions Baht to the Thai economy."

Ms. Jittima Udayachalerm, Director, Royal Orchid Plus Business Unit said, "Royal Orchid Plus is delighted to be part of this global medical tourism event at this time. We've created exciting marketing activities to support this project. We've organized a special event, inviting Royal Orchid Plus Platinum and Gold members to come and get health check-ups for free, and also given them the chance to meet and buy special packages from the hospitals and clinics at the event. Additionally, we will promote an exclusive health and wellness deal to Royal Orchid Plus members through our online channels, including email, social media, and our website."

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Media's Anti-Aging Agenda without the Benefit of Scientific Evidence, Fact or Common Sense – Anti Aging News

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Allure Magazine announces it's intention to ban the term "anti-aging," and wipe it from the internet. Another veiled political attack against the successes of anti-aging sciences, but longevity medicine cannot be stopped.

First of all let us applaud the 29 celebrities in the Allure Magazine online article on August 15, 2017 (https://www.allure.com/gallery/celebrities-against-anti-aging) for what appears to be living and eating healthy, adhering to Anti-aging Medical Principles (preventative medicine), getting the proper amount of exercise, possibly buying all natural, non-gmo foods, and being blessed with great genetics.

Unfortunately, being blessed with great genetics alone does not always help someone stay beautiful as they circle the sun more than 40 times. You have to believe that, all though age is inevitable, it is not the only factor that causes your body to deteriorate and grow older.

WorldHealth.net thinks its horrible that some people misuse terms, or that in many cases the wrong message gets attached to good philosophies. WHN doesnt believe in unnecessary plastic surgery, hormonal therapies that are not physician supervised and medically legal, stem cell therapies at the beauty shop, overzealous and sometimes completely fake claims by advertisers such as anti-aging miracle skin creams, nor does WHN or any of its affiliates believe a buzz word or coined term should be used to influence potential consumers. WHN believes that credible noncommercial information should be used as a tool to combat ignorance and protect consumers.

If you are truly interested in the mission of Anti-aging medicine, subscribe to the Longevity Now newsletter here at WorldHealth.net and go to A4M.com and read about this 25 year old revolution. Anti-aging medicine, said Dr. Ronald Klatz, President of the A4M, who is accredited with Coining the Term Anti-aging more than 25 years ago, for the most part is all about inner beauty, it isnt about cosmetic surgery, solely enhancing your appearance, or even living forever. Its about living healthy, growing older with a better quality of life, and slowing down or defeating disease such as Macular Degeneration, Alzheimers, Diabetes, disease associated with Hormone Inadaquacies, and a host of other aliments that affect our bodies from gravity to normal wear and tear. No matter how new or old your car is you have to change the oil at regular intervals or your car simply wont last. I know this is a simply analogy, but our bodies are basically the same. Anti-aging is basically Preventative Medicine that looks stand takes advantage of natural remedies mixed with Scientific Gains to help the 100,000 plus doctors the A4M has trained, help their patients live happier and healthier lives.

Dr. Ronald Klatz went on further to point out, magazines such as Allure hardly focus on or promote inner beauty. They focus on outward appearance, pushing cosmetic goods, promote unbelievably attractive celebrities and models, and then they have the Gaul to take shots at Botox for helping many millions of people try to look and feel a little better. Unfortunately, Allure type magazines give young women unrealistic expectations on a daily basis that you need to look like Hale Berry, or Jennifer Anniston to be beautiful. Thats simply not true, but you do need to live the Anti-aging lifestyle so as you advance in years your dont suffer, and decay in old folks, but rather enjoy life to your last breath. Thats the true Anit-aging message.

WHN would like recognize bias, and WHN is a proponent of Anti-Aging Medicine so therefore WHN is slightly biased. WHN is an opponent of the abuse of the term Anti-aging by advertisers, product peddlers, and financially motivated journalists. For example, WHN can only make guesses as to the intentions of Allure Magazines position on the term Anti Aging. Allure could be talking about skin cream. However, WHN can use the quotes actually published by Allure titled 29 Celebrities That Are Against The Term Anti-Aging to let WHNs readers draw their own conclusions as to the intentions of Allure. If you read the quotes exactly as the appear at https://www.allure.com/gallery/celebrities-against-anti-aging, you will notice that only 3 of 29 beautiful celebrities even mentioned Ant-Aging.

