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The Bosch projection, courtesy Bosch. Monday was another media day at CES and I woke up planning to hit Bosch’s event and Qualcomm’s. Kevin was heading to Samsung’s. Only I didn’t make mine. After breakfast, my eyes swelled shut so I spent my morning doped up on Benadryl. But this wasn’t a huge loss. You …
Our Google Home in the place of honor between the living room and kitchen. In mid-December, my family went cold turkey on Alexa in both our kitchen and living room. Alexa still reigns in the bedrooms, but we removed the Echo Show to try out life with a Google Home, as we had been growing …
With 2019 underway, I think it’s safe to say that 2018 was a big year for digital assistants and smart speakers in the home. And the coming years will likely continue that trend based on usage forecasts: eMarketer suggests a 15 percent increase in smart speaker usage for 2019, with an estimated 74.2 million people U.S. …
Denver has a great idea for anonymizing location data. I get it. Not everyone listens to podcasts. So to make sure you don’t miss some of the best ideas I’ve heard in consumer, enterprise, and industrial IoT, I’m compiling them in a year-end story to enable you to walk away smarter and ready to take …
Uber’s autonomous cars generate 4 TB of data a day. Image courtesy of Uber. Wireless broadband is hard. Sure, we rely entirely on it now, but the ability to move packets around a network took years of R&D and engineering work to make happen. First we did it for cellular, then we did it again …
The Open 19 architecture. Image courtesy of the Open 19 Foundation. OK y’all, it’s time to get excited about servers. Before I lived for the internet of things, I lived for hyperscale data centers and server news. Today — after watching Yuval Bachar from LinkedIn explain a hardware project for edge computing called Open 19— I’m combining …
Joanna Goodman reports from last week’s Digital ethics summit. Governments, national and international institutions and businesses must join forces to make sure that AI and emerging technology are deployed successfully and responsibly. This was the central message from TechUK’s second Digital Ethics Summit in London. Antony Walker, TechUK’s deputy CEO set out the purpose of …
Co-founder of Google Brain and former Chief Scientist at Baidu, Andrew Ng, has unveiled an AI Transformation Playbook. The guide to successfully adopting AI in enterprise draws on insights gained from leading AI teams at Google and Baidu. Andrew Ng claims that, “it is possible for any enterprise to follow this Playbook and become a …
Internet of Business’s comprehensive guide to where Industry 4.0 will lead manufacturers in the year ahead. Most manufacturers believe they are leading their markets in Industry 4.0 technologies, despite evidence to the contrary. There is a huge gap between the many companies that are exploring digital manufacturing strategies – via technologies such as automation, robotics, …
Internet of Business’s comprehensive guide to where Industry 4.0 will lead manufacturers in the year ahead. Most manufacturers believe they are leading their markets in Industry 4.0 technologies, despite evidence to the contrary. There is a huge gap between the many companies that are exploring digital manufacturing strategies – via technologies such as automation, robotics, …
Data on industrial IoT funding since 2013 from CB Insights. Fewer companies are raising more money. Back in 2015, venture firms started getting excited about the industrial IoT. Subsequently, from the start of that year’s first quarter through the end of the first quarter of 2016, companies invested more than $2.7 billion in industrial IoT …
UK supermarket chain Waitrose is planning to deploy autonomous robots, from Shropshire-based robotics start-up Small Robot Company, to farm its Leckford Estate. The Telegraph reports that the three-year trial, will see three types of robot, known as Tom, Dick and Harry, analyse, plant and weed crops at the 4,000 acre farm near Stockbridge, Hampshire. Tom …
Bringing new IoT products to market isn’t easy. There are are myriad considerations, not least the task of integrating various devices and services and having them speak the same language. That’s where IoT marketplace mozaiq comes in. Mozaiq was founded by ABB, Bosch and Cisco in 2016, and now has more than 100 connected services and …
These adorable connected dolls from Vai Kai have earned the Trustable Tech Mark. Image courtesy of Vai Kai. I’ve been writing a lot about privacy and security for IoT devices in the last few months (and frankly, in the last few years), and today’s startup profile also hits that sweet spot. But instead of a …
The CB Insights quadrants for advanced manufacturing. Image courtesy of CB Insights. Edge computing, computer vision, and cobots will have a huge impact on industrial manufacturing in the coming year and beyond, according to a new report out by CB Insights. The report delves into tech trends facing the industrial and manufacturing world and places them …
The rise in remote medicine will require more connected devices and raise questions about how patient data is shared. Connected medical devices are coming. The FDA has developed protocols for regulating them, and so far the benefits seem to outweigh the costs. But as with all connected devices, the data they collect and how that …
Please forgive me if you’ve already seen the “Iron Man” movies already. If you haven’t, you’re missing out on not just a good superhero flick but also a possible glimpse of the future for digital assistants. In the Marvel movie series, Jarvis — that’s the super-computer assistant of Tony Stark, aka; Iron Man — starts …
The insights offered by Big Data are key to many businesses today. Getting the information that’s hidden within it isn’t easy but there are plenty of companies set up to help organisations do just that. Trifacta is one such company. It specialises in cleaning and preparing data, ready for it to be mined for key information, …