Xbox 720
Most people are pretty happy with the available gadgets on the market. Phones can do almost anything, cars nearly drive themselves and video games have never looked more fantastic.
How much better can it get?
Continue reading… “Top 10 most anticipated tech gadgets for 2013”
Apple iPods
They were launched over a decade ago and were the forefront of the digital revolution. But sales of iPods and other MP3 players in the UK slumped by more than a fifth in 2012 while consumers turned to smartphones as their gadget of choice.
Continue reading… “MP3 players are a dead technology”
The enchanted era of geographic gaffes is coming to an end.
Tens of millions of iPhone users last week found that they could suddenly leave their homes again without getting either lost or cross. Google was finally able to release an app containing its own mapping system. Google Maps had been sorely missed for several months, ever since Apple booted it in favor of the company’s own inadequate alternative—a cartographic dud blamed for everything from deleting Shakespeare’s birthplace to stranding Australian travelers in a desolate national park 43 miles away from their actual destination. As one Twitter wag declared: “I wouldn’t trade my Apple Maps for all the tea in Cuba.”
Continue reading… “The end of the paper map”
Data scientists serve as the gatekeepers and mediators between the systems and the domain experts.
There are many articles today about how big data in the U.S. is suffering from a crucial shortage of data scientists. The 2011 McKinsey & Co. survey pointed out that many organizations lack both the skilled personnel needed to mine big data for insights and the structures and incentives required to use big data to make informed decisions and act on them.
Continue reading… “If big data was easier to use we wouldn’t need more data scientists”
QuadCopter
War isn’t the only thing drones can be used for. Companies like FedEx are counting the days until drones are admitted to standard US airspace. The FAA will officially allow it starting in 2015, but the drones cannot fly higher than 400 feet above the ground and must be at least five miles away from any airport.
Continue reading… “Personal drones are coming”
About 112,000 natural-gas powered vehicles are now on U.S. roads.
Chesapeake Energy Corp. said it is working with General Electric Co GE and Whirlpool Corp. to develop a $500 appliance that will allow natural-gas powered cars to be refueled at their owners’ homes.
Continue reading… “Energy company developing home refueling appliance for natural-gas cars”
There are more cellphone users in Africa than in North America.
When you are a developing continent you can skip entire stages of technological progress, like going directly from no phones to cellphones without suffering through land lines in between. Africa, for example, now has more mobile subscribers than the United States or Europe, and that means big things for African economies.
Continue reading… “Africa has more cellphone users than all of North America”
The study finds that 0.5% of global data is analyzed, and just half of data requiring security measures is protected.
In 2012, the global data supply reached 2.8 zettabytes (ZB) – or 2.8 trillion GB – but just 0.5% of this is used for analysis, according to the Digital Universe Study.
Continue reading… “Less than 1% of the world’s data is analyzed, over 80% is unprotected: Study”
New refrigerator factory at GE’s Appliance Park.
General Electric’s storied Appliance Park, in Louisville, Kentucky, for much of the past 10 years, appeared less like a monument to American manufacturing prowess than a memorial to it.
But after years of offshore production, General Electric is moving much of its far-flung appliance-manufacturing operations back home. It is not alone. An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States.
Continue reading… “The insourcing boom – bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.”
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What if a computer could let us “feel” the texture of a fabric before we buy clothes online? Or gives us a whiff or taste of a meal we’re thinking of preparing? it’s all within the realm of possibility in the next 5 years, according to IBM’s list of technologies it thinks are on the cusp of adoption.
Continue reading… “Five technologies IBM predicts will be possible in the next 5 years”
Google glass
The top five most disruptive technologies in 2012 include energy storage technology no one thought would ever work, gesture-based interfaces that will make touch screens look as quaint as floppy disks, and computers and connectivity so cheap they’re adding billions more people to the internet. For a technology to make it onto this list, it didn’t have to be invented in 2012; in many cases, it’s enough that there was a significant development this year in its journey toward rewriting our relationship with machines and each other.
Continue reading… “Top 5 most disruptive technologies of 2012”
Facebook became involved in the fight after botnets also targeted the social network.
According to an announcement this week, the FBI arrested 10 people associated with the a crime ring pushing the malware Yahos. The malware has affected over 11 million people. Facebook’s security team helped the FBI by identifying both the criminals and the victims.
Continue reading… “Facebook helps FBI bust botnet crime ring”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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