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Tim Cook: Government Should Regulate Big Tech, Data

Apple CEO TIm Cook says now is the time for government to step in and pass legislation that regulates big tech's mining of customer data.

November 25, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The push against big tech companies from harvesting our data to improve the functionality of intelligent applications and services has gained an unlikely ally: big tech. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple  — one of those largest big tech firms — said government should protect technology users with federal legislation aimed at protecting your data. In […]

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Voice Assistants in the Workplace

Are Workplace Voice Assistants Taking Hold?

Microsoft and Salesforce have recently announced new voice assistant capabilities for the workplace. Does this technology work for your office?

November 20, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft has a new vision for Cortana, its personal productivity assistant, which include making it more useful as a voice assistant in the workplace, making reading emails and sharing changes to your calendar a bit quicker. Next month, the workplace virtual assistant will be able to email you a daily summary of all your meetings […]

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Report: U.S. is Behind China in AI Investing

U.S. report says the country is in danger of losing ground to China in the race for advancements in artificial intelligence technology.

November 13, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

I’ve read and heard so much about artificial intelligence since I’ve started writing for Tech Decisions that I figured the U.S. was leading the way. With the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft calling the U.S. home, I thought we were for sure leading the world in AI technologies. I was also sure that […]

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Curiosity Lab Partners with U.S.-Taiwan Business Group

Curiosity Lab has announced a new partnership with a U.S.-Taiwain business group to give Taiwanese companies acceess to smart tech incubator space.

November 13, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Curiosity Lab, a smart city and intelligent mobility laboratory near Atlanta, is partnering with the Taiwan-USA Industrial Cooperation Promotion Office to foster new smart technologies. Through the partnership, Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners, Georgia will provide opportunities for Taiwanese companies to establish operations in the city and leverage the lab’s infrastructure and service to test […]

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Researchers Have Figured Out How to Hack Smart Home Devices — With a Laser

Researchers figured out a way to hack smart home devices by manipulating voice-controlled assistants from hundreds of feet away.

November 8, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

As helpful as Siri, Alexa and Google Home are, cyber security experts have long warned that smart device are probably not keeping your privacy very secure. It turns out, smart home hacking doesn’t even require much technical skill. Researchers at the University of Michigan say they have found a way to take over a Google […]

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Smarsh Enterprise Archive

Smarsh Enterprise Archive Delivers Global Enterprises Unprecedented Flexibility and Scale

Smarsh Enterprise Archive brings cloud scale and multi-cloud deployability to the enterprise information archiving space.

November 8, 2019 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Smarsh says its Enterprise Archive brings cloud scale and multi-cloud deployability to the enterprise information archiving space. Smarsh says the cloud-native architecture of Enterprise Archive creates a secure and scalable platform across multiple cloud infrastructures (public and/or private). Organizations can choose to deploy archiving, supervision and e-discovery services on the infrastructures that align with their […]

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Artificial Intelligence Has an Emissions Problem

Advances in arificial intelligence is making our lives easier and more automated. It's also becoming a huge emitter of greenhouse gasses.

November 6, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Technology, artificial intelligence and automation are supposed to solve our biggest problems, not create new ones or exacerbate existing issues. Unbeknownst to many, big tech is actually putting a huge burden on the environment. In a study assessing the energy consumption required to train several common large AI models, Researchers at the University of Massachusetts […]

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