Many of the more than 100,000 robots across Amazon’s fulfillment centers are designed to accommodate some interaction with people. Sensor-enabled path planning and obstacle avoidance are front-line defenses against robot-involved accidents. Read more in ZDnet 2019 is the year robotics…
As we approach the end of the second decade of this millennium, technology is evolving faster than ever before. These exponential times will have a profound effect on what it means to be human and how we manage organisations and…
Blockchain is expected to be so influential over the coming years that some technologists foresee it ushering in a new type of Internet, one that stores and authenticates information about every asset, device and individual, opening the door to a…
A company in Wisconsin has become the first in the US to roll out microchip implants for all its employees, and says it’s expecting over 50 of its staff members to be voluntarily ‘chipped’ next week. The initiative, which is…
Small IT teams can focus on working closely with product managers and customers on new products and services, speeding up iterations and time to market. By organizing as closely as possible to customer products and services, the technology function can…
Vein scans, eye scans, fingerprint scans, facial recognition , biometrics and more up the security game. Read about them in zdnet
One of the original IoT projects, even before the phrase ”internet of things” was coined, was the smart grid. Smart grids are an electricity supply network that use digital communications technology to monitor and react to changes in usage. Electric…
The electricity industry is in the midst of a transformation, as technology and innovation disrupt traditional models from generation to beyond the meter.What consumers want and expect from their energy providers has also evolved rapidly. A sizeable portion of today’s…
Facial recognition in criminal justice relies on a database—a big data dataset that contains photographs of potential matches. The software uses facial measurements to compare existing photos to the crime scene photos—making calculations in a fraction of a second to…
The past year was not a great one for women’s health technology. First there was the Bluetooth-enabled “smart tampon” that raised eyebrows with its clunky and impractical design. Then came security concerns that hackers might be able to access private…
