Saturday, March 23, 2019
The multitudes faster 5G wireless technology will start rolling out around the globe over the next few years. Under the 4G system, mobile data has grown 17-fold over the past five years. Verizon predicts that 5G will allow data speeds up to 20 times faster than 4G. This means 20 as much data will be […]
Each year I read about the promise of virtual reality / augmented reality (VR/AR) and how this is THE year for the technology to take hold. Most of these predictions center around either gaming or the ability to watch live sporting events in a VR/AR environment. In other words, you can sit at home on […]
Recent incidents involving autonomous vehicle crashes, have made industry participants assume a lower profile. While these setbacks may slow progress in the sector, it does not mean the companies involved are taking their foot off the gas pedal in developing technology to move autonomous vehicles forward. Any advanced technology industry will encounter growing pains, and […]
The main takeaway I got from the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas was that enthusiasm for autonomous (driverless) vehicles among the world’s auto makers has really cooled. Just a year or two ago, car and some tech companies could hardly restrain their excitement over the next revolution in mobility – driverless vehicles. […]
5G wireless service is coming and it will change the world. The new fifth generation of wireless networking is just starting to roll out. 5G will soon start replacing 4G, which has been the standard for wireless data transmission for the last half-decade. If you remember how great it was to go from 3G to […]
The Turing Test, which is considered one of the best ways to identify artificial intelligence (AI), requires that a human being is unable to distinguish a computer from another human being when asking both of them the same questions. It’s a great academic exercise, but not especially helpful in determining which company in the AI […]
If you ask some of the analysts on Wall Street what company is winning the race to build a successful autonomous vehicle, you will usually get an answer that focuses on a technology company. Names like Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOG) or Wall Street darling Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA). Yet to me, […]
Even as technology invades other areas of industry, there has been one notable laggard in adopting new technologies – the energy industry. Even the mining industry is using robots to automate many of the functions at mines, but autonomous robots are still a rarity in the oil and gas industry (more on that later). So […]
Just last week I told you about the new version of its watch by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), which offers a bunch of health features, such as an EKG. The watch though is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to how technology is changing medicine. One area that really has me excited […]
Last week, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) unveiled a trio of new phones that followed in line with its corporate strategy. That is, get buyers to pay higher prices for the phones while hopefully gobbling up more services (such as entertainment) as growth in the global smartphone market slows to a crawl. The iPhone Xs (starting at […]
