Las Vegas expands smart city project to manage traffic, control crowds, catch crooks

Las Vegas has extended its smart-city rollout with Japanese group NTT to cover high-definition optical and audio sensors at 14 locations across the city. The extension follows an initial trial, which provided information to city personnel to increase situational awareness and provide some minor traffic management data. The pilot has improved traffic congestion and wrong…

Plantronics Voyager 5200 Bluetooth Headset Review

The treble accuracy of this headset is okay. Most of the low treble range is fairly well-balanced and accurate, resulting in vocals that should be somewhat detailed, articulate, and present. While the mid-treble range is fairly underemphasized, making vocals sound slightly dull and lispy, this is better than if it were overemphasized, which would result…

How will the Fourth Industrial Revolution Impact Remote Work?

When we think about remote work, we usually imagine employees performing the same tasks they complete in the office at home. This means that anyone who works in a physical environment such as a warehouse, manufacturing facility, or retail store cannot work remotely. 

Facebook buys Giphy for $400 million

Facebook just announced that it’s acquiring the popular GIF-sharing platform, Giphy. Reportedly, the deal cost Facebook $400 million and its plan is to integrate the Giphy library in Instagram and other Facebook-owned services. The integration of Giphy, which is used for sharing but for making and editing GIFs, has started long ago as Facebook, Messenger,…

Tyson’s Chairman Said ‘The Food Supply Chain Is Breaking.’ Here’s Why He’s Wrong.

You’d have to have been living under a rock to have missed this week’s news that John Tyson, Chairman of the Board at meat processing giant Tyson Foods, declared in a letter published last Sunday as a full-page ad in The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that America’s “food supply chain is breaking.” But he’s wrong. The…