June 4, 2020 In the pre-pandemic world, we had the luxury of time: time to plan how and when the next technology would be integrated, decommissioned, and replaced. Since the emergence of COVID-19, the world has been forced to rethink, retool, and adapt to how we move forward. COVID-19 has impacted our lives in ways…
Click Here to Access the Podcast With security threats and breaches happening daily, it is obvious that further action is needed to safeguard our data, devices, and privacy from vulnerabilities. Therefore, understanding of the importance of encryption in cybersecurity practices is needed now more than ever. Brad Beutlich shares his knowledge and insights into how…
June 2, 2020 Kevin Prouty, Group Vice President, IDC Energy & Manufacturing Insights Through most of the latter half of the 20th century, the operations of companies across most industries have been driven by increasing efficiency and reducing waste. Whether through Lean, Six-Sigma, or any other type of continuous improvement philosophy, factories, banks, hospitals, stores,…
After months of extreme uncertainty, pause of economies and isolation in our homes, finally economies slowly restart their operations and transactions. However, this transition will not be smooth. There are many rules related to physical distance and hygiene as well as limitations which still force employers to ask their employees to work from home (for…
Waymo has said it will resume trials of self-driving vans in the Bay Area on June 18th. The company was forced to suspend its autonomous vehicle trials in mid-March following a “shelter-in-place” order issued in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “Back in March, we decided to suspend our driving operations in response to COVID-19 to…
Microsoft has been ranked the number one IoT platform provider ahead of Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to analysis from Counterpoint Research – as the largest cloud providers see success in extending their IoT capabilities to the edge. The report, put together using Counterpoint’s CORE rating – competitive rankings and evaluation – saw the Redmond…
Self-driving cars will soon be seen cruising around a 200-mile public route in the UK as the country prepares for larger deployments. The Midlands Future Mobility consortium is leading the project which will see the cars driving on roads around central Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry, and the University of Warwick. A variety of road types have…
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A whistleblower who revealed Apple contractors were listening in on Siri recordings has gone public following a lack of action against the company. Thomas le Bonniec, a former Apple contractor at the firm’s Cork office in Ireland, believes that the company should be held legally responsible for breaching users’ privacy. Le Bonniec was employed by…
A new study has found that Americans still distrust self-driving cars and believe they are “not ready for primetime”. The research comes from Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE), a coalition of self-driving car industry players and nonprofits which aim to boost the public’s sentiment towards autonomous vehicles. Cars provide us with freedom and we…
