ChatGTP, Dall E are but examples of how accessible Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently. With Weiwei Feng we discuss the current state of AI and its merits. AI has its ethical dilemmas and it is difficult to check if AI is doing what you want. The possibilities are endless and that is what we explore in this podcast.
The tech topics of this podcast episode are:
- AI eye contact for camera feeds by NVIDIA (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23572459/ai-eye-contact-tech-nvidia-movie-edit-clips)
- Massive Microsoft outage (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/massive-microsoft-365-outage-caused-by-wan-router-ip-change/)
Today, we have Tobias Zimmergren as our guest in this episode of the podcast! Tobias is Senior Architecture Content Lead at Microsoft and has recently released guidance on how to architect your solutions in the most sustainable way. This guidance is part of the Azure Well-Architectured Framework and in he tells us all about it during this episode!
If you want to read more about the Sustainability guidance, make sure to read this blog by Tobias:
Announcing sustainability guidance in the Azure Well-Architected Framework
http://aka.ms/waf/sustainability
Of course, we also have our tech updates:
Matter for IoT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)
ChatGPT
http://chat.openai.com/
Have you ever wondered what governments do to comply to all kinds of security, compliance and policy requirements? Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty to support governments and public sector customers with just that. In this episode, Michiel van Otegem (Principal Program Manager at Microsoft) is our guest to explain us all about it.
Next to that, we of course talk about our tech updates:
Mastodon instead of twitter?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63534240
In Sweden, a huge particle cannon is taking shape, which makes it possible to look deep into objects and materials (Dutch article)
https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/in-zweden-krijgt-een-enorm-deeltjeskanon-vorm-dat-het-mogelijk-maakt-diep-in-voorwerpen-en-materialen-te-kijken~b132b355/
Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to over 11 years in prison
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/18/23465172/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-fraud-conviction-sentencing
In this episode, Pepijn Paap is our guest. Pepijn is Lead SAP/ERP Business Assurance Management Consultant & Test Master at Sogeti. He will tell us everything about the latest developments in SAP. With all the core processes that run on SAP workloads around the world, this is a very interesting topic to know more about!
Of course, we start with our tech updates:
MR 3D objects API smithonian institute
https://3d-api.si.edu/api-docs/
Meta Quest 2 Townscraper
https://www.techradar.com/news/one-of-the-best-city-builders-of-last-year-is-coming-to-oculus-quest-2
Law enforcement and the challenge of deepfakes
https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/Europol_Innovation_Lab_Facing_Reality_Law_Enforcement_And_The_Challenge_Of_Deepfakes.pdf
Sustainability is a very hot topic right now. In this episode, we will talk with Maheshwar about this subject. Maheshwar is Global Quality Engineering & Testing Sales Leader at Sogeti Global. He has been researching sustainability for a couple of years now.
During this episode, the following tech items are discussed:
New rules for people in self-driving cars
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61155735
Boring Company raises additional $675 million as investors chuck money into holes in the ground
The term "MLOps" refers to deploying, managing, and monitoring machine learning models in production. It takes best practices from the field of DevOps and utilizes them for the unique challenges that arise running machine learning systems in production. In this episode, MLOps is the main subject. Tia and Ed are our guests and provide valuable insights about this exciting subject!
During this episode, we discussed the following tech updates:
Spotify Car Thing gets 'add to queue' and call answering features
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/7/23015144/spotify-car-thing-add-to-queue-calls-podcasts
Researchers in Hong Kong create 'soft robot' made of magnetic slime
Collaborate on code, a 3D print stl-file or CAD drawing or on a document. Github is at the root of all of this. Now the worlds largest collaboration tool and full of features you might not have heard of. Together with Jeff Beehler from Github we talk you trough the basis of Github, find out its latest and greatest features but also how inner source can act as a quality gatekeeper for the outside world.
More information on Github is found on https://github.com. You can build your own Octocat here https://myoctocat.com. A live editor for your mermaid diagrams as used in Github's Copilot: https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid-live-editor/. Collaboration is key and you can learn all about it in this Technology Labs conversation. We always start with a couple of tech updates. Here are the links to what we discussed:
Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid | The GitHub Blog
https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-files-mermaid/
Ford makes it easier to 3D-print your own accessories for the Maverick
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/16/22936380/ford-maverick-cupholders-3d-print-accessories-cad-fits
SpaceX lost 40 satelites because of electro-magnetic storm
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-lost-geomagnetic-storm
The metaverse is one big digital environment and a windmill can be represented by a nice digital wireframe image. Are they digital twins? Together with Jeroen Kersten we take a look at three different instances of a digital twin (digital assets, digital production and digital organisations). A lot of examples come by ranging from the Digital Twin of Sweden for mining transportation optimisation and windmill farm. Digital Twins are not those wireframe or CAD images you sometimes see with some data plotted on them. They ARE data. An elastic knowledge graph or a infinite mind map as Jeroen puts it shows the full potential of the digital twin. Ask your question in the context of the twin you are looking at and all the interconnections and relations become visible, hopefully solving your puzzle. Now only to integrate GPT3 natural language interpretation to these digital twin environments and we can just talk to our models to get the info we want.
