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In this newest episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, my colleagues Sarah Wallace and Shelly Kramer and I discuss Elon Musk’s grand plan for sending people to Mars, and the impact space travel will have on the tech industry. We also discuss Microsoft and Samsung teaming up to bring back the Walkie Talkie, another small company joining with others to protest Apple’s anti-competitive practices, Google’s online coding course designed to train workers for tech jobs, and Mojo Vision and augmented reality for contacts. Give us a listen, we’d love to know what you think.
Intel outperformed in the 4th quarter of its fiscal year with big revenue beats on data center and a surprise performance in Client Compute. Analyzing Q4.
A new data privacy proposal points the way toward a compromise between tech companies and users. I see in this proposal a template for what could become a model for universal data privacy and online safety requirements, and unpack the key elements in this analysis. Ideally, technology platforms would adopt this approach all on their own, but if they cannot, or will not, legislatures and regulatory bodies around the world may begin to feel growing pressure to step in and compel them to do so.
Is CES better called ‘The Connected Ecosystem’? Our thoughts on that post-show, the good and the bad about AI being the dominant focus of CES this year, along with highlights from Intel and its third generation CPU-based edge AI, Deeplite’s automation of neural networks that are the heart of machine learning, exciting things to expect this year from Android (and Samsung), stats on the state of the wearables market, and more good stuff in this week’s episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast.
This week Qualcomm launched 3 new Snapdragon platforms to support the growth of 4G. This came despite 5G's arrival and has a strong market value.
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.
IBM had a strong earnings report for its fiscal 4th quarter in 2019. The earnings popped on strong results in systems covering for shortfalls elsewhere.
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.
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.
During NRF 2020 Oracle showed a new tools called Customer Insights that can help retailers predict their best future customers. Exploring the announcement.
Salesforce, this past Thursday launched its Trailhead Playground designed to help developers and admins to build on Salesforce 360 environment.
Microsoft has launched its new chromium based Edge browser. This research note looks at the pros of the browser and its likelihood of gaining adoption.
