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Industrial Robotics and the Smart Factory
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Mobile Banking: User Demographics, Frequency of Use, Popular and Missing Features
Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence
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Funding Surge for Robotics Startups
Crunchbase: Thirty-nine US robotics companies raised $519 million in the first quarter of 2017, according to a Crunchbase News analysis. This compares to $553 million raised in all of 2014 by 134 companies, implying that deal sizes are getting larger. … Continue reading
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6 In-Demand Internet of Things (IoT) Security Technologies
Internet of Things (IoT) security breaches have been dominating the headlines lately. WikiLeaks’s trove of CIA documents revealed that internet-connected televisions can be used to secretly record conversations. Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway believes that microwave ovens can spy on you—maybe … Continue reading
Mobile Tipping Point: 50.5% of American Homes have Only Wireless Phones
CDC: The second 6 months of 2016 was the first time that a majority of American homes had only wireless telephones. Preliminary results from the July–December 2016 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that 50.8% of American homes did not … Continue reading
Robots Enjoy Strongest First Quarter on Record in U.S. and Canada
Robotic Industries Association: North American robotics companies posted the strongest ever first-quarter results, according to the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s trade group. Both robot orders and shipments achieved record levels. An all-time high total of 9,773 robots valued … Continue reading
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Data is Eating the World: A New Economy
The Economist: Data are to this century what oil was to the last one: a driver of growth and change. Flows of data have created new infrastructure, new businesses, new monopolies, new politics and—crucially—new economics. Digital information is unlike any … Continue reading