One year old, but one year wiser? On Aug. 10, 2015, Google announced that it was folding itself into a new parent company, which it was calling Alphabet. A year later, it’s not entirely clear what’s really changed. While CEO Larry Page didn’t make it entirely clear why the name was chosen (although perhaps it […]
If you’re a high-tech homeowner, chances are the contents of your garage aren’t so shabby either. So of course, it’s just good sense for Amazon Echo’s Alexa digital assistant to control not only your smart home, but your car as well. And now, if that car is a BMW, Alexa will do just that. Sometime
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Padtronix editors will be installing the new Sensi Thermostat by Emerson in the Smart Pad. Keep an eye out for a detailed review of Sensi in the next couple days.
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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
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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
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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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