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AI might take jobs over in the next 50 years

yoSoyTono

The breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will bring massive social consequences, transforming the modern life by reshaping several industries —transportation, health, science, or finance. The transition is rising new challenges (from rebuild...
- 17 Apr 2018
Are tech companies slowing down the AI advantage?

yoSoyTono

Over the past years, few leading tech companies have acquired most of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) startups in Silicon Valley, consolidating some of the best AI teams in the world but slowing down the AI advantage in other industries of harvestin...
- 10 Apr 2018
Designing Secure IoT Devices Starts with a Secure Boot

kjachim

As an end user of many connect electronic devices, I often find myself questioning just how secure are these devices and the communication between them. Luckily, I know that there are many smart engineers out there ready to tackle that problem,...
- 6 Apr 2018
Smart Roads will provide quicker, safer and more efficient trips

yoSoyTono

One of the ways how Smart Cities will help urban areas to sustain growth and improve efficiency is by reducing the number of vehicles moving around the city, seeking the Smart Transit concept: highly-efficient autonomous transit systems, merging the ...
- 15 Mar 2018
Arduino Create Brings Arduino Sketches, Cloud, IoT to Raspberry Pi and other SBCs and Linux Devices

Catwell

Arduino Create interface (via Arduino) Arduino Create now integrates Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone and other Linux based SBCs ─ all with IoT in mind. Arduino’s goal is to make developing IoT (Internet of Things) devices quicker and easier than ever b...
- 13 Mar 2018
Smart Cities help to sustain growth and improve efficiency

yoSoyTono

Smart Cities are urban areas using information management technologies (like Big Data) and electronic gadgets (like sensors) together with the Internet of Things (IoT) to collect and supply data from city infrastructure. This raw data is aggregate it...
- 8 Mar 2018
A new QueSSence intelligent IoT platform.

siddharththakur

The emergence of Machine Learning (ML) or Artificial Intelligence (AI) has got everyone talking. A lot is being discussed and written in the newspapers about the potential of the technology in every aspect of human life and how it will change t...
- 6 Mar 2018
MangOH Red and the Legato Framework with Multiple Components

kas.lewis

In a previous blog post we took a brief look at the MangOH Red and what makes this new board standout. We then started to explore the Legato framework that runs on the Magoh boards (and the Raspberry Pi, instructions here). We started off...
- 5 Feb 2018
AI is becoming critical for accelerating business growth

yoSoyTono

Countries are adapting their workforces, economies and business models, population and society, and even culture to be ready for the new jobs Artificial Intelligence (AI) will help to create —and not stealing them!. Companies across all industries ar...
- 29 Jan 2018
Meet Corti, the AI helping emergency dispatchers

Catwell

Corti is an AI system that can analyze background noises and diagnose whether someone is suffering cardiac arrest over the phone. Emergency dispatchers could soon get some assistance thanks to AI (Photo via Washington Post) It’s not easy being a...
- 18 Jan 2018
Kids' Smartphone Addiction: Who is responsible?

Catwell

The technology giant Apple is under fire after a couple of its investors requested the company to offer more tools to fight smartphone addiction in children. But is it really Apple responsibility to fix the problem? The world has always seen pe...
- 12 Jan 2018
BEAM Smart Wearable Button Lets You Broadcast Custom Messages, Logos and Gifs

Catwell

BEAM allows you to display photos, messages, logos and Gifs on an AMOLED button you can wear. (Image credit: BEAM Authentic) Chances are, you’ve probably worn a button to display your affinity for a cause, your favorite bands or even just a smi...
- 5 Jan 2018
AI will create jobs, not stealing them

yoSoyTono

As mentioned before, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is essentially transforming our reality; becoming more and more sophisticated in a short time, tasks that once exclusively were for humans are opening up to machines and robots, as they are learning t...
- 26 Dec 2017
Casual Friday: Stephen Hawking says Artificial Intelligence could be our undoing

Catwell

Stephen Hawking believes that while AI can do some good, it can do a lot of harm and we need to be prepared for the risks involved. Stephen Hawking’s outlook on the future of AI isn’t so optimistic (Photo via Hawking.org.uk) Casual, but maybe a ...
- 10 Nov 2017
Rethinking technology: HoloLens gets a cert; Amazon takes advantage of AR

Catwell

Amazon now has an ARview feature on its shopping app, and Microsoft’s HoloLens are now certified as safety goggles. Preview items in your home with Amazon ARview. (Photo from Amazon) People are always finding new ways to use technology, like usi...
- 7 Nov 2017
Open IoT Challenge 4.0: submit before Nov. 13!

kartben

Hello element14 friends :-)There are only a couple weeks left (deadline is Nov. 13) for entering the fourth edition of our Open IoT Challenge!The Open IoT Challenge encourages IoT enthusiasts and developers to build innovative solutions for the Inter...
- 7 Nov 2017
Cloud Based People Counter

madhugovindarajan

Have you ever wanted to keep track of how many people pass by a location? Have you ever wanted to see what computer vision can do for you or maybe wanted to get involved with IOT? Well, this may be the project for you!This project uses a USB webcam a...
- 2 Nov 2017
Fixing IoT’s security and privacy issues

Catwell

Mobile chipmaker ARM introduces a new security framework to increase IoT security, while congress reforms a bill that allows intelligence agents to spy on citizens. Will ARM and congress get us any closer to improving IoT security and privacy? (Photo...
- 27 Oct 2017
MangOH Red Launch and Legato Framework

kas.lewis

Sierra Wireless has just launched their newest offering in the IoT space. The MangOH Red is a smaller and more compact board than it's older brother the MangOH Green. Aimed at a being used in an end product rather than the development, the boa...
- 4 Oct 2017
Daimler to publicly test autonomous semi-trucks in Oregon and Nevada

Catwell

German automotive company Daimler got permission to publicly test self-driving trucks on Oregon and Nevada highways. These autonomous trucks are coming to a highway near you. (Photo from Daimler) It takes a lot of patience, endurance, and skill ...
- 1 Oct 2017
Spire Studio brings sounds tools and recording right into the palm of your hand

Catwell

iZotope’s Spire Studio is a compact device featuring different recording tools to easily create quality demos. Avoid recording demos in a studio with this compact device. (Photo from iZotope) I don’t always write about complete products, especia...
- 14 Sep 2017
Fundamentally, Neural Networks allows machines to learn

yoSoyTono

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) consists of connections made from thousands interconnected artificial neurons sequentially stacked in layers. The layered ANN is one of the key features to have Machine Learning (ML): the labeled data used to feed the ...
- 3 Aug 2017
Why Machine Learning is impacting several industries?

yoSoyTono

Machine Learning (ML) is the science of how computers can improve their perception, cognition, and action with experience; in other words, ML teaches computers to learn from experience by using adaptive algorithms combined with computational methods ...
- 21 Jul 2017
Michigan Urban Farming Smart Irrigation Controller with ThingSpeak

rudraxx

How to build a smart controller for drip irrigation and automatic plant watering.There are few areas of the globe that don’t have to be concerned with water shortages, few agricultural centres, large, or small, that don’t need to concern themselves w...
- 11 Jul 2017
Artificial Intelligence is essentially transforming our reality

yoSoyTono

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science and engineering of imitating cognitive functions to create intelligent machines —by using smart computer programs, that react and carry out tasks normally done by people. AI simulates the capacity for abstr...
- 7 Jul 2017