Amazon recently won patents for wristbands that could be used as part of an inventory system, communicating with equipment in warehouses and nudging employees via vibrations if, for example, they were about to place items in the wrong bins. But in a world where the legal limits on gathering and using people’s data remain largely undefined,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2019
IoT is Coming Even if the Security Isn’t Ready: Here’s What to Do
In a May study of 553 IT decision makers, 78% said they thought it was at least somewhat likely that their businesses would suffer data loss or theft enabled by IoT devices. Some 72% said the speed at which IoT is advancing makes it harder to keep up with evolving security requirements. Source: Wired Magazine Date: February 28th, 2019… Read more »
Digital advertising to surpass print, TV for the first time
The top two digital advertisers in the United States — Google and Facebook — are expected to maintain their dominant hold on ad dollars, as the tech giants’ combined ad revenue will command about 59 per cent of the market, according to forecasts by eMarketer. The increase in digital ad dollars will come, in part,… Read more »
Regina FIFA eSports competitor warms up for $50K international tournament by crushing CBC reporter
Every year tens of millions of people play FIFA, the world’s biggest soccer video game. A 17-year-old from Regina is one of the very best. Alex Gonzalez-Aldana, who goes by the in-game handle ExraaCA, is in Atlanta this weekend to compete in a 64-person tournament with a $50,000 top prize. A win, or even an… Read more »
Could hackers ‘brainjack’ your memories in future?
Imagine being able to scroll through your memories like an Instagram feed, reliving with vivid details your favourite life moments and backing up the dearest ones. Now imagine a dystopian version of the same future in which hackers hijack these memories and threaten to erase them if you don’t pay a ransom. It might sound… Read more »
The robot that learned how to skate on ice
Robots can walk, climb, and even open doors. But can they iceskate? Well, it seems now they can. Stelian Coros, a professor at the Computational Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, says the only thing his team did was to tell the robot how one skate behaved on the ice, and that it was free to… Read more »
The speed of technological innovation has seemingly compressed time.
The speed of technological innovation has seemingly compressed time. Peter Coffee, VP of Strategic Research at Salesforce.com, has the job of predicting what’s next in technology, what forces we should be afraid of, what issues we are wasting our time on, and how we should prepare for all of it. Source: A New Angle Date: February 12th, 2019… Read more »
A story of digital transformation: Accenture assists Carlsberg in cloud transition
Jakob From, vice president of transformation, operation and CIO, Western Europe, at Carlsberg said: “We had the opportunity to make a major change because the maintenance contracts for our data centre infrastructure were up for renewal. “The goal of the project was to create a foundation for our entire IT infrastructure. Carlsberg has existed for… Read more »
Homeowner’s Blood ‘Ran Cold’ as Smart Cameras, Thermostat Hacked
A Lake Barrington homeowner hasn’t had a restful night’s sleep in 10 days, after he said his Nest home security cameras and thermostats were accessed by malicious hackers. “I couldn’t believe that these devices that I had put up in my home to watch over it, my family, were now being used against me,”… Read more »
Tracking sanctions-busting ships on the high seas
For a long time, being out at sea meant being out of sight and out of reach. And all kinds of shenanigans went on as a result – countries secretly selling oil and other goods to countries they’re not supposed to under international sanctions rules, for example, not to mention piracy and kidnapping. The problem… Read more »
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