2020 technology industry outlook

Edge computing is accelerating growth in technology Cloud computing and artificial intelligence will once again dominate the technology headlines, but 2020 could be a breakout year for edge computing. Deloitte’s global technology, media, and telecommunications industry leader, Paul Sallomi, shares his perspectives on the advantages of processing data locally and how partnerships will play a … Read more

Humans, not technology, are getting us through this pandemic

Technology’s failure to come up with a quick solution to Covid-19 reveals how organisations all over the world are nowhere near as digitally advanced as they thought they were.  Not a single person alive was prepared for what 2020 has brought. Yet, while we may not have been able to predict coronavirus, we live in … Read more

‘The Ten Equations that Rule the World’ by David Sumpter

Understanding the mathematics that govern our daily lives, and how you can use it to your advantage.  There’s something irresistible in the idea that everything that seems vague, random and unpredictable in our lives can be explained with mathematics. That there’s an equation tucked away in some seldom-visited corner of academia able to provide answers … Read more

Apple sues recycling company, alleges theft of 100,000 devices

Apple is taking legal action against Geep Canada, which it contracted to recycle its used devices. Apple alleges that Geep stole and resold more than 100,000 of these devices. Quantum Lifecycle Partners subsidiary Geep received more than 500,000 Apple devices (iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches) between January 2015 and December 2017 and was paid by … Read more

How it works: 3D touchscreens

Heavily inspired by graffiti spray art, a team of researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a special spray coat that allows the creation of interactive displays on 3D objects. Eclipsing the appeal of traditional square and rectangular casings, the new technology, called ProtoSpray, makes it possible to ‘spray’ touch-sensitive screens onto objects as … Read more

Artificial Intelligence and related fields

Logical AI-  What a program knows about the world in general the facts of the specific situation in which it must act, and its goals are all represented by sentences of some mathematical logical language. The program decides what to do by inferring that certain actions are appropriate for achieving its goals.  Search – AI programs … Read more

How a $1 million plot to hack Tesla failed

 A Tesla employee was offered a $1 million bribe in early August to install ransomware on the car company’s networks in Nevada, a scheme that could have netted a cybercrime gang many more millions in extortion, according to a newly unsealed US Justice Department indictment (pdf). Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a 27-year-old Russian, came to the United States … Read more

What will happen when the raw materials run out?

The reserves of some rare earth minerals used in electronics, medical equipment and renewable energy could run out in less than 100 years. Rare earth minerals are naturally occurring resources, which cannot be recreated or replaced. Some are present in only very small quantities in the Earth’s crust. They were created when the extreme heat … Read more

Samsung and SK Hynix to halt chip sales to Huawei

The two South Korean electronics companies have been forced to halt their sale of semiconductors to Shenzhen-based Huawei as the latest US restrictions come into force. Amid the US-China trade war, US President Donald Trump has focused much of his energy on attacking Chinese technology companies such as Huawei, Tencent and ByteDance, primarily through the signing of … Read more

Harmony OS will come to Huawei phones in 2021

As Huawei’s relationship with the US government has deteriorated, the White House has taken action to cut the company off from American partners like Google, forcing it to launch its Mate 30 range using the open-source version of Android and without Google apps like Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube. This year, the White House restricted Huawei’s access to … Read more