From endlessly scanning social media sites to incessantly checking emails, we don’t always have the healthiest relationship with technology, we tote around serious digital baggage day after day that wreaks havoc on our minds and bodies. Continue reading… “Here’s what to know before starting a digital detox”
Last year a group of Swiss artists thought it would be cool to program a bot to scour the “dark web” and buy $100 worth of random goods each week using a regular Bitcoin allowance. Items purchased by the robot include a Hungarian passport, a baseball hat that had a hidden camera installed, someone’s entire Lord of the Rings eBook collection, and some ecstasy tablets. Continue reading… “Cops arrest robot that bought ecstasy with Bitcoins”
Executives most likely spend a lot of time thinking about how the internet and automation are changing the nature of employment, but they rarely wonder how technology will have an impact much closer to home: on their own jobs. Continue reading… “How managers could be replaced by software”
Futurist Thomas Frey: What if the things you were thinking about buying already knew you were considering a purchase? Much like going on a date, where the person you were dating wanted to look their best for you, what if the product went through a similar process, primping it’s hair and donning an inviting smile to present itself in the best possible light? Continue reading… “When the “Things” we buy know more about us than we know about them”
A lot of us have started to take it for granted that we’re surrounded by sensors that are connected to the Internet. Smartphones are packed with these sensors motion, orientation, and various environmental conditions are recorded by these sensors. Continue reading… “Coming soon to an airline near you, the internet of things”
Online education provider Udacity launched its Nanodegree program last year. Partnering with AT&T, the initiative’s goal is to help people develop focused vocational specialties in a short period of time.
NOTE: Anyone interested in learning to code, DaVinci Coders offers multiple courses designed to get you into the rapidly growing technology industry. For more info please visit davincicoders.com. Continue reading… “New Nanodegree program for iOS developers from Udacity”
Jonathan Vaux from Visa says that soon we’re all going to be buying things with our fridge. Continue reading… “Visa: we’re all going to have internet-connected fridges in the future”
NeuroVigil with it’s iBrain portable neural monitor, high resolution and high throughput software algorithms to seek out changes in neurobiological activity from a single sensor, partnered with the American Senior Housing Association (ASHA) to gather tremendous quantities of new and highly useful data. Continue reading… “Thousands of brains going online”
Who are the companies that are shaping the future of crypto-tech computing, decentralized services, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and the Blockchain? How many are there? Continue reading… “Bitcoin and the crypto-technology landscape”
It’s probably worth paying attention when Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates all agree on something. All three have been waring us of the potential dangers that come with artificial intelligence. Continue reading… “What will happen when AI meets the internet of things?”
The digital currency and network protocol, Bitcoin, has commanded a great deal of attention lately. Money has poured into Bitcoin related businesses from investors, and many people believe that it will has the same disruptive potential today as the internet did in the mid-1990s. So what does education have to do with Bitcoin? Continue reading… “What can Bitcoin teach us about education”
According to Google, one is twenty searches is for health information. For a lot of people, the internet has become the first place to look when a strange symptom, the common cold, or morbid curiosity in the ‘Google Images’ bar strikes. Continue reading… “Can Google’s new health search change how we manage health?”
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