WHN prefers to be honest and avoid Fake News. WHN would like you to know that Jamie Lee-Curtis almost mentioned the term Anti-aging. Instead Jamie refers to Anti-aging as Anti referencing aging in the same sentence before the term Anti which is the word that ends the sentence. Jamie starts the next sentence with Aging with the sentence before ending in Anti. This is simply journalistic dishonesty by a publications editor. This example of lack of journalistic integrity can be seen underlined below in Jamies quote:

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti (end of sentence). Aging( Start of new sentence to create Anti. Aging) is as natural as a baby's softness and scent. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes, and aging." fromThe Huffington Post

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TAT holds global medical tourism event: "Amazing Thailand Health and Wellness Tourism Showcase 2017," focusing … – Markets Insider

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BANGKOK, Aug. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr. NoppadonPakprot, Deputy Governorfor Tourism Products and Business,Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) presided over the Amazing Thailand Health and Wellness Tourism Showcase 2017 yesterday, which unveiled the latest "Functional & Regenerative Medicine" innovation in Thailand.

Mr. NoppadonPakprot, Deputy Governorfor Tourism Products and Business at TAT said, "Thailand has long been recognized as a world destination for medical tourism. According to a report by VISA and Oxford Economics, Thailand has once more been confirmed as one of Asia's top medical tourism destinations. Thailand now has 58 JCI-accredited hospitals, more than any other Southeast Asian country."

The Amazing Thailand Health and Wellness Tourism Showcase 2017, under the concept "Thailand: a Paradise for Longevity", showcased Thailand as a destination for longevity products and services.

Thailand has adopted the latest innovative medicine of the century: "Functional & Regenerative Medicine," the most popular health trend in the world. In fact, Thailand is the first and only country in Asia that has specialized Functional & Regenerative Medicine hospitals, namely Better Being Hospital and MALI hospital

Moreover, Thailand has become an anti-aging center in Asia with the largest number of American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine-certified medical professionals in Asia with 500 doctors.

"Recently, the government implemented new medical tourism policies extending the visitor stay period to 90 days for members of CLMV countries andTaiwan in order to accommodate medical tourists traveling to Thailand. In addition, the long-stay visa has also been extended to 10 years for 14 countries as follow: Japan, Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Canada and the U.S. These two recent policies should further enhance the positioning of Thailand to be a world-class medical tourism hub recognized the world over."

Mr. Noppadonnoted: "This is the 4th such event that TAT has organized, and this year we proudly present the top 44 Health and Wellness providers in Thailand. This event will display the potential of Thailand along with its plethora of health and wellness products to international awareness. It will also provide a marketing platform for Thai health and wellness providers to discuss prospective business deals with medical tourism facilitators and travel agencies from across the globe."

The one-day event highlighted why Thailand is a "Paradise for Longevity", along with holding an informative presentation on the concept of "Functional & Regenerative Medicine. In the afternoon, buyers had the chance to discuss business deals with the top 44 health and wellness providers in Thailand, including: General Hospital, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Regenerative Functional Medicine Hospital, Anti-Aging Clinic, Cosmetic & Aesthetic Clinic, Dental Clinic, Cell Therapy Clinic, and Lab Check Up, all of whom were ready to discuss prospective business deals with international buyers.

Mr. NoppadonPakprot concluded as follows: "We hope that this event will further strengthen the awareness of Thailand as the premier destination for health and wellness tourism, and that the trade event would help generate more than 500 million Baht to the Thai economy."

Ms. Jittima Udayachalerm, Director, Royal Orchid Plus Business Unit said, "Royal Orchid Plus is delighted to be part of this global medical tourism event at this time. We've created exciting marketing activities to support this project. "We've organized a special event, inviting Royal Orchid Plus Platinum and Gold members to come and get health check-ups for free, and also given them the chance to meet and buy special packages from the hospitals and clinics at the event. Additionally, we will promote an exclusive health and wellness deal to Royal Orchid Plus members through our online channels, including email, social media, and our website."

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Growth in Nanomedicine market-2017 trends, forecasts, analysis … – satPRnews (press release)

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The report firstly introduced the Nanomedicine basics: definitions, classifications, applications and industry chain overview; industry policies and plans; product specifications; manufacturing processes; cost structures and so on. Then it analyzed the worlds main region market conditions, including the product price, profit, capacity, production, capacity utilization, supply, demand and industry growth rate etc. In the end, the report introduced new project SWOT analysis, investment feasibility analysis, and investment return analysis.

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Nanomedicine is a branch of medicine that applies the knowledge and tools of nanotechnology to the prevention and treatment of disease. Nanomedicine involves the use of nanoscale materials, such as biocompatible nanoparticles and nanorobots, for diagnosis, delivery, sensing or actuation purposes in a living organism.

