India’s internet users expected to register double-digit growth to reach 627 million in 2019, driven by rapid internet growth in rural areas, market research agency Kantar IMRB Wednesday said. Internet usage in the country has exceeded half a billion people for the first time, pegged at 566 million, driven by rural internet growth and usage. […]
Algorithms with this capability have been developed as part of wide-ranging research into combating online fraud led by the University of Warwick and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The new algorithms have been designed specifically to understand what fake dating profiles look […]
Technology moves at breakneck speed, and we now have more power in our pockets than we had in our homes in the 1990s. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a fascinating concept of science fiction for decades, but many researchers think we’re finally getting close to making AI a reality. NPR notes that in the last […]
Personalized financial services AI expands the gamut of financial services by means of what are called as consumer financial services. Consumer financial services keep the consumers and their unique demands at the core of their highly optimized offerings. AI makes it possible to provide consumers with a personal financial concierge that automatically lets them decide […]
If we’re honest, there are so many questions that employees wish to ask their employers, managers or human resource (HR) professionals in person, but oftentimes, these questions are delayed by fear. While the benefits of chatbots for business operations are incredible, the HR benefits cannot be ignored. Using chatbots for an automated process HR chatbots […]
Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has picked up 12.7% stake in US-based tech firm Skytran that develops technology in the field of Personal Rapid Transit Systems. Founded in 2011, Skytran is backed by Innovation Endeavours, the venture capital firm started by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The investment […]
Tech giant Apple contended that the lack of judicial oversight could reduce customer trust and security, among other reservations over Australia’s draft decryption legislation Australia recently joined forces with the US, the UK, Canada and New Zealand (called the Five Eyes alliance) to propose mandatory backdoors in encrypted chat in a bid to strengthen national […]
No system or network is 100% secure. Attacks can happen to anyone, or any business, at any time. Find out how you can make security central to your business, and protect it against the likely threats that it will encounter. Threats to your business are going nowhere Billions of devices connect to the internet every […]
What is Amazon Go, where is it, & how does it work? Amazon has finally opened its Amazon Go store. Situated in Seattle, it gives you the option to buy your goods from Amazon in person rather than through Amazon.com. However, unlike other physical shops, it doesn’t have any registers. You simply walk in, pick […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just published another patent from Apple that revolves around an interactive 3D display system, or a hologram. Apple filed for the patent in Oct. 2012, and according to Apple Insider, it combines a number of “known display techniques” to create this version of a hologram. The idea is that […]