It is the Matrix all over the place in this episode of the technology labs podcast. Of course we have a set of technology updates at the start of the podcast and in this case it was about:
Meta’s market value plunges by $230 billion in one day
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/3/22916007/facebook-meta-stock-drop-history-invest
NS en Arriva gaan in- en uitchecken op basis van gps en smartphoneapp testen
Netherlands parliament made new law: mandatory updates for digital products
Can Deepa Mamtani do a better prediction on AI for 2022 than AI itself? This is the episode for you to learn more about how AI is taking shape the coming year. Not unsurprisingly generative AI has a place but there is so much more. A little bit more explanation on what you can expect to be doing with machine learning algorithms the coming year is all revealed in this podcast.
Our tech updates cover a variety of topics. The tech this episode spans VR and fun one: Baby shark!
Baby Shark is the first YouTube video to surpass 10 billion views - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/13/22881970/baby-shark-youtube-video-10-billion-views
VR in home automation
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/01/07/android-quest/
In VR, there are no rules, so parents are making up their own.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/10/tech/virtual-reality-parents/index.html
Technology is evolving rapidly. We can hardly keep up with research done on AI and its commercial implications. With AI thought leader Johan Steyn from Johannesburg, South Africa, we discuss the latest developments on AI and automation. During this podcast we talk about current generations not needing a driving license, solar powered headphones, brain interaction and the name change to Meta from Facebook.
Let us know your thoughts on AI or any questions you have on the topics. We are scheduling a series of AI episodes with Johan Steyn. Any questions for him we will make sure to ask him in one of er next podcasts.r
Let us know your thoughts on AI or any questions you have on the topics. We are scheduling a series of AI episodes with Johan Steyn. Any questions for him we will make sure to ask him in one of er next podcasts.
The links to the tech topics are:
Facebook changes its name to Meta as part of company rebrand
https://news.sky.com/story/facebook-changes-its-name-to-meta-as-part-of-company-rebrand-12453440
Solar powered headphones
Bionic limbs
Together with Quantum expert Julian van Velzen we discussed the current state of Quantum computing. We encounter a lot of quantum computing links when discussing heavy computing calculations. In this podcast we take a look to some news items and their link to quantum computing (can you do crypto mining with quantum computing for example). To take things to the next level we even get the improbability drive from the book by Douglas Adams "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" into our quantum discussion. In under an hour you have your update on quantum in your ears.
Microsoft says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722155/microsoft-azure-biggest-ddos-attack-ever-2-4-tbps
No crypto locks on Intel arc GPU's
James Bond uses Nokia
It is not a question of what to automate but when to start with test automation. Vincent Wijnen talks with us on the current state of test automation. Products or applications that are (automatically) tested are evolving rapidly. Should test automation evolve just as fast? Before answering this question, Vincent shows us the values of test automation and that it needs to be quantified.
Be sure to check out the current state of test automation in the technology labs podcast!
Starting the podcast we always look at some tech updates and in this episode we discuss the take over of MailChimp for $12B. An astonishing amount of money. Is it worth it? New vendors are entering the smart glasses market. Ray-ban, Xiaomi and facebook are busy with this technology. During the podcast Rik even weighs his own glasses to compare it with a smart version. Listen to find out our conclusions!
- Intuit to acquire Mailchimp (Intuit Inc. - Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp)
- Xiaomi shows off concept smart glasses with MicroLED display (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/14/22673144/xiaomi-smart-glasses-announced-microled-display-ar)
- Ray-ban smart glasses (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22662809/facebook-ray-ban-stories-camera-smart-glasses-hands-on)
Quality Experience Day 2021
Theme: Level Up! with Quality Engineering
The QX Day is an annual event organized for and by Sogeti. It is the largest event in the Netherlands in the field of quality engineering and testing! The event is interesting for anyone who is concerned with IT quality. So certainly not just for the specialists and testers themselves.
We offer a complete and inspiring program full of keynotes, practical stories and workshops, both in Dutch and a number of tracks in English. Learn from other organisations, meet colleagues and let yourself be updated.
