Each year the globally successful management consulting company, Accenture, releases a prediction report for the upcoming trends in technology and business. This year, the Accenture Technology Vision 2017’s theme was “Technology for People: The Era of the Intelligent Enterprise,” a Read More
It’s a classic homeowner’s anxiety—did I leave the oven on? Did I lock the front door on my way out? So classic, in fact, that it’s been a plot point in countless sitcoms, movies, and books. It’s easy to imagine Read More
It seems like it’s every month that a new technology takes the world by storm. Just ten years ago, it would have been inconceivable that virtually everybody would be walking around with a tiny computer in their pocket. From transit to entertainment Read More
Few things are more infuriating than having to deal with a malfunctioning piece of technology. That said, few things are funnier than watching someone else deal with a malfunctioning piece of technology! Writers of movies and TV shows have always known the Read More
Remember the Steven Spielberg film A.I., about the adorable child robot with feelings? Back then, artificial intelligence, or AI for short, was an obscure term used only by sci-fi enthusiasts and computer programmers. Nowadays, it affects all our lives, and Read More
AI is changing everything from how we write emails to chat to how we shop. Pinterest has implemented a new AI function that lets users conduct visual searches and marks items they can buy, then links out to websites to Read More
Is technology creating or destroying jobs? It’s a question that’s been asked since the Industrial Revolution, and one that’s gained more credence as the pace of technology has disrupted — or threatens to disrupt — an increasingly larger swath of Read More