Advertisement Google managed to capitalize on Apple and Samsung’s weak performance this year. While Samsung’s attempt at smartphone dominance literally blew up on its face and Apple was mediocre at its best this year, Google managed to successfully enter the lucrative hardware market by coming up with a slew of premium hardware products. Google Pixel and

Posted yesterday by RICHARD HARRIS, Executive Editor Blockchain will play an integral role in improving IoT securityIn 2016 we saw multiple hacks and data breaches, including the massive DNS attack that caused widespread internet outages. This latest attack was a wakeup call to start thinking about security in terms of the Internet of Things (IoT). Because of

Intuitive Interaction Amazon has been serious about developing the future of interactive, speech-activated artificial intelligence (AI); their chatbot Alexa, which resides within the sleek cylindrical exterior of the Amazon Echo device, has already shown the world what the next evolution of our interface with technology will look like. Last year, in their ongoing quest to better this

Virtual reality was widely tipped to be the breakthrough technology in 2016, but it appears that voice-activated personal assistants have stolen VR’s thunder. As the year draws to a close, the market has one dominant force, a potential usurper and a plethora of technology companies working on their own voice user interfaces. Speaking into thin

If Amazon’s Alexa was the finished product, I’d write it off. I couldn’t honestly recommend a virtual assistant that can’t even tell me how much protein is in two eggs. Or a device that can’t separate out items on a shopping list that I’ve just dictated. But it’s not the finished product and Amazon is