Employee mistakes and system errors are a larger threat to data security than hackers or insiders
Employee mistakes were ranked as the highest risk in the 2019 Global Encryption Trends Study, though employee-owned devices on company networks deserve more security scrutiny. How companies can diversify their cybersecurity teams At RSA 2019, Elena Elkina of Women in Security and Privacy discussed how businesses can seek out female and minority candidates for cybersecurity…
US restaurant chain lets customers design their own meals
ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Uncategorized’, ‘article’, ‘article-industry-impression’, {nonInteraction: true}); Spotted: US-based Panera Bread lets customers at its restaurants design their own meals using simple technology. Information about ingredients is available digitally. This includes not just which ingredients are in a particular dish, but also the nutritional value of these ingredients and where they are sourced. Customers can then…
App encourages co-workers to “like” each other’s hard work
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6 things keeping IoT pros up at night
Implementation and security are the top concerns among professionals involved in the Internet of Things, according to a survey from the organizers of IoT World 2019. How IoT is powering business digital transformation As IoT continues to change how business is done, Dan Patterson and Z-Wave Alliance’s Mitchell Klein explain how to optimize your company’s…
Tech Explained: Autonomous Robots
ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Uncategorized’, ‘article’, ‘article-industry-impression’, {nonInteraction: true}); Autonomy is the ability to make independent decisions. Autonomous robots, like humans, can make their own decisions and act on them. One of the most common autonomous robots is the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot. Like other autonomous robots, the Roomba uses sensors to perceive its environment and takes appropriate…
Headset brings virtual reality much closer to reality
ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Uncategorized’, ‘article’, ‘article-industry-impression’, {nonInteraction: true}); Spotted: Helsinki-based virtual reality (VR) company, Varjo, has released a new virtual reality “bionic” headset. The headset’s resolution is 60 pixels per degree. This is more than 20 times higher than the display of any VR headset on the market, according to the company. The resolution of this device, unlike…
Greek startup tracks what people ignore on a webpage
ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Uncategorized’, ‘article’, ‘article-industry-impression’, {nonInteraction: true}); Spotted: Greek startup Loceye is offering a tool to track when, where and how long people focus on various parts of a webpage. Users upload a web design onto the Loceye platform. The digital content is stored in the cloud. Next, Loceye shares the content with real people recruited to…
Japanese company turns raw silk into a highly conductive wearable
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Robotic hand lets people feel and move objects from really far away
ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Uncategorized’, ‘article’, ‘article-industry-impression’, {nonInteraction: true}); Spotted: A robotic hand gives users the ability to feel and manipulate objects from as far away as another country. The technology is a combined effort from three companies with robotics from the Shadow Robot Company, fingertip sensors from SynTouch and haptic feedback gloves by HaptX. The sensors feel everything a finger…
Belgian startup helps companies manage messy trade compliance post Brexit
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