Emerging Tech

As painful as it is, if we want change, we need to take that first step. But when it happens, we’re never happy.

But as the tech develops, self-driving cars may make more economic sense.

Want to sound smart? Call it Echo Spatial Perception.


Dual cameras could pave the way for a move into virtual reality.

A unique advantage.

The move is just a test — for now.

Spoiler: The bunny dies in one tested ending. And in VR, that triggered much stronger feelings than it would have done in a regular movie.


The chip giant hopes that VR, connected cars and other devices will play to its strengths.


Watson cannot read handwriting. Machine learning’s true potential is tied to human inputs.

Lack of diversity is more than a public relations issue, people.


The stock image house now has to compete with every fan and athlete with a smartphone.

Who’s it gonna be? Amazon? Apple? Google? IFTTT? Or some amalgam of smart home solution providers?


Virtual ID “cards” will dramatically change how quickly and easily we use web services, make online transactions and more, while dramatically decreasing the potential for fraud and identity theft.


Qualcomm, Intel and Dell are among the companies moving toward enabling vertical-specific IoT solutions.


Please, let’s not have any more scary-sounding names like Enigma and BlockCypher.

There’s a difference in focus: Package delivery versus managing low-altitude airspace.

Verily and pharma giant GSK will pour the money into “bioelectronics.”

Both revenue and losses increased a bit.


Held across the street from Disneyland, the trade show is the holy grail of computer graphics and, increasingly, for mobile graphics, virtual reality and augmented reality.

The blueprints are now available online.

Five ways your future robot might go awry.


With last week’s 5G-related announcements, the U.S. is again poised to be a leader in the development and deployment of next-generation wireless technology.

DeepMind gets a job cutting the costs of data centers.

The company doesn’t make any products on its own, but its designs are used in billions of chips.

Ads can be a natural extension of the experience.

The modular L16, originally due this summer, now won’t get to customers until early 2017.
Voice-based assistants and bots — plus enhanced sound and audio — will have a dramatic impact on the man-machine interface.


I predict that in 10 years, every new enterprise application will be self-learning at its core.


As a new medium, VR is in a peculiar predicament: Hailed as a multibillion-dollar industry, it’s also still in its creative infancy.


To build a quantum computer — and to understand what it’s good for — scientists will have to stretch their minds farther than Einstein could stretch his.


AI will replace large teams of tier-1 SOC analysts who today stare at endless streams of threat alerts, says a former director of DARPA.


She’s in your Xbox, but she wants to be in your bedroom — and kitchen, and every other room in your house, too.

The key is bringing manufacturing costs down.


Changes in server design will have a real-world impact on everyone who uses both traditional and new computing devices.

The pair will jointly go after business in the aerospace, energy and automotive industries.


A quantitative study of Amazon’s Echo, Apple’s Siri and Google’s OK Google shows where — and how — they’re being used by consumers.

The storied photo service plans to equip every one of its Olympics photographers with a 360-degree camera.


Now mainly for messaging, Slack will soon be smart enough to talk back.


Windows’ Holographic and Google’s Daydream represent early attempts to establish their platforms as key places for developers and content producers to create new AR/VR apps and media.
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep simulation — or, as IBM’s CEO insisted, cognitive computing — were front and center for nearly every Code Conference speaker.