"emerging technology" news, interviews, and features

News about emerging technology

• How Microsoft's HoloLens mega-deal could boost enterprise adoption

  As many as 100,000 devices could be sold to the US Army, highlighting Microsoft efforts to target augmented reality at the enterprise level

• Microsoft to test blockchain-based self-sovereign ID system

  Microsoft plans to pilot a blockchain-based digital ID platform that would allow users to control access to sensitive online information via an encrypted data hub.

• Google buys eye-tracking VR firm Eyefluence

  The deal signals Google's growing interest in VR and AR

• Gartner’s 10 strategic predictions for 2017….and beyond

  Claiming a 78% accuracy rate based on prior years’ results, chief of research Daryl Plummer delivered Gartner’s 10 strategic predictions for the next 3-5 years ...

• Panasonic has a technology for transmitting data by human touch

  It could be used in future security systems, or as a way of exchanging contact information through a handshake

• HPE shows off a computer intended to emulate the human brain

  Researchers are working on a new type of chip that may act as an intelligent co-processor

Features about emerging technology

• Startup Humanyze's 'people analytics' wants to transform your workplace

  Tracking social activity at work could help companies manage and boost collaboration

• 5 ways to use virtual reality in the enterprise

  From connecting with customers, better showing off products and helping potential customers feel like they're trying out everything from a new car to a new ...

• HP turns to 3D printing to revive flagging fortunes

  After more than a year of speculation, HP has finally unveiled its 3D printer technology, touting an industrial machine that it claims is half as ...

• No, Google Glass isn't dead

  The accepted wisdom today among tech wags is that Google has given up on Glass. Oh, really?

• Airbnb, Uber and problems with the digital-sharing economy

  HomeAway's lawsuit against Airbnb and the Uber subprime auto loan controversy highlight an uncomfortable fact of the emerging digital-sharing economy: They're still just businesses.

• The ABCs of the Internet of Things

  If you didn't understand IoT before, you will after reading this