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This Week in Logistics News (February 5-9, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Our guinea pig Cow died this morning. What do you do with a deceased guinea pig? Dubai and HERE Technologies to develop data infrastructure for driverless transportation. Unless, of course, the shared data is crappy, inaccurate data. The kids named him Cow when he was born.

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The IoT Reality Check

C3 Solutions

It's About the Data. Consumer data provider Nielsen refers to this as 'frictionless commerce", or giving shoppers, "zero resistance from discovery to assessment to shopping to payment to fulfillment…. It's About the Data. That's the bottom line, regardless of how you get the inventory data you need to fulfill orders.

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How the Suez Canal blockage proves technology has the power to transform the shipping industry

Gravity Supply Chain

These new routes can add around 3,500 nautical miles and between five and 12 extra days to their journey, along with security issues for vessels passing through the Port of Aden or The Gulf of Guinea, both well-known for their risk of piracy. ” Gravity’s shipment tracking technology helps mitigate risks.

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Smart Cities Should Focus on Helping People

Enterra Insights

However, when cities view themselves as “the world’s best laboratories for solutions,” citizens can feel like they are guinea pigs. Secondly, AI developments must guarantee widespread trust in the correct use of data and personal information. Smartphones are an important element, as they act as mobile sensors.

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Smart Cities Should Focus on Helping People

Enterra Insights

However, when cities view themselves as “the world’s best laboratories for solutions,” citizens can feel like they are guinea pigs. Secondly, AI developments must guarantee widespread trust in the correct use of data and personal information. Smartphones are an important element, as they act as mobile sensors.

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Top 10 Most Corrupt Countries of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

--Governments and businesses should proactively disclose relevant public interest information in open data formats. Equatorial Guinea. Guinea-Bissau. Guinea-Bissau. Source: UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau. Media Type. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. Source : Human Rights Watch. Media Type.

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A Reflection on Supply Chain Digitization Trends in the Metal Industry

o9 Solutions

There is not a single day without the metals industry making the headlines: from the Guinea coup to price volatility, to the semiconductor crisis impacting the automotive industry and consequently reducing the demand for metal manufacturers. Data quality and different ERP. Our data is of poor quality.”