IT departments take note: The internet of things market is picking up speed, with new technologies like LPWA paving the way for broader adoption. Even though a new study shows that spending on IoT could reach $3 trillion by 2025, security remains a concern. 10 IoT Security Best Practices For IT Pros (Click image for …
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Artificial Intelligence is increasingly integrated in many areas including Internet search, entertainment, commerce applications, content optimization, and robotics. The long-term prospect for these technologies is that they will become embedded in many different other technologies and provide autonomous decision making on behalf of humans, both directly, and indirectly through many processes, products, and services. AI …
Augmented reality is just what it sounds like — reality that is augmented. More specifically, a user’s view of the real world is altered by a computer-generated image that is superimposed on or in it. Unlike virtual reality, which replaces what the user sees with a simulated environment, augmented reality uses a heads-up-display or a …
Image source: Getty Images.Technology reaches into almost every area of business, and for that reason, the tech sector is home to some of the biggest growth opportunities on the market. Tech’s impact only looks poised to grow in coming years, as far-reaching trends including the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and digital advertising continue to …
Manufacturers are facing a barrage of information about how new disruptive technologies will change the face of their industry. But for manufacturers to embrace these technologies—such as mobile, social, analytics, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT)—they must have a clear understanding of the technology value-add within the context of today’s business environment. This is …
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Intel CEO Brian KrzanichReuters/Albert Gea Intel just bought a two-year old machine learning startup called Nervana Systems, a move aimed at expanding its data center business. Intel declined to share the financial details of the deal, but Recode reports it paid “at least $350 million,” citing an anonymous source. That’s a steep price for a …
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Interactive fiction has seen a resurgence in the past few years. From Chris Klimas’s freeware hypertext software Twine, to the visual novel Python engine Ren’Py, branching narrative stories are more popular than ever in videogames. But most interactive fiction games rely on written text, usually through hyperlinking passages or narrative decisions. These stories tend to …
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Rhiza, provider of an online big data analytics platform, has launched Rhizabot, an intelligent virtual assistant for business users. The product has a conversational interface, like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, that enables users to ask business questions and receive clear answers quickly. The Rhizabot tool marries natural language processing and artificial intelligence with Rhiza’s …
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Google Now, the intelligent personal assistant bundled into Android and Google’s search application, is already adept at bringing you the information you need at the right time, whether that’s traffic alerts, event reminders, sports scores, stock updates, weather, flight info, and much more. But one area where Google Now falls a little short is in customizing the …
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Photo courtesy Fumiaki Yoshimatsu Amazon has plans for Alexa Voice Service, the technology which powers Echo, to be in as many devices around the home as possible even if they are not produced by Amazon. New York Times staffer Nick Wingfield reports on the competition among tech companies to create the intelligent assistant that will …
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