The ongoing market trends of Nanomedicine market and the key factors impacting the growth prospects are elucidated. With increase in the trend, the factors affecting the trend are mentioned with perfect reasons. Top manufactures, price, revenue, market share are explained to give a depth of idea on the competitive side.

Each and every segment type and their sub types are well elaborated to give a better idea about this market during the forecast period of 2017respectively.

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Leveraging The Power of Behavioral Science in Banking – The Financial Brand

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One of the benefits of advanced analytics and digital technology is the ability to better understand consumer behavior. In financial services, organizations are creating differentiation by using machine learning to assist consumers in managing their financial lives.

By Jon Ogden, Director of Content at MX

In the age of advanced analytics, data is quickly becoming more and more valuable and for good reason. Data enables banks, credit unions, and fintech companies to better understand their users, edge out the competition, and provide the right product to the right person at the right time.

However, finding clever ways to dice and display data isnt always sufficient for changing behavior. That is, its not enough just to present users with data points and expect them to get their financial lives in order or to know how to handle their money correctly. Changing behavior requires much more. Thats where behavioral science can help.

Behavioral science analyzes what actually gets people to change their behavior rather than going along with whatever common sense says might work. Common sense says that we wont constantly eat unhealthy food once we know it causes us health problems, and yet we often do it anyway. So what actually persuades people to change habits? Thats perhaps the most critical question the field of behavioral science asks.

Lets look at five examples from various industries to see what motivates people to behave how they truly want to behave.

Behavioral marketer Nancy Harhut tells about an interesting angle Merrill Lynch took to get more people to save up for retirement. The investment bank knew that for most young people, retirement is far from their top priority an understandable situation since young people are often wrestling with student debt and saving up for their first home. And yet, everyone knows that if you save for retirement early you get far better returns at retirement.

So what did Merrill Lynch do? They had users upload a photo of themselves and then ran the photo through an aging algorithm so users could see what they would look like at age 30, 40, 50, and so on. It seems like an odd feature for an investment bank to include in their digital product, but it ended up working. Users more fully realized that they needed to prepare for the future, and they changed their behavior accordingly.

The newest version of the iWatch comes with the Breathe app, an app that reminds you to focus on your breath for a certain period each day. Because the reminder is directly attached to your body in the form of a watch, you wont miss the alert to start and stop. The app also syncs to an iPhone so you can track how long you spent focused on your breathe each day.

Were still at the very beginning of whats possible with wearables, but apps like Breathe showcase an example of how technology influences behavioral science. When our technology is directly tied to our bodies, it may become easier and easier to remember to act in ways that improve our will.

Its not hard to imagine an app that alerts you in real time when youre about to spend too much at a grocery store thats equipped with the kind of technology thats available via Amazon Go(technology that can track whats in your cart as you pick it up or put it back). It wouldnt be surprising to see an app in the future that lets you set a budget before you enter a store and then holds you to that budget before you check out.

Riffing on the same theme of mindfulness, Insight Timer uses the power of networks to hold people accountable to change their behavior. When you sign into the app, it immediately shows you where people are using the app all over the world including people who live near you. From there you can find your friends and see how theyre doing at keeping up on their meditation practice.

It might seem like a small thing, but getting clued in to how your friends are behaving goes a long way to changing your behavior. You know that if you dont perform the desired behavior (in this case, meditation), all of your friends will see it and possibly even strangers who live near you. So you make an extra effort to make certain youre consistent in your habits.

While finances tend to be an area where were more private, its not hard to imagine applications that incentivize you to keep to your financial goals by connecting you with your friends. They wouldnt necessarily have to know the details of your goals, but simply by knowing that your peers will see if you binge on the coffee budget again, you might be less likely to do so.

Another example from banking comes from SunTrusts onUp program. To help users change their financial behavior, SunTrust invites them to take a preliminary quiz, share their personal stories, and attend in-person instruction about saving money. Each of these activities cues the user to pay closer attention to their financial habits, moving them closer to become financially confident.

It will be interesting to see how the onUp program develops as it integrates more fully with a range of APIs and various technologies. Even at this stage, its clear that SunTrust is leading the way when it comes to shifting the behavior of their users and helping them get in control of managing their money.

