A survey of banking customers across the world, carried out by technology consultancy Capgemini and finance association EFMA, shows how soaring customer expectations are leading respondents to consider non-traditional tech alternatives for their banking needs. The report was based on a survey of over 10,000 customers, across 20 countries, and 60 interviews with senior banking…
Workplace training has long been considered one of the key early areas where virtual reality can make a dent in the enterprise. Walmart already made some noise when it announced it would be bringing VR hardware into its training centers, now the company is planning to send Oculus Go headsets to each of its 5,000…
NEWSBYTE Chinese ecommerce and technology giant Alibaba has announced that it is to set up a dedicated chip subsidiary. It aims to launch its first self-developed AI inference chip, which could be used for autonomous driving, smart city applications, and logistics, in the second half of 2019, the company said yesterday. The new subsidiary will…
After five months in public beta, Google today announced that its Cloud Memorystore for Redis, its fully managed in-memory data store, is now generally available. The service, which is fully compatible with the Redis protocol, promises to offer sub-millisecond responses for applications that need to use in-memory caching. And because of its compatibility with Redis, developers…
The UK government’s Treasury Committee has called for greater regulation of cryptocurrencies, citing volatile prices, hacking vulnerabilities, minimal consumer protection, and money laundering risks from anonymity on crypto platforms. Its new report for the government also questions the very premise of cryptocurrencies’ function as a currency, favouring instead the definition ‘crypto-assets’. That assessment echoes Bank of England…
Ghostery is launching new versions of its browsers for iOS and Android. In fact, Director of Product Jeremy Tillman said this is the first big update to Ghostery’s mobile browsers in several years. It’s not that mobile wasn’t a priority for the team before this, but Tillman said, “In our previous company, we didn’t have…
Chris Middleton explains why the technology sector is in the firing line of the US-China trade war, while Apple customers may get a shock – on paper, at least. Internet of Business says Tensions rose last night as US president Donald Trump hit China with new tariffs on a $200 billion basket of goods, including…
Earlier this year we saw the headlines of how the users of popular voice assistants like Alexa and Siri and continue to face issues when their private data is compromised, or even sent to random people. In May it was reported that Amazon’s Alexa recorded a private conversation and sent it to a random contact.…
Like virtually every other major tech company, Microsoft is currently on a mission to bring machine learning to all of its applications. It’s no surprise then that it’s also bringing ‘AI’ to its highly profitable Dynamics 365 CRM products. A year ago, the company introduced its first Dynamics 365 AI solutions and today it’s expanding…
Facebook is getting ready to purposefully influence the U.S. mid-term elections after spending two years trying to safeguard against foreign interference. Instagram plans to run ads in Stories and feed powered by TurboVote that will target all US users over 18 and point them towards information on how to get properly registered and abide by…
