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Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop has admitted the federal government can learn a lot from the private sector in how it can do things more efficiently, effectively, and productively with tax payers’ dollars. Speaking at the Vivid Ideas panel, Drones for Good, Bishop said that much like how the private sectors have begun working […]

WWDC, dubbed by numerous as the greatest tech occasion of the year, is much less than a week away and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) appears set to show the most recent computer software from the organization. According to reports, the organization is arranging to showcase new versions of iOS, OS X, Watch OS and tvOS but

Voice assistants like Google Now, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri are all great products from their respective companies. And chances are, everyone has used them at least once. However how often have you used it in public? If your haven’t used them in public, then you’re not alone. As revealed by two latest studies conducted

The increase in terrorism and violent crime is spurring growth of global security technology—primarily in surveillance. In 2015 that market reached almost $30 billion, and has doubled over the past five years. What is now available, what’s on the drawing board, and where is it all headed? What good is it doing? While it was

The future may have arrived for the internet of things, but the IoT train is running late to the station. Promise and present-day reality still very much need to align. Companies exploring the internet of things (IoT) understand this contradiction all too well. Take Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, for example. It was October 2014. Milan Kocic

Bluetooth Smart beacon built by Krakow, Poland-based startup Estimote. (Image courtesy of Estimote). Svenn-Tore Larsen is trying to build an entire business on Bluetooth. But the company where he serves as chief executive, Nordic Semiconductor, is not using the familiar wireless standard that has found its place in everything from smartphones to headphones. Instead, the

A “Look Inside” Intel and Its Itseez Acquisition Intel just bought Russian startup Itseez to reach another stepping stone in the Internet of Things market and dive into connected markets like the automotive and its autonomous driving applications. The San Francisco-based company Itseez is a machine learning and a computer vision firm that makes vision

Amazon has launched Echosim.io and has integrated Alexa, the voice-powered AI software that is available in the Echo, Dot and Tap, into the browser itself. It will now be possible to begin asking queries to Alexa just by clicking and holding the microphone button, after an Amazon account has been signed into. Amazon’s Alexa will

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Intel Corp. has acquired computer vision startup Itseez, Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2005 and originally known as Computer Vision Center Argus, Itseez develops computer vision algorithms and implementations for embedded and specialized hardware with software that can be used in cars, security systems and other platforms. Computer vision, if you’re not familiar