Settling p via Closed Loop Digital Wallets
Starbucks and others are providing app-based alternatives to Apple Pay, Android Pay.
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Who Decides the Future of Work?
The beginning of “a broad conversation” on whether technology should drive society, or should people make decisions about how technology supplements (or supplants) employment?
Harvested data could hold the key to solving some of society’s greatest problems.
As forecasters attempt to understand exactly what happened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the data itself may hold vital clues.
Creating Connection with Autonomous Facial Animation
Biologically based computational modeling promises virtual characters capable of face-to-face human interaction.
Interactive Visualization of 3D Scanned Mummies at Public Venues
A full-body virtual autopsy of an ancient Egyptian mummy showed visitors he was likely murdered.
Network Operators Beef Up Last Mile For Cord-Cutters
Consumers increasingly are bypassing traditional content providers to download content a la carte via broadband connection.
Making Sense of Exabytes of Data at Sc16
“Think about how you got here,” said Katharine Frase, head of strategy and business development for IBM’s Watson Education unit, at the SC16 conference in Salt Lake City last week.
The ‘smart City’ Is Increasingly Global
Municipalities all over the world are building greater intelligence into their infrastructures.
Online consumers use software to block ads; online advertisers can pay to be whitelisted by some ad-blocking software.
Apis Are Changing the Way We Pay
Application programming interfaces are being used increasingly to facilitate electronic payments.
Recommender Systems: Beyond Matrix Completion
The future success of these systems depends on more than a Netflix challenge.
Seeking the programmer vote, an AI delivering a slogan like "Make Coding Great Again" could easily be seen as a threat.
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize applications and redefine the digital economy.
Visualization to Understand Ecosystems
Mapping relationships between stakeholders in an ecosystem to increase understanding and make better-informed strategic decisions.
Will Visual Programming Crack the Code on Learning?
An emerging generation of visual coding platforms is introducing software development to young people and other beginners.
Database Decay and What To Do About It
In our opinion, database decay results from the multi-department organization of large implementations.
Wi-Fi Kiosks Replacing Payphones in Nyc
A move to provide free Internet services yields some unexpected consequences.
While 3D technologies that make headlines are not truly holographic, holographic techniques are furthering advances in important applications such as biomedical imaging.
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