The Lose It app combines many of the ideas listed above into a single experience. Theres a community aspect, where you can compete against for your friends for losing weight and share your favorite recipes. You can even combine your efforts and join teams that compete against other teams, making for a gamified experience. If youre not interested in the community aspects, you can also select from a number of gamified personal challenges to tackle specific areas of fitness youd like to focus on. These challenges are coupled with tips and suggestions along the way.

In addition, the Lose It app connects to other applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Nike+, Fitbit, etc. This enables the app to combine the behavioral benefits of these other applications, similar to how the future of digital banking is likely to unfold, with a robust mix of APIs.

When it comes to things like finances, rest, and diet, human beings generally know what we should be doing. We each need just a little nudge to get us moving in the right direction. By studying examples from the field of behavioral science, banking can create experiences that help their account holders move in the right direction, making communities financially strong and improving company loyalty and well-being in the process. Its a goal worth pursuing.

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) What can behavioral science tell us about littering? The city of Philadelphia is trying to find out. The city is conducting experiments on various groups of residents to figure out what works.

The entire city is potentially the petri dish for GovlabPHL, an effort to improve government by experimenting with different messages, processes, provisions. The mayors policy chief Anjali Chainani is in charge.

We pilot program modifications and test to see what actually works before scaling something up,Chainani said.

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She works with a team of behavioral scientists from local colleges. Dan Hopkins from Penn says its an academics dream come true.

Its a really neat, unparalleled opportunity to actually get to test these ideas in practice, Hopkins said, to put some of our research and our expertise to the test and see what actually works and which ideas dont really scale up when youre trying to deploy them in government.

So, for instance, you say youd recycle more if you had a good, covered bin. But would you? The city ran a controlled experiment in bin distributionon two routes one in Brewerytown and one in Port Richmond. They gave out 1,500 bins in April and are studying the results even as they plan the next one on which messages people respond to best.

Were really invested in the public being able to capitalize and learn from these results, as well,Chainani said. If it doesnt, we may want to try something else before spending a lot of money on lidded bins.

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Another experiment looks at how trash can placement affects littering.

And GovLabPHL is researching not just litter but other efforts. How best to get people to renew their Bike-share pass, for instance, or enroll in wellness programs.

Employing behavioral science can help us get better bang for our scarce taxpayer dollars, Hopkins said.

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Ripple Price Forecast and Analysis – August 18, 2017

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Nothing much happened in XRP trading yesterday, apart from a minor dip around midnight, and a small bump around 8:00 a.m (UTC).

The lack of movement suggests investors are still underreacting to this week’s Ripple news about "Lightning" payments and an expansion into China. The Lightning network is particularly important, as Ripple claims it can now facilitate payments across different ledgers.

In other words, a payment can be made in Bitcoin but arrive in Litecoin. The transaction would simply slip from one blockchain to the other, smoothed along by Ripple’s “Interledger” protocol.

Not only does this protocol support Ripple’s ambition of becoming a.

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Transmission Returns to Bangkok in 2018! – Trance Hub (satire) (press release) (blog)

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After a super successful edition in 2017, Transmission makes its way back to Bangkok for another smashing edition of Transmission. After recently announcing the Prague edition and the massive Australia edition, it looks like United music are unstoppable. Known for their brilliant line-ups and out of the world production, they have happened to woo the asian audience are more than happy to be heading back to Bangkok.

TRANSMISSION FESTIVAL ASIA The Lost Oracle (AFTERMOVIE)

ASIA: Relive the unforgettable night of Transmission Festival Asia 2017 with this aftermovie and prepare for the next chapter! Mark your calendar MARCH 17th, 2018 as we return to Bitec Bangna Hall 100, Bangkok, Thailand! Share the great news, invite all your friends and follow the event page for all updates regarding ticket sales and line-up. See you in 7 months! The countdown to #TMBKK18 begins now! Transmission Festival Asia Transmission 17 2561 BITEC Hall 100 Event Page 7 !

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ASIA: Relive the unforgettable night ofTransmission Festival Asia2017 with this aftermovieand prepare for the next chapter!

Mark your calendarMARCH 17th, 2018 as we return toBitec BangnaHall 100, Bangkok, Thailand! Share the great news, invite all your friends and follow the event page for all updates regarding ticket sales and line-up. See you in 7 months! The countdown to#TMBKK18begins now!

The Festival is slated to take place on the 17th of March, 2018. Managed by United Music, the production will again be managed byVision Impossiblewho are known for putting out stellar visuals. The Lost Oracle left us all entranced with an unbeatable lineup. We cant wait for this one! Book your tickets now! This one will surely be worth everything

You can check out the event page here: Transmission Bangkok

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