Tag: technology
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Everyone Is Talking About the Future of Work. Here Are 4 Ways to Take Your Company Into the Future Now.
byStudies suggest that the most valuable employees in the future will be those able to regularly and rapidly learn new skills. Forty-seven percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being automated within the next 20 years, according to researchers at Oxford University. Their studies suggest that the most valuable employees in the future will not […]
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Amazon asked to share Echo data in US murder case
byA judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women died. Their bodies were found under the porch of a home in New Hampshire with multiple stab wounds. The man accused of their murder has pleaded not guilty and is […]
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Apple finds quality problems in some iPhone X and MacBook models
byApple Inc said on Friday it had found some issues affecting some of its iPhone X and 13-inch MacBook pro products and said the company would fix them free of charge. The repair offers are the latest in a string of product quality problems over the past year even as Apple has raised prices for […]
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Man sent letter bomb to Bitcoin firm ‘over password reset’
byA man has been jailed for sending a “potentially lethal homemade bomb” to a Bitcoin firm in London – after it refused to reset his password for him. The Met Police, which investigated the case, said detectives could “only identify one possible reason” for the Swedish national’s actions. He had emailed the company, Cryptopay, in […]
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Why the Google Walkout Was a Watershed Moment in Tech
byBy F Manjoo Outsiders have little leverage to force the industry to change. The companies’ own workers are another matter. For a few hours last Thursday, just about everything at Google ground to a halt. At 11 a.m. local time in a movement that rolled like an angry and jubilant tide around the globe, more than 20,000 […]
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Is a Single Global Blockchain Platform Already Coming Into the Picture? Here Are the Signs
byBlockchain Technology is already in its 3rd generation of new projects and startups such as EOS, Cardano, Elastos, ICON, Ontology, Neo and hundreds of others already in existence with more coming up, the likes of GALLACTIC Blockchain, an innovative multi-chain platform. So when will the day come where a single blockchain will rule over all […]
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Harley-Davidson’s electric LiveWire debuts in Italy
byHarley-Davidson has revealed a little more information about the production version of its upcoming electric LiveWire at the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan, Italy. The bike on display at the show sports the same modern sporty design of the concept, with a trellis frame, mono-shock rear suspension and a low-slung electric motor painted silver to […]
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Robots Have a Diversity Problem
byMost social robots today are white, feminine, and subservient. But a few are bucking the trend. She wants to garden, she has studied the concept of love, and she dreams of pizza. BINA48, as you might guess from her name, is not a human, but a robot. There’s something else that makes BINA48 truly distinct, and it has […]
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Apple’s ‘Recycled’ Macs Aren’t What They Seem
byThe company’s move to recycled aluminum is good PR… and that’s about it Apple is washing itself green. The tech company announced Tuesday that it will build its new MacBook Air and Mac Mini computers using “100 percent recycled aluminum.” The move is part of a goal Apple set in 2017 to use only renewable or recycled materials in […]
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Why Uber and Lyft Want to Create Walled Gardens–and Why It’s Bad for Urban Mobility
byAs ride-hailing apps begin to control scooters and bike shares, they’re making it harder for people to make the best decisions about how to move around their cities If you’re not a techie, you may not have come across the term “walled garden” before. But it’s a critical concept these days in technology business strategy–and it […]
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