Amazon (AMZN) has been awarded a patent for a giant flying warehouse that acts as a launchpad for drones to deliver items within minutes. The U.S. e-commerce giant described plans for an "airborne fulfillment center" (AFC) such as an airship or blimp that would float at an altitude of arou...
- Friday, 30 December 2016 12:17
- By Jeremy Frink
Given the failures of professional pollsters to predict anything of late, I am loath to be your crystal ball for the year’s upcoming tech developments. Those who imagined a revolution last year fuelled by the Apple Watch, heralding the death of the Swiss watch industry, have been proven mightily w...
- Friday, 30 December 2016 10:29
- By Wushe Zhiyang
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The first computers cost millions of dollars and were locked inside rooms equipped with special electrical circuits and air co...
- Friday, 30 December 2016 08:09
- By Eric Beaudoin
Rather than leading to the violent downfall of humankind, artificial intelligence is helping people around the world do their jobs, including doctors who diagnose sepsis in patients and scientists who track endangered animals in the wild, experts said Thursday (Oct. 13) at the White House Frontiers ...
- Friday, 30 December 2016 07:20
- By Grace Irwin
Ye old crystal ball faired pretty well last year as many of my tech predictions came to pass. Pokémon Go was an augmented reality hit. Smart car hype reached a fevered pitch. And Yahoo agreed to sell its core business to Verizon, meaning Marissa Mayer and Silicon Valley’s longest running soa...
- Friday, 30 December 2016 02:02
- By Anna K. Sasaki
The Echo, Amazon’s voice-controlled speaker, was a big hit this holiday season. Amazon is keeping specific sales figures under wraps, but the company says it sold nine times as many Echo devices during the holidays as it did a year earlier. It’s the latest example of Amazon pioneering ...
- Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:09
- By Paul L.
Take an advanced technology. Add a twist of fantasy. Stir well, and watch the action unfold. It’s the perfect recipe for a Hollywood tech-disaster blockbuster. And clichéd as it is, it’s the scenario that we too often imagine for emerging technologies. Think superintelligent machines, lab-bred ...
- Thursday, 29 December 2016 11:58
- By Anna K. Sasaki
Technology is truly wonderful, and it keeps evolving at a very fast pace. However, not every technology is fated to be successful. Some technologies which are overhyped during its launch simply fizzle out, while others seem to be growing popular initially but later they flame out. Since 2016 i...
- Wednesday, 28 December 2016 07:13
- By Rebecca Jenkins
2016 has seen many significant strides in technology and some major setbacks. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 debacle showed us the grim consequences tech failures can lead to. The rise of Donald Trump to soon-to-be president of United States raised eyebrows of the tech-...
- Wednesday, 28 December 2016 07:00
- By Paul L.
Google just started rolling out the so-called “mobile-first” index. It’s going to change the way that your site gets ranked in the search engine results pages (SERPs). Here are a things you need to know about the mobile-first index so that you can optimize your website accordingly. What is th...
- Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:49
- By Corey Parker
In 2016, security professionals and consumers alike became increasingly wary of mobile threats, as malicious apps continued to infiltrate app stores. In the year ahead, malware, ransomware, and remote-access tools will grow more sophisticated, according to a report from McAfee, giving user...
- Tuesday, 27 December 2016 00:29
- By Anna K. Sasaki
Apple's list of the 10 most downloaded free apps of 2016 is a great place to start if you just got a new iPhone or iPad, and want to make sure you've got the apps all your friends probably already have. One note — Apple published its list in early December, so the smash hit Super Mario Run wasn't ...
- Monday, 26 December 2016 05:49
- By Anthony Frank
Those innocent-looking apps in your smartphone can secretly spy on your communications or could allow hackers to do so. Hard to believe, but it's true. Recently, Trustwave's SpiderLabs analysts discovered a hidden backdoor in Skype for Apple's macOS and Mac OS X operating systems that could be used ...
- Monday, 26 December 2016 05:45
- By Anna K. Sasaki
Users are still dealing with the Yahoo's massive data breach that exposed over 1 Billion Yahoo accountsand there’s another shocking news about the company that, I bet, will blow your mind. Yahoo might have provided your personal data to United States intelligence agency when required. Yahoo...
- Monday, 26 December 2016 05:43
- By Patrick Moore
Forget about security! It turns out that the Chip-and-PIN cards are just as easy to clone as magnetic stripe cards. It took researchers just a simple chip and pin hack to withdraw up to $50,000 in cash from an ATM in America in under 15 minutes. We have been told that EMV (Europay, MasterCard and V...
- Monday, 26 December 2016 03:08
- By Daniel K. Henry
Large platform companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft want to provide the operating system for our lives, and they will fight hard in 2017 to establish their foothold in the emerging technologies we will likely come to rely on in the future. Who will succeed? Those with the mos...
- Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:38
- By Jennifer Levin
Back in March, scientists detected 10 powerful bursts of radio signals coming from the same location in space. And now researchers have just picked up six more of the signals seemingly emanating from the same region, far beyond our Milky Way. These fast radio bursts (FRB) are some of the most elusiv...
- Saturday, 24 December 2016 05:58
- By Daniel K. Henry
CALIFORNIA – After launching a new update to the Photos web app on the iCloud beta website earlier this month, Apple has now rolled out the update to all users (via Mac Generation). The overhaul to the app on iCloud.com introduces a macOS-like Photos experience with a sidebar that can be toggled o...
- Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:00
- By Wushe Zhiyang
Wow! What a year 2016 has been. The big data industry has significant inertia moving into 2017. In order to give our valued readers a pulse on important new trends leading into next year, we here at insideBIGDATA heard from all our friends across the vendor ecosystem to get their insights, reflectio...
- Friday, 23 December 2016 14:45
- By Wushe Zhiyang
Retailers investing in new technologies during 2016 did so in many cases to keep up with the competition, often represented most specifically by Amazon — the company that influenced how many of them pursued e-commerce, and now is prompting them to consider innovations in the emerging area of conve...
- Friday, 23 December 2016 14:39
- By Rachel Bilson
Against 2016’s difficult backdrop of Brexit debates, political commotion and muted economic expansion, it would be easy to assume 2017 would be a slow start in terms of growth and innovation. But the outlook for technology promises to be anything but. As managing director of one of the...
- Friday, 23 December 2016 14:23
- By Nick Tridea
For eight years, Google always held its biggest event of the year, its I/O developer conference, in San Francisco. This year, however, it moved it out (and outdoors) to an amphitheater in Mountain View, right next to its campus. Looking back, that move now feels symbolic. In many ways, 2016 was...
- Friday, 23 December 2016 07:19
- By Paul L.
Leah H. Somerville, a Harvard neuroscientist, sometimes finds herself in front of an audience of judges. They come to hear her speak about how the brain develops. It’s a subject on which many legal questions depend. How old does someone have to be to be sentenced to death? When should someone get ...
- Friday, 23 December 2016 07:13
- By Olivia Russell
The proliferation on online censorships from dozens of countries around the world has prevented numbers to access limitless sources of information from the internet; countries such as China, Iran, North Korea, Egypt, and United Arab Emirates have successfully blocked a couple of websites in their ar...
- Friday, 23 December 2016 02:52
- By Daniel K. Henry
2016 was a rough year for those of us who love Apple’s desktops. For the past year (and in some cases much longer), Apple’s iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro have remained largely untouched. The Pro and mini especially have seen some serious neglect, with the current mini being over two years old...
- Thursday, 22 December 2016 13:47
- By Dana W. Jimenez
