An achievement vastly overlooked by people today is the proliferation of fiber optic technology worldwide. Capable of transmitting information across continents and oceans, these bundles of glass wires are the backbone of our digital world. So how do they work? Well, fiber optics is a method of transmission, not the object itself. Fiber optic cables […]
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are the big-time game-changers. From healthcare to the manufacturing industry or other verticals, they have managed to transform multiple sectors of the economy and are helping together to improve our daily lives in numerous ways. Many workplaces such as education, retail, healthcare, finance, and technology leverage AI to […]
Boarding pass, suitcase, passport and … digital vaccination certificate? Keen to avoid losing another summer of holiday revenue to the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union, some Asian governments and the airline industry are scrambling to develop so-called COVID-19 vaccine passports to help kickstart international travel. They’re working on systems that would allow travelers to use […]
Video games have become a benchmark for success for many broadband providers far and wide, as the gaming industry looks to continue its meteoric rise in popularity across all channels. According to Amsterdam-based games and esports data company Newzoo, during 2021, the market will generate revenues of $175.8 billion, a small year-on-year decline of -1.1 […]
Cryptocurrency has dominated worldwide headlines, taken over the minds of basically every tech enthusiast, FinTech genius, business, and global governments across the spectrum. Everyone is either buying it, investing in it, or mining it; through rise and fall, people are in full swing with crypto wallets popping up as far as the finger can scroll. […]
The world’s largest truck and bus maker is charting an ambitious zero-emission future and says it’s not that far off – despite higher costs and the current lack of support infrastructure. Daimler AG’s truck division says it plans to shift most of its vehicle development resources to zero-emission vehicles by 2025 and predicts that battery […]
Its common knowledge that whenever technological innovation occurs, it trickles down and morphs into other forms; while the creation of the telegraph occurred almost 200 years ago, the technology continued to shapeshift until it led to the inception of 5G. Subsequently the fifth generation of mobile networks has brought with it a plethora of new […]
Even by Bitcoin’s standards, Wednesday was pretty wild. The price of the famously volatile digital currency fell nearly 30% at one point after the China Banking Association warned member banks of the risks associated with digital currencies. The decline narrowed to below 10% in the afternoon, but Bitcoin had still lost about $70 billion in […]
Popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok announced earlier last week that it has joined the Technology Coalition, an organization that works to protect children from online sexual exploitation and abuse. The social media mammoth joins a setlist of Big Tech names enrolled in the organization such as Adobe, Amazon, Apple Inc., Discord, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, Facebook […]
Police Chief Will Cunningham came to work four years ago to find that his six-officer department was the victim of a crime. Hackers had taken advantage of a weak password to break in and encrypt the files of the department in Roxana, a small town in Illinois near St. Louis, and were demanding $6,000 of […]