SIGN UP HERE to be part of the QXDAY 2021:
https://event.onliveevent.nl/qxday2021
This year's theme is: Level Up! With Quality Engineering. Speed
and quality are more important than ever, transformations to Agile and DevOps are in full swing. We are constantly looking for the next level in our field. Quality at speed, fast feedback; even better and even faster with the aim of adding value to development processes and of course the business. How do you get better at that?
Topics that will certainly be covered are:
- Quality improvement in DevOps teams
- Security within DevOps
- Quality of code and architecture choices for software development
- Quality in the chain with test automation
- Application of artificial intelligence in quality engineering
- Specification and Example approaches (such as BDD and TDD)
- Quality Engineering Strategy
- Gamification in test strategy
Selected presentations will be in English
New technologies are invading the world of test engineering. Johan Steyn is a lead architect in automation in South Africa and an authority on quality engineering. He joins our podcast from Johannesburg. The use of AI in test engineering and test automation is explained with the analogy of an old car with a new F1 motor: Go fast and break fast including an exponential increase in maintenance with a set of expert engineers. :)
Listen with us and learn about the history of CAPTCHA as well as servers that boil liquids for cooling purposes.
- Why CAPTCHA's have gotten so difficult: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence
- Use of liquid to cool data center servers: https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/datacenter-liquid-cooling/
Ron Meyer is managing director of the Center for Strategy & Leadership, an international consulting and management development organization, dedicated to improving companies' competences in the areas of strategic thinking, leadership, entrepreneurship, business innovation and change management. We connected a tech outlook with making strategic business choices. In this podcast we find out that the answer to a good strategic tech outlook is probably that there is no answer. A reassuring thought for some maybe. Ron explains strategic choices if your company should "marry" or should be the "bachelor". How this holds for a clothing company compared to a car manufacturer is what you will find out in the 18th episode of the Technology Labs podcast.
The tech items present in this podcast are:
AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-write-code-ordinary-language/
Visual chart of the levels of autonomous driving of SAE (former society of automotive engineers)
https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/assets/cm/content/blog/sae-j3016-visual-chart_5.3.21.pdf
In the 17th episode of the technology labs podcast series our guest is Erika Paasche who is Managing Director at iSQI. She joins us from Germany and tells us all about online exams and remote proctoring. A very fitting topic for education and courses in COVID times. We do so much online that taking a course and doing an exam is transferred to online space. Guaranteeing the same value for an online exam as a physical exam requires some thought. We discuss the process to get to that situation and we learn more about how these online exams are done.
The tech updates for this technology labs podcast are:
Menno van Doorn is the guest in this episode of Technology Labs. He talks about the new book "playing with reality", which he wrote with his colleagues Sander Duivestein and Thijs Pepping. Also, we have our tech updates:
Microsoft in talks with Discord over $10 billion-plus acquisition: report - https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/22/22345792/microsoft-discord-acquisition-report-10-billion | Deep reasoning - https://towardsdatascience.com/whats-next-for-ai-enter-deep-reasoning-fae8b131962a | NASA Space Shuttle Discovery - https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/nasa-space-shuttle-discovery-10283 | Solid-State Batteries - https://seekingalpha.com/article/4401725-solid-state-batteries-all-aboard-hype-train
In this episode, we talk about something we don't about much, but it's a very important subject: technical publications! D Yongmit Lepcha (Delivery Manager at Sogeti) is our guest in this episode and she explains how important it is to have technical publications. Next to that, we also have our tech items:
How many quantum computers do we need? - https://labs.sogeti.com/was-sir-thomas-watson-right-all-along/ | Boston Dynamics’ robot dog gets an arm attachment, self-charging capabilities - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/boston-dynamics-robot-dog-gets-an-arm-attachment-self-charging-capabilities/ | Twitter acquires Revue - https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/making-twitter-a-better-home-for-writers.html
During this episode, we have Daniel Maslyn as our guest! Daniel is Testing Consultant at Sogeti Belgium. We talk about technocracy, the effect of the current pandemic on our lives, and of course, we also have our tech updates!
Netflix confirms Shuffle Play feature will officially launch this year - https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/20/22240550/netflix-shuffle-play-movies-shows-viewing-history | Smart thermostats - https://news.mit.edu/2020/making-smart-thermostats-more-efficient-1218 | Spotify is paying podcasters tens of thousands of dollars to buoy its own sponsorship tool - https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22241066/spotify-anchor-sponsorships-ad-money-spend-podcasting
In this episode, we don't have guest! We have our tech updates and we talk about the upcoming year!
