Operational Decision Intelligence Service Launched
Here is a new service—operational decision intelligence. Also a company new to me—SteelTree. They define an operational decision intelligence service as something designed to help industrial teams improve awareness, reduce friction, and coordinate action across...
Meta To Bring Out More AR Glasses
John Gruber at Daring Fireball pins the Meta strategy regarding more AR glasses: Spitball: Meta’s entire business is predicated on knowing as much about people as possible. Their interest in building out a virtual “metaverse” world was motivated by the fact they could...
Robotiq Introduces IQ Platform to Automate Robotic Workcell Integration
Manufacturers have lots of data. Every day brings new technologies for gathering and storing it. The right question probes into what specific problem can be solved. I sat in the world’s shortest press conference (not complaining, even though they blew off my question)...
AVEVA Announcements from Milan Conference
AVEVA held a customer conference in Milan, Italy in May. I did not attend. They did publish several announcements. Some of these should not be surprising, since they were necessary to at least maintain pace with other industrial software companies. There was an...
AI as God?
I’ve spent too many hours on AI. I notice statistics indicating that more people are interested in data interoperability than in AI. But this is timely. I thought I’d share this item from John Ellis News Items. It’s one of my favorite sources for a quick update on the...
The Wrong Solution To An Unknown Problem
This post from Kevin Meyer brought back my first university days. I was a naive 17-year-old with no guidance from a very small school when I decided to enroll in the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (a large school—there were almost as many...
Digi Connect EZ TS Serial Device Servers, Enabling Secure Transition to Modern IP Networks
I remember the beginning of the serial networking (remember RS232 and RS422/RS485?) transition to ethernet. There were two companies that I recall who specialized in serial-to-ethernet converters. Digi was one. I thought those days were long faded into memory. Imagine...
Deepgram Launches Flux Multilingual: The World’s First Multilingual Conversational Speech Recognition Model
Voice interaction with our computing devices continues to become more powerful—and useful. Deepgram has been reaching out with a continuing stream of advancements to its Voice AI capability. (Now, if I could introduce them to Siri—but I digress.) The TL;DR: One model,...
Ship Products, Not Technologies
John Gruber nails it in a recent Daring Fireball post. He refers to a news item quoting incoming Apple CEO John Ternus saying Apple has always shipped products, not technologies. Steven Levy writing in Wired ripped Ternus for not laying out a plan to ship AI. But AI...
Automate Show Coming to Chicago in June
Few trade show/conferences exist in our market anymore. I attend only a few of them. I will be at Automate at Chicago’s McCormick Place next month. If you’d like to meet for a coffee and chat while I’m there, send me a note. I will see Keegan (didn’t get the proper...
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