Emerging Tech

The NFL is putting tracking sensors inside its footballs for the first time

By Kurt Wagner Aug 29, 2016, 8:23a

The move is just a test — for now.

Will immersive virtual reality be too much for kids and their parents?

By Carolina Milanesi Aug 18, 2016, 1:30p

Spoiler: The bunny dies in one tested ending. And in VR, that triggered much stronger feelings than it would have done in a regular movie.

Virtual reality gets down to business (infographic)

By PwC Sep 6, 2016, 9:14a

There’s a lot more to virtual reality than just fun and games.

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Intel blew it on mobile. Now it's trying to avoid missing out on virtual reality.

By Ina Fried Aug 16, 2016, 2:10p

The chip giant hopes that VR, connected cars and other devices will play to its strengths.

Watson claims to predict cancer, but who trained it to ‘think?’

By Kuang Chen Aug 16, 2016, 8:00a

Watson cannot read handwriting. Machine learning’s true potential is tied to human inputs.

The head of Google’s Brain team is more worried about the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence than an AI apocalypse

By Johana Bhuiyan @JMBooyah Aug 13, 2016, 6:00p

Lack of diversity is more than a public relations issue, people.

Getty is using underwater robots and VR to make its Rio Olympics pictures stand out

By Ina Fried Aug 12, 2016, 3:01p

The stock image house now has to compete with every fan and athlete with a smartphone.

Why businesses are no longer talking SMAC

By PwC Sep 6, 2016, 9:11a

The tenets of SMAC suggested that any business not taking an integrated approach in conjunction with every initiative was somehow failing.

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Who is best positioned to build a smart home assistant?

By Jan Dawson Aug 12, 2016, 10:00a

Who’s it gonna be? Amazon? Apple? Google? IFTTT? Or some amalgam of smart home solution providers?

The digital identity dilemma

By Bob O'Donnell Aug 10, 2016, 10:00a

Virtual ID “cards” will dramatically change how quickly and easily we use web services, make online transactions and more, while dramatically decreasing the potential for fraud and identity theft.

Virtual reality will bring us closer to the human condition

By Hilmar Veigar Pétursson Aug 9, 2016, 8:00a

Here’s the potential power of VR — to create new realities where we can be what we choose to be, rather than what we are told to be or born to be.

Internet of Things strategies are going from general to specialized and vertical

By Bob O'Donnell Aug 3, 2016, 4:00p

Qualcomm, Intel and Dell are among the companies moving toward enabling vertical-specific IoT solutions.

The blockchain future is here. And it needs a few good names.

By Jeff Schulz Aug 3, 2016, 8:00a

Please, let's not have any more scary-sounding names like Enigma and BlockCypher.

Drones from Google’s Alphabet will take flight soon. But can they outmatch Amazon?

By Mark Bergen @mhbergen Aug 2, 2016, 6:58p

There’s a difference in focus: Package delivery versus managing low-altitude airspace.

Google's Alphabet is part of a $700 million effort to cure disease without meds

By Mark Bergen @mhbergen Aug 1, 2016, 9:15a

Verily and pharma giant GSK will pour the money into “bioelectronics.”

Self-driving cars, Fiber and Alphabet’s other non-Google moonshots lost $859 million this past quarter

By Mark Bergen and Noah Kulwin Jul 28, 2016, 4:05p

Both revenue and losses increased a bit.

What I saw at the SigGraph computer graphics fair

By Bob O'Donnell Jul 27, 2016, 3:30p

Held across the street from Disneyland, the trade show is the holy grail of computer graphics and, increasingly, for mobile graphics, virtual reality and augmented reality.

For only $30,000 you can build Facebook’s new camera to film 360-degree videos

By Kurt Wagner Jul 26, 2016, 1:20p

The blueprints are now available online.

Google wants to improve artificial intelligence to prevent robot screw-ups

By Mark Bergen @mhbergen Jul 26, 2016, 8:00a

Five ways your future robot might go awry.

Here comes 5G — but first, a reality check

By Mark Lowenstein Jul 25, 2016, 10:00a

With last week’s 5G-related announcements, the U.S. is again poised to be a leader in the development and deployment of next-generation wireless technology.

Google has found a business model for its most advanced artificial intelligence

By Mark Bergen @mhbergen Jul 19, 2016, 8:26p

DeepMind gets a job cutting the costs of data centers.

What is ARM and why is SoftBank spending $32 billion on it?

By Ina Fried Jul 18, 2016, 1:51p

The company doesn’t make any products on its own, but its designs are used in billions of chips.

Digital advertisers should take a page from Snapchat’s playbook

By Jeff Tidwell Jul 14, 2016, 8:00a

Ads can be a natural extension of the experience.

Camera maker Light joins a long list of hardware startups to leave customers waiting

By Ina Fried Jul 6, 2016, 2:00p

The modular L16, originally due this summer, now won’t get to customers until early 2017.

Are we about to enter a new ‘golden era’ in technology?

By Tim Bajarin Jun 30, 2016, 12:00p

Voice-based assistants and bots — plus enhanced sound and audio — will have a dramatic impact on the man-machine interface.

The rise of self-learning software

By Adit Singh Jun 29, 2016, 6:00a

I predict that in 10 years, every new enterprise application will be self-learning at its core.

Why virtual reality matters

By Jason Brush Jun 28, 2016, 7:00a

As a new medium, VR is in a peculiar predicament: Hailed as a multibillion-dollar industry, it’s also still in its creative infancy.

Quantum computing: To boldly go where Einstein feared to tread

By Charles H. Bennett Jun 21, 2016, 7:00a

To build a quantum computer — and to understand what it's good for — scientists will have to stretch their minds farther than Einstein could stretch his.

Can artificial intelligence wipe out cyber terror?

By Anup Ghosh Jun 14, 2016, 10:30a

AI will replace large teams of tier-1 SOC analysts who today stare at endless streams of threat alerts, says a former director of DARPA.

Cortana comes to Xbox One, but Microsoft needs a bigger Trojan horse for the home

By Carolina Milanesi Jun 10, 2016, 8:00a

She's in your Xbox, but she wants to be in your bedroom — and kitchen, and every other room in your house, too.

A Samsung executive says bendable phone screens are 'right around the corner'

By Ina Fried Jun 9, 2016, 12:55p

The key is bringing manufacturing costs down.

The evolution of cloud computing

By Bob O'Donnell Jun 9, 2016, 11:00a

Changes in server design will have a real-world impact on everyone who uses both traditional and new computing devices.

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