Projects outside of Google’s core (Google search engine and Android) were molded into separate Alphabet companies with their own CEO. These “moonshot” projects cover anything and everything from creating smarter homes to making robots that can work alongside humans.

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The Internet of Things has dominated CES for the third year in a row. Well over 900 companies out of 3,800 at the show said they had Internet of Things products. Here are some of the predictions for the Internet of Things within the near future.

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This no longer poses as a radical question. However, what are the implications of humans living for such an extensive amount of time?

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Humans are producing the equivalent of 10 million Blu-ray discs’ worth of data every day. The challenge is finding where to store all of those ones and zeros. UK researchers think they might have found the solution: a five-dimensional digital data disc that stores 360 terabytes of data for about 13.8 billion years.

Continue reading… “Glass disc that can store 360TB of data for 13.8 billion years”

IBM recently announced its new technology and business consulting initiatives that will rapidly advance the use of ledger technology across multiple industries. They will be deploying a Blockchain-As-A-Service offering for developers.

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A product isn’t a real business for Mark Zuckerberg until it has at least a billion users. During Facebook’s third-quarter earnings call in 2014, Zuckerberg stated “This may sound a little ridiculous to say, but for us, products don’t really get that interesting to turn into businesses until they have about 1 billion people using them.” Look and see who is currently in the three-comma club and who is up-and-coming.

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How will life be in the future? Will we still have the jobs we have today? Will relationships be strictly between humans or will it evolve to include robots?

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As technology progresses, fields such as construction become more efficient in terms of time and cost. This new construction robot has the power to not only complete repetitive tasks quickly, but it can adapt to real jobsite conditions.

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A recent $2 million settlement with Lumosity is only one of four cases the Federal Trade Commission has brought in the past year. Expect to see many more to come in the future.

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Shipping containers have been used for everything from playgrounds, art, and even housing. A Boston company is now recycling the containers into high-tech mobile farms. This is all part of an effort from a new wave of companies to bring more innovation to agriculture.

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Thousands and thousands of people across the globe are constantly looking for the new diet or pill that will help them lose weight. Little do they know that the future of obesity prevention could potentially lie within human waste. Some may find this hard to swallow.

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Artists, designers, composers, and coders share all of the technological and digital developments that are sure to have a huge impact this year.

Continue reading… “Key trends for 2016 in art, culture, creativity and tech”