Recent press around Nest has mostly revolved around its corporate changes, from former CEO Tony Fadell stepping down to shutting down Revolv, a smart home network it acquired. Finally, we have some news regarding product. Nest has announced a new outdoor version of its security camera that’s…
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Norway has an ambitious plan to ease the congestion of local ferries by building a series of underwater tunnels that allow travelers to cross the nations bodies of water. The “submerged floating bridges” would consist of large tubes suspended by pontoon-like support structures 100 feet below water.…
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A simple data connection is going revolutionise our roads Forget smartphones. Cars are fast becoming the ultimate connected device, thanks to improved data access, traffic management in the cloud and intelligent in-car integration of myriad new features. To find out how cars are becoming increasingly connected,…
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Apple just gave everyone the opportunity to try out its public beta of iOS 10, and it’s a big update to its mobile operating system. There are plenty of new features, some weird quirks, and bugs here or there (it is beta after all). But after giving it a test drive,…
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Much of the investment money for the technology has come from Russian backers. Last month in St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin said he would promote Elon Musk’s Hyperloop technology, which aims to create vacuum tubes for the rapid transportation of people and goods. “He expressed big interest…
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The field of artificial intelligence has been a boom market almost from its beginning 60 years ago with the brilliant but doomed British mathematician Alan Turing. One branch of AI believes that a computer will one day duplicate how the human brain works, once the technical…
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It’s taken a minute, but this is the year when Apple’s and Google’s in-car solutions for smartphone integration finally started to show up. You can now go out and buy a car that has support for CarPlay or Android Auto, plug in your phone, and drive…
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Facebook and Microsoft are laying a massive cable across the middle of the Atlantic. Dubbed MAREA—Spanish for “tide”—this giant underwater cable will stretch from Virginia to Bilbao, Spain, shuttling digital data across 6,600 kilometers of ocean. Providing up to 160 terabits per second of bandwidth—about 16…
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Get ready for artificial intelligence and automation that helps you make business decisions rather than just understanding what happened in the past Business intelligence has gone from static reports that tell you what happened, to interactive dashboards where you can drill into information to try and…
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Encryption is a vital self-defense tool, so here’s how to enable it on all your devices and computers running the major OSes The FBI’s inability to crack a terrorist’s iPhone 5c shows the strong protection you can get for your private information on a mobile device.…
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