再開発が進む東京で、グルメを核とした大型商業施設が増えている。主役は渋谷と日本橋。東京の新行列グルメを読み解く特集の第１回は渋谷ストリームを取り上げる。「100年に1度」とされる再開発の先頭を切ってオープンした新たなランドマークは、商業フロアすべてがグルメ。歩けば、次なるトレンドが見えてくる。

東京急行電鉄が主導し、2027年度まで続く渋谷再開発。その先頭を切って9月13日にオープンしたのが「渋谷ストリーム」だ。東急東横線と東京メトロ副都心線の相互直通運転で駅舎が地下化し、お役御免となった東横線旧渋谷駅のホームや線路跡地を活用した一大プロジェクトで、正面を流れる渋谷川も壁から水が噴き出す「壁泉」が整備され、生まれ変わった。渋谷駅の南側に小川（ストリーム）のように人の流れを呼び込む施設が完成したのだ …

The Pentagon is going to make one cloud vendor exceedingly happy when it chooses the winner of the $10 billion, ten-year enterprise cloud project dubbed the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI for short). The contract is designed to establish the cloud technology strategy for the military over the next 10 years as it begins to take advantage of current trends like Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and big data.

Ten billion dollars spread out over ten years may not entirely alter a market that’s expected to reach $100 billion a year very soon, but it is substantial enough give a lesser vendor much greater visibility, and possibly deeper entree into other government and private sector business. The cloud companies certainly recognize that…

Imagine a man lighting a cigarette while he’s waiting at the pump for his car to finish fueling at a Shell gas station in Singapore, unaware that with one move he could cause a fire or explosion.

An onsite video camera captures the scene, and a device inside the station running Microsoft Azure IoT Edge can now use artificial intelligence tools to pick out that behavior — out of all the cars coming and going, drivers cleaning windshields, customers buying snacks — as a potential safety risk. It’s a first line of defense on the “intelligent edge,” where data is quickly processed close to where it’s collected, without accessing the cloud, and simple machine learning algorithms can dispense with anything that’s not of interest. They can also be trained to look for other high-risk incidents: people driving recklessly, theft, improper fueling… (more…)

Burger King’s newest ad campaign mocks machine learning with a series of commercials that take a lighthearted jab at AI-generated media.

Each video begins “This ad was created by artificial intelligence,” before devolving into delicious imagery and hilarious gibberish. The best part: None of them were created by AI. They were actually conceived and made by an ad agency called David Miami – the same company behind Burger King’s net neutrality-themed campaign earlier this year.

The previous campaigns were part commercial, part social experiment (read that as “prank”), and this one’s no different. Burger King is playing along on social media, telling people it trained a machine to create commercials…