Malta GlobalFoundries‘ plan to spend billions of dollars at its Fab 8 computer chip factory in Saratoga County in the next several years is part of the company’s strategy to get ahead of what it believes will be a sustained period of growth for the semiconductor industry. While some see evidence that ebbing consumer demand […]

The Internet of Things may be taking a turn toward invisibility when it comes to marketing, at least in how a new connected farm is being positioned. Freight Farms, the company that turns shipping containers into year-round farms, is introducing a new connected farm unit that is four times smaller than its flagship offering. The

Salesforce Einstein is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that bakes deep learning, machine learning, predictive analytics, and natural language processing across the Salesforce cloud. The near future of artificial intelligence (AI) won’t be defined by ushering in a race of sentient machines. While we’re inching closer to the goal of AI brain mapping, the next

Image source: Getty Images. The internet connected people and businesses across the globe, and now the Internet of Things (IoT) could mark a similarly revolutionary shift by connecting the world’s devices and paving the way for an explosion in data generation and analytics-driven efficiency improvements. Estimates on how the IoT will progress and the value

With Franklin voting to permanently remove its parking meters this year, those coin-eating sentinels of the sidewalk have become an increasingly rare sight in the Milford area and MetroWest. Even those towns that have kept their meters – Framingham and Natick – have considered ways to modernize them in a world where fewer and fewer

When industry observers reference “smart manufacturing,” Industry 4.0 or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), it is often related to connecting plant floor equipment and analyzing Big Data in an effort to increase quality and efficiency on the production line or in the supply chain. But sometimes it is the most simplistic applications that make

The world internet of things in healthcare market was evaluated at $60.4 billion in 2014, and is estimated to garner $136.8 billion by 2021, registering a CAGR of 12.5% over the forecast period. The report segments the Iot healthcare market on the basis of component, application, end-user and geography.The World Internet of Things in healthcare 

For decades, Indian agriculture scientists have tried and failed to predict onset of deadly diseases to crops. The result is enormous wastage of money and efforts. A study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India says annual crop losses caused by pests and diseases amount to Rs 50,000 crore, which is significant

What should the role of telecom providers be in the so-called Internet of Things? @GoFarley inspired that question with his Tweet about Verizon’s aggressive push into the “Things” part of the Internet. Is being the central nervous system of IoT enough or should a provider extend beyond the telecom network to be the brains (e.g.