Float Plane Takeoff from Concrete Runway - https://youtu.be/7osw2jcsi6Q | It’s time to deplatform Trump - The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22217894/deplatform-trump-twitter-ban-facebook-youtube-congress-capitol-riots
In this episode Johan Clausen is our guest. Johan is Event manager & Pursuit Lead at Capgemini Danmark. During this episode we talk with him about eSports! But next to all those interesting subjects, we also have our tech items:
Microsoft’s big Xbox Game Pass bet is starting to pay off | HTC’s blockchain phone takes over a century to mine enough crypto to pay for itself | Scary drop slide in waterfunparks
In this episode, Dona Sarkar from Microsoft is our guest. Dona is Principal Advocate for the Power Platform at Microsoft. We talk with her about the Power Platform, her love for the African continent, and the community that she's active in. She used to lead the Windows Insider Program and that's something we touch on as well! Next to all these highly interesting subjects, we also have our tech updates:
Microsoft’s new Spotlight-like launcher for Windows 10 will arrive in May | OnScale launches Digital twins of Lungs to improve COVID-19 Patients outcomes | Go Team! @MicrosoftEdu Updates #MicrosoftTeams for #RemoteLearning
Other links: Kazeem Adegboyega | Windows Insider
In this episode, Lodewijk Bogaards - CTO at StackState - is our guest. Lodewijk tells us all about why he started the company, the 4T Data Model and a lot more. StackState has been named by Gartner as a Key Vendor in their Market Guide for AIOps Platforms 2019. Make sure to listen to this episode to learn more about what makes StackState special!
And that's not all. We also have our tech updates:
Tom's ultrawide screen monitor | Virtual formula 1 | Kuando Busylight
Today, our guest is Julia Di Russo. Julia is a Data Scientist at Sogeti. Next to that, she is also a freelance writer. We talk about her article about explaining data science to her grandma (link) and lots of other interesting subjects!
Flight simulator 2020 | Space Photos of the Week: Venus Is the Spacecraft-Killer | Nokia 800 tough
During this episode, Berend - Expert Backend Developer at Sogeti - will tell us all about the book he co-wrote together with Rik Marselis, Wouter Ruigrok & Dennis Geurtsen. The book is called "Quality for DevOps Teams" and will be released very soon. Next to that, there are also some tech updates!
Google drops gender labels from image recognition to reduce bias | Samsung blasts Galaxy phones worldwide with weird ‘1’ notification | 14 CI/CD tools
During this episode, we have Deepa Mamtani as our guest. Deepa is an Artificial Intelligence Specialist at Sogeti Netherlands and she is one of the big brains behind ADA (Artificial Data Amplifier). As usual, we will also have some tech updates:
13.7 M active D&D players worldwide | European Union presents strategies for data and AI | New Android 11 feature suggests Pixel 5 might support reverse wireless charging
During this episode Erik Haahr tells us all about purposeful architecture and social desirability. Erik Haahr is Managing Consultant at Capgemini Sogeti Denmark.
Remote software update | GAN applications / thispersondoesnotexist.com|You can now make sick beats in Microsoft Excel
During this episode we have Andrew Fullen as our guest. Andrew Fullen is Head of Technology and Innovation at Sogeti UK. We talk with him about the World Quality Report and other tech items.
World Quality Report 2019 | Facebook’s only fact-checking service in the Netherlands just quit | Star Wars immersive: Galaxy's Edge
During this episode, Eva Holmquist is our guest. She is a Senior Test Specialist and has a particular interest in Artificial Intelligence.
Man is still able to remotely control Ford rental five months after returning it | Netflix plans to release its first scripted podcast | Combine AI-types for best result ==> learning & preprogrammed (compare natural skills of newborns) | Jay Buolamwini - AI, Ain't I a woman
During this episode, we have Antoine Aymer as our guest. He gave a talk at the QX Day 2019 and we interviewed him about that.
The Dutch police have a new way to deal with drivers using phones while driving | Tesla Smart Summon => with software release 10 the car picks you up at private parking | Boris Johnson uses certain phrases to remove his name from bad publicity
During this episode we have Gitte Ottosen as our guest. We will talk about SAFe, Agile at enterprise level and release trains.
How apple uses its app store to copy the best ideas | Google Chrome warns for too easy passwords with the "Google Chrome Password Checkup extension"
During the first episode of Technology Labs we have a chat with Trine Balle Jensen of Lego and Michiel Boreel (CTO of the Sogeti Group) about the Future of Play. This interview was recorded at VINT Symposium.
We also talk about some news:
Amazon Really Doesn’t Give a Shit, Huh? | Here is the teeniest gaming laptop you ever did see | Various people with flying suits: link 1 & link 2
