Author Archives: GilPress
Looking at the Dark Side of the Net
Wired recently reported that hackers posted a “data dump, 9.7 gigabytes in size… to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser.” The data included names, passwords, addresses, profile descriptions and several years of credit card data for … Continue reading
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Google and Alphabet: Invention–and Commerical Success–is not Enough
It looks like most of the publications and pundits of the world had something to say about the surprise-of-the-decade: Google’s transformation into Alphabet (Techmeme provides a sample here). For me, the numerous questions they posed only triggered further questions: Is … Continue reading
The Internet of Things (IoT): 9 Predictions and Facts
A number of new reports on the Internet of Things (IoT) provide a fresh look at the state of this hot market and forecasts for its future impact on the world’s economy. IDC discussed The Internet of Things Mid-Year Review at … Continue reading
What Policy Change Would Accelerate the Benefits of the Internet of Things? (IoT)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8zvkWWcUdA?rel=0] McKinsey Global Institute: Joi Ito: It gets back to open standards, interoperability, and a focus on non-IP-encumbered technology. Jon Bruner: Everyone is looking for clarification on the rules on drones. Renee DiResta: I don’t know that I feel … Continue reading
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Most Hyped Technologies: Self-Driving Cars, Self-Service Analytics, IoT; No More Big Data Buzz
Gartner just released its 2015 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report. It’s our most reliable buzz bellwether, annually defining what’s in and what’s out. At the peak of inflated expectations just two years ago, Big Data was dethroned by the Internet of … Continue reading
What Makes the Internet of Things (IoT) Work (SlideShare)
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On Brontobyte Data and Other Big Words
Source: Datafloq Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum: When Gartner released its annual Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies for 2014, it was interesting to note that big data was now located on the downslope from the “Peak of Inflated Expectations,” while the … Continue reading
Top 10 Programming Languages 2015
Note: Left column shows 2015 ranking; right column shows 2014 ranking. Source: IEEE Spectrum The big five—Java, C, C++, Python, and C#—remain on top, with their ranking undisturbed, but C has edged to within a whisper of knocking Java off … Continue reading
John Markoff on automation, jobs, Deep Learning and AI limitations
My sense, after spending two or three years working on this, is that it’s a much more nuanced situation than the alarmists seem to believe. Brynjolfsson and McAfee, and Martin Ford, and Jaron Lanier have all written about the rapid … Continue reading
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