November 21 – 5 Key Stories From The Digital World

Amazon is making grocery delivery a built-in feature of Prime subscriptions
Groceries represent an estimated $675 billion U.S. market that is increasingly going digital
U.S. food and beverage ecommerce sales will grow 18.2 percent to nearly $20 billion this year, making it “the fastest-growing product category online.”

devised MuZero, which combines a tree-based search (where a tree is a data structure used for locating information from within a set) with a learned model
paves the way for learning methods in a host of real-world domains, particularly those lacking a simulator that communicates rules or environment dynamics
matched the superhuman performance of high-performance planning algorithms in their favored domains…and outperformed state-of-the-art model-free [reinforcement learning] algorithms in their favored domains

Using sensing technologies and automatic brakes, WHILL’s wheelchairs detect and avoid obstacles in busy airports
there are 70 million potential customers for assistive technology products across Europe
spending on assistive technologies for the elderly and people with disabilities is projected to reach over $26 billion by 2024

service uses machine learning to highlight clauses it thinks users need to know about, including options to opt out from data collection
isn’t a replacement for a real lawyer, but it’s better than accepting a license agreement sight unseen
around 200 different key terms that Do Not Sign searches for in contracts…use machine learning to help retrieve these clauses and all their variations

combination of analytics and video is helping coaches to hone player performance and the sport is keen to push innovative use of technology in all areas of the game
portal uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to match big data with video of game-changing points
next area of development in tennis is likely to focus on connectivity, particularly in terms of IoT sensors on balls and on players