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The promise and the power of the business-focused IBM Watson digital assistant
Digital assistants today will clearly pale in comparison to what they will evolve into. IBM is leading the charge for this next generation, and it is targeting not the home, but business.
Two vendors now sell iPhone cracking technology – and police are buying
Local and regional police departments and federal agencies are lining up to buy technology from two companies whose products can bypass iPhone security mechanisms.
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The steps to building a digital, services-led organization
With 3 in 4 of the S&P 500 expected to be replaced by 2020, digital transformation has become the talking point in enterprise, from CEOs to CIOs down to line-of-business.
How blockchain could solve the internet privacy problem
Blockchain, with its encrypted and immutable record, will eventually be used create universal digital identities, filled with information that only we will control and that will link back to the issuing banks, governments or even...
Mind-reading tech is here (and more useful than you think!)
Reading brain waves was useless until A.I. got involved. Now mind reading has real-world, practical applications.
Apple’s Siri, HomePod and the voice assistant showdown
The battle of the smart assistants is intensifying, with Siri at the top of the group. How can Apple exploit its advantages to push HomePod higher?
Apple’s Siri: The only search engine you’ll need
Is Apple about to get into search? Probably not in the conventional sense, but Apple’s successful hire of Google’s John Giannandrea shows there’s a new kid in town.
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IDG Enterprise's Digital Edge 50: Pushing Digital Boundaries
Winning projects used technology such as artificial intelligence, IoT, virtual reality/augmented reality, cloud, data analytics and mobile/smart devices to drive business innovation.
Report: AI assistants and chatbots gain traction in the enterprise
Microsoft’s Cortana AI assistant currently leads the charge in the workplace, thanks to Windows 10 integration.
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Technologies that will disrupt business in 2018
From artificial intelligence to augmented reality, these dozen disruptive technologies and trends will begin driving how business gets done at forward-thinking organizations this year.
Facial recognition tech moves from smartphones to the boardroom
With the release of Apple's iPhone X and its Face ID feature, facial recognition technology has become more mainstream – and it's already being piloted by some government agencies and commercial airlines as a friction-free security...
Apple's Business Chat means one day you'll ask HomePod for a bank loan
Nuance Communications explained the huge potential of Apple's Business Chat platform, which one day means we’ll be able to ask our HomePod to arrange our next bank loan.
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Weathering IT's sea change
Emerging tech will roil IT in the coming year. Here's how to survive the tumult.
Wireless charging explained: What is it and how does it work?
Wireless charging technology has been around for more than 100 years, but its inclusion in devices such as Apple's new iPhone line has given it new life. Here's how it works, and why it could soon show up in everything from homes to...
Is wireless charging bad for your smartphone?
With Apple adopting wireless charging in the iPhone 8 and X, many users will be tempted to leave their phones on an inductive charging pad all day. Will that hurt the battery?
Blockchain and cryptocurrency may soon underpin cloud storage
Emerging now: P2P networks that use blockchain to manage cloud storage based on the sharing of excess drive and network capacity on PCs and in data centers. Those who share capacity get free storage – and can be paid in cryptocurrency....
IBM Think 2018 shows how Watson has gone wireless
The IBM Think 2018 conference was like World of Watson 2.0. This year they did a much better job showing how AI, the cloud, IoT and IoTT are using wireless and starting to transform the lives of every business and every consumer.
Blockchain breaks out in the enterprise
The distributed ledger technology that underpins Bitcoin is showing up in a variety of places. Here's what you need to know to understand all the hype.
IBM’s new Watson Assistant targets business with ‘white label’ service
The newest voice-activated A.I. assistant differs from Alexa, Siri, Cortana and others with a white-label service approach that works in the background.
Google is often its own worst enemy
From Google Now to its notification-centric smartwatch vision, it's astonishing how willing Google is to ditch great ideas instead of nurturing them to maturity.
Could these grain-sized computers using blockchain networks thwart counterfeiters?
IBM researchers have created computers the size of a grain of rock salt that could someday be embedded in every product shipped and used to track it and maintain its authenticity.
Google is creating its own Amazon right under our noses
How an innocuous-seeming announcement speaks volumes about Google's shifting ambitions — and its efforts to remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.
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