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Wearables are today all about wellness
Forrester Research: US consumer adoption of wearable devices will reach 29% in 2021, up from 18% last year, according to a new Forrester Data forecast. Today the vast majority of consumers who own and use wearables have a health or … Continue reading
The Rise of the ‘Tech’ Giants
Financial Times: [August 1, 2016] was something of a red-letter day for the tech industry. When the stock market closed, the five most valuable companies on the planet were, for the first time, technology concerns. And they all hailed from … Continue reading
No End to Moore’s Law
IEEE Spectrum: This final ITRS report is titled ITRS 2.0. The name reflects the idea that improvements in computing are no longer driven from the bottom-up, by tinier switches and denser or faster memories. Instead, it takes a more top-down approach, focusing … Continue reading
Machine Learning, Artist’s Rendition
[vimeo 176389707 w=640 h=360] Motherboard: Jakob Werner, a 22-year-old animator and visual design student in Germany, decided to interpret the idea of machine learning a bit more literally “in order to create a sarcastic view at our society and into … Continue reading
Pokemon Go Market to Reach $56.8 Billion by 2020
MarketsAndMarkets: According to a new market research report “Augmented Reality Market by Component (Sensor, Display, & Software), Display Type (Head Mounted, Head-Up, Handheld, & Spatial), Application (Aerospace & Defense, Consumer, Commercial), and Geography – Global Forecast to 2020”, the total … Continue reading
Print Vs Digital (Infographic)
Brian Wallace: When you reach for your book at the end of the day, is it paperback or electronic? Though eBooks were slated to overtake print books in 2015 it just didn’t happen. There was a 10% drop in eBook … Continue reading
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The Data on FinTech Adoption
EY: We surveyed more than 10,000 digitally active people in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States to better understand the overall rate of FinTech adoption, which users are adopting which products and the outlook … Continue reading
AI and IoT Among Disruptive Enterprise Technologies to Watch
Dion Hinchcliffe: In my analysis, all of the listed technologies should be on the short list of organizations in the process of digital transformation, which is to say enterprises that are proactively on a concerted effort to become more technology-centric … Continue reading
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25 Most-Funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) Startups
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Wearable adoption more than doubled in past two years
VB: The adoption of wearables has skyrocketed, rising from 21 percent of the U.S. population in 2014 to 49 percent in 2016, according to a report by consulting firm PwC. And parents are significantly more likely to own not just … Continue reading