3D printing is already turning into a classic lure at technology fairs. Manufacturers work hard to perfect and lower the price on these devices, which they then try to sell to the final consumer by appealing to their interests (such …

Tech giants have commited themselves to making 2015 the year of wearable technology. During the first few months of this year, they’ve been introducing a wide array of wearable devices, such as smartwatches and smartbands. Most of these innovative devices …

Can Machines Think? Alan Turing asked himself the same question over six decades ago in his famous article entitled “Computing machinery and intelligence” (1950). His answer was to come up with what is today known as the Turing test, although in his day he …

Deep learning is an emerging topic in artificial intelligence (AI). A subcategory of machine learning, deep learning deals with the use of neural networks to improve things like speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing. It’s quickly becoming one …

IoT’s Threats We can list the threats of IoT under three categories; Privacy, Security and Safety. Experts say the security threats of the Internet of Things are broad and potentially even crippling to systems. Since the IoT will have critical …

Gartner defines dark data as the information assets organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes (for example, analytics, business relationships and direct monetizing). Similar to dark matter in physics, dark …

Big data is large and complex unstructured data (images posted on Facebook, email, text messages, GPS signals from mobile phones, tweets, and other social media updates, etc.) that cannot be processed by traditional database tools. Big data has three dimensions: …

The origin of the concept of smart city goes back thirty years. It arose in response to what is today recognized as being one of the major challenges of the 21st century: sustainability. The members of the UN World Commission on …

“Data Lake” is a massive, easily accessible data repository for storing “big data”. Unlike traditional data warehouses, which are optimized for data analysis by storing only some attributes and dropping data below the level aggregation, a data lake is designed to …

The Internet of Things (IoT) as a concept is fascinating and exciting, but the key to gaining real business value from it, is effective communication between all elements of the architecture so you can deploy applications faster, process and analyze …