The State of Data, June 2021

Data is eating the world, continuing to impact every aspect of our lives. Here’s the data on the state-of-data in June 2021, from current attitudes towards self-driving cars to the dramatic reduction in the price of lithium-ion batteries supporting the creation and consumption of data everywhere, including work from home, to the data lost in cybersecurity attacks.

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Data Scientists In Growing Demand, Survey Says

73% of data science and analytics teams planned to hire in Q1/Q2 of 2021 and 81% planned to hire in Q3/Q4 of 2021. 

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Reinventing Drug Discovery with Quantum Computing

Polaris Quantum Biotech is reinventing drug discovery, reducing the time it takes to find candidate molecules for drug development from the typical three years to just four months. 

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Upgrading Digital Media with AI

Israeli startup D-ID has developed AI with the potential to change how digital media is created, enhanced and used by the entertainment and media industries

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A Very Short History of Quantum Computing

40 years ago, Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman argued that “nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical.” This was later perceived as a rallying cry for developing a quantum computer, leading to today’s rapid progress in the search for quantum supremacy. Here’s a very short history of the evolution of quantum computing.

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The State of Data, April 2021

The data on the state-of-data in April 2021.

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AI and Healthcare

Two AI luminaries, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng got together today on YouTube, to discuss the state of AI in healthcare.

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AI and In-Vitro Fertilization

Using big data, AI, and computer vision technologies, Israeli startup AiVF aims to transform the process of In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF).

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The Data Index, March 2021

Data is eating the world and there are numerous indicators of its ubiquitous presence in our lives.

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The Future of Global Workforce Management

How do you get from $0 to $1.2 billion valuation in 60 months? You deliver the future of work now. Or, as Eynat Guez, CEO of Papaya Global, says laughing, “you put in a lot of working hours,” ten-year-worth of working hours in the five years since she launched the company with her two co-founders.

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