Jugal Gala

Is AI going to be your next personal stylist?

Apparel seller Stitch Fix recently introduced a coral, sleeveless blouse with a split neckline—and an unusual creative provenance. It was one of three new tops designed with the help of artificial intelligence. The San Francisco-based e-commerce company, which sends customers boxes of preselected outfits, is leveraging computers to analyze purchasing behavior and learn what elements… Read more Is AI going to be your next personal stylist?

How Cyber Crime affects International Relations

In order to understand the effects that cyber crime can have on the sensitive relationships between nations in the modern world, one need not look further than the recent alleged Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 US Presidential Election. Secret emails were published and relationships between nations were strained. This incident… Read more How Cyber Crime affects International Relations

Can IoT save retail?

Retail environments have undergone significant change over the past two decades due to the introduction of information technologies, including the rise of online shopping. The Internet of Things has the potential to cause even greater disruption, but IoT can also provide traditional retailers with the tools to compete—and coexist—with the online retail world as “omni-channel”… Read more Can IoT save retail?

Outsourcing Cloud: Colocation or Cloud hosting?

Eleven years ago Amazon launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) and kicked off perhaps the most transformative shift in the history of the $300B data center industry. The idea stemmed from something simple: Amazon had built such a massive and highly efficient data center that it could sell off capacity with pay-as-you-go pricing. But Amazon started… Read more Outsourcing Cloud: Colocation or Cloud hosting?

Government & IoT: End user, Regulator or Infrastructure provider?

Imagine Pandora sitting and staring at her box. In a few moments, she will open its bronze lid and release fear, death, and plague into the world . . . but right now she is wracked with uncertainty. What’s inside? The box might contain untold riches to help her new kingdom—but Zeus warned her never… Read more Government & IoT: End user, Regulator or Infrastructure provider?