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Humanitarian procurement is good at buying things that stay bought. A water tank is the same water tank the day after you sign for it. An algorithmic system is not, and that one difference breaks the current purchasing process.

“There are humans today doing jobs that don’t require the level of intelligence that a human has,” Forrester’s Max Ball said. “That work is going to go away.”

Salesforce just posted a quarter that silenced its loudest critics, but the investment case for buying at current prices is more complicated than the 22% weekly rally suggests.

A machine-learning algorithm can predict the risk of hip fracture from routinely collected health data better than current screening without needing to see the patient, according to a study in than 3.5 million older individuals.

This advancement in phone repair diagnostics is a turning point from manual and trial-and-error techniques to automated and data-driven techniques. AI software has now made a technique that is able to scan one device and compare the scan data with fault databases to yield a diagnosis in only a few seconds. This change impacts all…