The smart home isn’t a totally foreign concept to consumers anymore, but there’s still a sizable gap between now and a time when homeowners expect their appliances, thermostats and recessed lighting to all communicate with each other in perfect IoT harmony. There’s no silver bullet to getting there,...
There’s so much talk about what the Internet of Things will be able to do once it really gets going, but comparatively little time is spent wondering about the damage driverless cars, autonomous drones and worker-less factories could do if left to their own misprogrammed devices....
In a culture that glorifies and relies so heavily upon the personal automobile, it shouldn’t be so surprising that gas prices are employed by pundits, alternatively, as scapegoats for low retail sales or as a bellwether for impending upturns. Just about every update on monthly retail...
When it comes to IoT, the possibilities seem endless, along with the security issues. In PYMNTS’ March Internet of Things Tracker, sponsored by Intel, we interview FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny about the FTC’s role when it comes to IoT, which they consider to be a...
Google reportedly has a secret project up its sleeve, and it may be awfully similar to the Amazon Echo. According to various media outlets, lingering “trust issues” between Google and Alphabet’s Nest division have prevented Nest from making progress on creating an Amazon Echo competitor,...
At first glance, the victory of Google’s AlphaGo AI over South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol looks like it belongs in the same category as IBM’s triumphs — first with Deep Blue over Garry Kasparov and later with Watson over Jeopardy! celebrity Ken Jennings. However, while...
When it comes to IoT, the possibilities seem endless, along with the security issues. In PYMNTS’ March Internet of Things Tracker, sponsored by Intel, we interview FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny about the FTC’s role when it comes to IoT, which they consider to be a...
Let’s go back for a minute to the year 1999. It was just about a decade years after Tim Berners-Lee gave people the ability to actually use the Internet via World Wide Web. 171 million of the 6 billion humans on the planet were using...
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s third law states that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Most people apply this to alien civilizations descending from the stars with otherworldly machines, but what if the nonstop race for smarter, faster and more connected technologies...
