[1] ServiceNow has announced plans to acquire Hitch Works (Hitch), an
AI-powered platform designed to companies plug the talent gap by aligning existing employees' skills with new roles and training opportunities across a company.
The announcement comes as businesses across the
industrial spectrum battle a growing skills gap and talent shortage, driven in part by trends such as the "great resignation."
When the Hitch acquisition closes, which is expected later this quarter, ServiceNow will set about integrating Hitch's skills insights into the Now Platform, and will look to bridge the existing skills and talent management data silos that often don't move beyond their native HR software systems.
>> Read more. [2] Helsinki, Finland, has one of the world's
longest-running digital twin programs. Over the last three decades, it has pushed the envelope with the early adoption of computer-aided design (CAD), 3D city mapping and full-scale digital twins.
Helsinki's digital twin journey began in the early 1980s with a city architectural competition. In the early days, architectural designers generated black and white line drawings that took twelve hours to render. Since then, processes and technologies have
evolved quite a bit.
Now the city is using digital twins to reduce carbon, improve city services and promote innovative development.
>> Read more. [3] Lenovo is among the many vendors eyeing a piece of the
artificial intelligence (AI) edge pie. It recently announced the availability of its ThinkEdge SE70 hardware, which is based on the Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX platform and integrates with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Panorama service for AI computer vision (CV) processing functionality.
"Edge AI computing applications are numerous and growing rapidly as businesses intelligently transform operations and services with
increasingly powerful analytics and automation capabilities," said Blake Kerrigan, general manager of the Global ThinkEdge Business Group at Lenovo.
Kerrigan emphasized that Lenovo's strategy is focused on what it views as the next evolution of edge computing.
>> Read more. 
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