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The global pandemic stunted progress in many nascent companies and industries. Internet of Things (IoT) projects, for example, like the installation of a 5G mobile infrastructure that fully enables IoT functionality, might also have been deprioritized as world economies tanked. Instead, there’s a rapidly growing...
Experts think that far from a bad economy slowing down smart-city investments, the need to prepare for the next crisis will promote even faster infrastructure upgrades. In the latest Intelligence of Things Tracker, Michael Lotfy, senior vice president of smart-buildings solutions for global electrical-technology company...
The rise of the machines seems a bit closer at hand now that we are battling the pandemic. Not the humanoids that are the stuff of science fiction that ostensibly, one day, will do our bidding (and, depending on who you read, perhaps conspire against...
May 12, 2020
The rise of the machines seems a bit closer at hand now that we are battling the pandemic. Not the humanoids that are the stuff of science fiction that ostensibly, one day, will do our bidding (and, depending on who you read, perhaps conspire against us). Picture, instead, fleets of utilitarian machines, squat, careful and […]
April 28, 2020
The house (or the apartment or the studio or your parents’ basement) is increasingly becoming a focal point of daily life. Time, then, to picture the house as a bit...
February 25, 2019
There’s room for payment technology providers to marry speed and safety as IoT transforms the way consumers receive and make payments. According to NMI CEO Vijay Sondhi, government efforts can...
December 27, 2018
More isn’t always more. As the Intelligence of Things (IoT) market grows, there are more IoT devices providing more data. However, that doesn’t mean customers are any more ready to...
June 09, 2020
China’s Tencent is looking to build its own city, called Net City, including corporate offices, apartments and a school on a 21-million-square-foot development the size of midtown Manhattan, The Wall Street Journal reported. Jonathan Ward, design partner for project architect NBBJ, said the idea is a “sustainable city of the future,” WSJ reported. The multinational […]
February 07, 2020
An Energy and Commerce subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives is going to get together Tuesday (Feb. 11) to figure out self-driving car legislation, according to a report by...
November 08, 2017
As of today, the trucking industry is facing a severe shortage of workers. The digital economy has created a boom in the shipping industry, and it is having a hard...
April 19, 2017
Pegasystems, the software company, announced Tuesday (April 18) the launch of Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant, an artificial intelligence-powered (AI) bot that turns applications into smart assistants on a slew of...