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Sooner Than You Think
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How Bots Will Automate Call Center Jobs
At a call center in the Dominican Republic, Laura Morales is designing chatbots to respond to customer service requests. A former call center agent herself, Morales has benefited from her new job that is better paid and higher skilled than what she used to do. But will these chatbots end up replacing the livelihoods of millions of agents around the world? This is an episode of Next Jobs, a mini-documentary series hosted by Bloomberg Technology's Aki Ito. (Source: Bloomberg)
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About half of humanity don’t have internet access, and a lot of those people are in Africa. Enter a $20 device with smartphone brains and a five-day battery.
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They’ve located lost subs and carriers, but haven’t yet found any planes.
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To find them, you just need to look beyond Silicon Valley.
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Nicholas Sloane has a fix for a country struggling with its supply.
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More than a half-dozen companies have working prototypes of passenger drones.
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What’s on track, late, and ahead of schedule.
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Unlike the number-crunching alternatives, British startup Graphcore has developed a brain for computers that excels at guesswork.
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A scorecard breaking down everyone from Alphabet’s Waymo to Zoox.
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China’s rising automakers want to sell the future of driving all over the world.
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The key to overtaking Tesla by 2020? Lots of government help for EVs.
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There’s plenty in the ground to meet the needs of an electric-car future, but not enough mines.
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