LOS ANGELES — What comes after the Internet of Things? How about the Internet of Skills? In an OFC keynote Tuesday morning, Mischa Dohler, a professor at King’s College in London, pitched the idea of an Internet fast enough to, essentially, transfer expertise. It would make possible all kinds of sci-fi concepts, such as remote […]
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Shares of Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) have set the market on fire in the past year, thanks to strong memory prices and lower per-bit costs that have led to impressive financial gains. Data by YCharts. This favorable pricing environment looks set to continue as memory demand will increase at a faster pace than supply in 2017.
Hotel rooms have become the latest battleground in the war between Amazon and Apple. Both companies are competing for the top spot in the growing smart home market, with their Alexa and HomeKit-powered platforms, respectively. According to Bloomberg, Marriott expects to decide on using one of the platforms — if any — in its hotel
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The Breg Flex sensor device and mobile app for remote virtual rehabilitation Physical therapy is a big part of orthopedic care, and as the era of bundled payments take hold, albeit with a pause here and there, virtual rehab is poised to take off. Traditional widget makers are sensing an opportunity in this trend. Take
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Cognitive computing is a term you’re bound to be hearing more and more often. Here’s what it means — and how it overlaps with fields like big data, Internet of Things and machine learning. There’s no official definition of cognitive computing. But when most people use the term, they have in mind applications or services
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INTERNET OF THINGS Procurement, security slows adoption of IoT By Ross Wilkers Mar 22, 2017 Federal technology staffers have highlighted slow procurement processes and low funding levels as major challenges in efforts to secure Internet of Things platforms, a new survey from Brocade says. Thirty-nine percent of respondents singled out insufficient funds and concerns over
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YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., March 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced with the Dublin City University (DCU) Water Institute a collaborative research pilot to leverage Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for environmental monitoring and management. The deployment of DCU sensors with IBM’s machine learning and cognitive IoT technologies will aim to help protect and conserve
Delivering on a promise made at CES 2017, Huawei announced today that Mate 9 owners will soon see Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant on the critically acclaimed smartphone. The Amazon Alexa app will be loaded on Mate 9 smartphones by way of an OTA update, bringing “intelligent voice control” to the many great features the Mate
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For Internet of Things success, channel partners need to be patient and have the right kind of sales team in place. That’s what several partners have told CRN as they’ve noted that the end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) projects take at least nine months to a year to implement, including consulting, developing a proof-of-concept, and
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(John Hanley/Shutterstock) A predictive analytics startup armed with a patented learning algorithm aimed at security applications along with Internet of Things devices said it has attracted seed funding for a platform that could spot the precursors of impending fires and floods before they start. OneEvent Technologies said this week it has so far raised $4.3
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