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Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard

Qualcomm’s New Bluetooth Audio SoCs Represent Quiet Evolution

Qualcomm is introducing two new Bluetooth audio SoCs that are small enough to fit into earbuds and designed to elevate what the company calls the “truly wireless” consumer experience. While this news is admittedly exciting, it is not Qualcomm’s first foray into earbud-sized Bluetooth audio System-on-Chip (SOCs). The San Diego chipmaker has been semi-quietly partnering with major consumer brands to bring high quality truly wireless audio to consumers for some time now, and this latest generation of Bluetooth audio SoCs is merely the natural evolution of the Qualcomm QCC5100 series and the Qualcomm QCC302x series. That aside, I see even more exciting things ahead for Qualcomm in the Bluetooth audio earbud market. Here’s why.
Daniel Newman

The Evolution of RPA and IA–Futurum Tech Podcast Interview Series

In the latest episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, The Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes three experts to talk about robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent automation (IA). Francis Carden is one of the founders of OpenSpan and is currently VP of Digital Automation and Robotics at Pegasystems. Lee Coulter is CEO of transformAI, and Jon Gilman is CEO of Clear Software. Together, they gave Dan some great insight on the future of RPA and IA.
Daniel Newman

China Chipping Away at Smart Speaker Market as Amazon Maintains Lead

New data on smart speakers show that the market is growing at a fast pace, but it is new entrants, mostly from China that are seeing the biggest growth.
Where Does Audio Fit In The Future Of Marketing?
Daniel Newman

Where Does Audio Fit In The Future Of Marketing?

There’a a lot of talk about audio marketing, but will it ever actually take off? Let’s take a look at what a few experts have to say.
James Kobielus

Apple’s Acquisition of Xnor.ai Aims to Deliver TinyML to Edge Devices

Bringing Xnor.ai into its product portfolio provides Apple with an edge app development tool geared for a wide range of programmers, not just those who are knowledgeable about AI, DL, and ML. Xnor.ai’s SDK allows programmers to easily drop AI-centric code and data libraries into device-based apps. The tool provides a unified abstraction layer for building, compilation, and training of edge AI models that frees developers from having to worry about target-device CPUs and AI accelerators. Beyond that, let’s take a look at what we think is on the horizon for Apple on the acquisition front.
10 Tech Predictions for 2020: Apple, Tesla, Netflix and more
Daniel Newman

10 Tech Predictions for 2020: Apple, Tesla, Netflix and more

With topics like 5G, Cloud and SaaS dominating the conversation in technology in 2020, what will this means for the biggest players in these spaces? Here are 10 predictions for what I expect to happen in tech over the next 12 months.
NRF 2020: 6 Trends Are Driving Big Retail
Daniel Newman

NRF 2020: 6 Trends Are Driving Big Retail

While the explosive growth of Amazon has led to some fairly strong predictions of the demise of retail, you would never have known by walking the halls of New York’s Javitz Center during NRF 2020 this past week. Exploring the biggest trends from NRF 2020.
CES 2020: Consumer-Facing Opportunities Accelerate Evolution of the AI DevOps Toolchain
James Kobielus

CES 2020: Consumer-Facing Opportunities Accelerate Evolution of the AI DevOps Toolchain

CES is not an enterprise-oriented tech event. It hosts a wide range of exhibitors and features a fair number of products and technologies. Chief among these versatile technologies is artificial intelligence (AI), which is in abundance at CES 2020.
Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard

Ringing in 2020 with Consumer Electronics Galore–Futurum Tech Podcast

CES 2020, the Consumer Electronics Show happening this week in Las Vegas, will offer up some winners and some losers – we let you know what to expect. Plus the latest on deep fake technologies, Intel’s quantum computing chips, VMware’s shift to the cloud, and how Russia is edging closer to shutting off the global Internet – all this and more on this week’s edition of the Futurum Tech Podcast.
Daniel Newman

Automation Anywhere & the Future of RPA–Futurum Tech Podcast Interview Series

In this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast — Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes Automation Anywhere’s Chief Strategy Officer, Stephen DeWitt, to discuss RPA and its emerging evolution to intelligence. Automation Anywhere develops robotic process automation (RPA) software, which uses bots to complete important processes.
Shelly Kramer

Always On Surveillance By Way Of That Phone In Your Pocket–Futurum Tech Podcast

Always on surveillance by way of that phone in your pocket (and some creepy data visualizations that’ll give you pause), the bias that’s inherent in facial recognition systems, and a discussion around the Apple, Amazon, Google partnership on smart-home protocols are just a few of the topics covered in the latest Futurum Tech Podcast. Check it out — it might be the most interesting thing you’ve listened to all week.
Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard

The Era of Simultaneous Translation is Upon Us–Futurum Tech Podcast

In this week’s edition of Futurum Tech Podcast we cover the fact that simultaneous translation capabilities are coming to our devices sooner than we might think, Huawei’s sales, Pandora’s move into interactive voice ads, Sam Jackson and Alexa, some data about killer robots that might just give you nightmares, and some exciting new features coming to Android phones in 2020.
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