The South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) is more like a festival than a traditional expo. It figures, as it has its roots as a film and music festival. SXSW consists of three main parts: Interactive, Music and Film. My company, Vincit Oy, came for the Interactive part, as part of one of the Finnish companies coming along with the Nordic …
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Earlier this month, a #nordicmade delegation of 30 Nordic startups attended the LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco. The tour, organized by STARTNordic, was part of an initiative that promotes the Nordic startup scene by connecting it to other startup ecosystems around the globe. Juraj Pal of Sure gives a recap of the festival. Juraj Pal is a founder of Sure, …
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You just saw a really cool TED talk on, say lab-grown organs, and want to learn more about it, but you don’t know anything about biotechnology. Google scholar would be a good place to start – if you knew the right keywords to search for. Enter Iris.AI. Iris.AI can use the TED talk as input and find exactly what you’re …
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Iris.AI founder Anita Schjøll Brede has brought Singularity University’s Global Impact Competition to Norway in 2016, guaranteeing the winner a spot at Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program at NASA Ames Research Park. The competition aims to promote ideas that will positively impact the lives a billion people, and help Norway move from oil into innovation and technology. Singularity University was founded …
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The World Economic Forum released its report on the Future of Jobs earlier this week, and several industries were highlighted as big winners in net job growth. Artificial Intelligence was singled out as one of these future change drivers. The gist? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not the hydra-headed beast that demolishes jobs as it tramples on the global economy. Nor …
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2015 has seen an explosion in funding, interest in, and new product development around Artificial Intelligence. Facebook delivered M, Amazon gave us Echo, and Google launched TensorFlow, its open source machine learning library. A whole host of startups have also emerged, including x.ai, HyperScience, and Vicarious. There’s an interesting parallel to the web, circa 1998. At that time, tens of …
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Imagine using your phone to discover new sustainable businesses and services. But wait – anyone can do that, if they have internet connection. But what about just by texting? SURE. Sure is a startup that allows you to be more sustainable by using Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not an app – it’s a local number. You simply text Sure, …
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