It’s always a challenge not just to insinuate a proposed audio visual product’s ROI, but to actually prove it in a technology pitch. Thankfully, nobody knows more about A/V products and their return on investment better than the professionals who handle them every day. And many of them just saw countless good examples in-person. Something our colleagues over at Commercial Integrator – the trade […]
Over half of small businesses in the U.S. said they’ve experienced some kind of cyberattack within the past 12 months, says a Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report. Yet many lack a way to alert, diagnose, and solve these security concerns in a holistic way — and for a reasonable price. Recent funding gained by Defendify, a SaaS-delivered […]
IBM says in a study that the cost of lost business after a breach for US organizations is $4.2 million. It is evident, then, that the organizations involved in the 5 biggest data breaches in 2019 thus far will likely suffer a considerable economic blow. But if you read this data breaches list thinking, “these are mega-companies; the risk of a data […]
You may or may not realize that this is one of the busiest weeks in the United States for people who install A/V & security systems: InfoComm, the A/V industry’s largest North American trade show, is showing off new products left and right. One well-known manufacturer, BrightSign, is showing off something to make maintaining digital […]
IP security wasn’t always revered — in fact, it was a topic of suspect by many A/V professionals only a short few years ago. But with advances in encryption and other cybersecurity measures, things like IP-based monitoring systems started cropping up all over the place. But Swedish-founded company Axis Communications says it was the first to […]
What if computers could perform simple logic with half the transistors, switch between different operations using light, and store the output of the operation in the device itself? A new paper by researchers in Shanghai aims to answer that with molybdenum disulfide transistors, says this report from Ars Technica. “With the development of carbon nanotubes and graphene, […]
LynTec, manufacturer of lighting controls & commercial IoT, says its RPCR web-enabled relay panels were used to provide an enterprise customer with a PoE lighting control system for big energy cost savings for a client. “Commercial buildings are facing increasingly complex local code requirements,” said Andrew Gjertsen, Platformatics Product Manager. Platformatics worked with LynTec on […]
Google AI recently announced Translatotron, an experimental new direct speech-to-speech translation tool that Google says is capable of “faster inference speed, naturally avoiding compounding errors between recognition and translation… [and retaining] the voice of the original speaker after translation…” Google AI Translatotron “is based on a sequence-to-sequence network which takes source spectrograms as input and generates […]
Ask us an IT tech question. We know you have one. No, this isn’t the type of question one can easily answer with a Google search (but, hey, we all have those sometimes, so we can’t hold it against you). Though if it were as simple as that, you wouldn’t need us, would you? We’re […]
According to Business Insider, two startups received a hefty $10 million from Elon Musk recently after they earned recognition for creating child learning technology which allows children to teach themselves. Kitkit School and onebillion, two child learning startups, will split the money after winning XPrize’s competition for Global Learning — which Musk sponsors. What is the […]
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