Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: scientists discover a new organ in your body; eye tracking and VR; Hawking’s last paper Read more…
The safety record for self-driving cars is actually better than the Uber accident makes it look, but it’s risky for rival firms to state it could never happen to them. ITEM: We don’t yet know what Read more…
(Reuters) – Under Armour said on Thursday that data from some 150 million MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app accounts was compromised in February, in one of the biggest hacks in history, sending shares of the Read more…
2017 was not a good year for the VoLTE vendor business, according to Dell’Oro Group. The good news: the market is expected to experience double-digit growth in 2018. 2017 was a tough year for VoLTE Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – US short-term rental service Airbnb said it would start disclosing host information to Chinese government agencies starting on Friday, as the San Francisco-based company complies with regulations in China. China’s strict regulations on residency Read more…
There’s a new smart speaker in town called Volareo, and it has a specific mission – leverage blockchain technology to help music artists actually make money from music streaming for a change. Streaming music services Read more…
Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has launched a ‘Blockchain Challenge’ to accelerate the development and adoption of innovative new solutions using blockchain technologies beyond FinTech. Blockchain has the potential to accelerate Singapore’s transformation into Read more…
Telstra has activated what it says is the world’s first 5G-enabled Wi-Fi hotspots – the key word being ‘enabled’. They’re actually normal hotspots using 5G as the backhaul link – the question is whether users Read more…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon.com shares fell almost 5% on Wednesday, wiping more than $30 billion off its market value, after news website Axios reported that US President Donald Trump is obsessed with the world’s largest Read more…
The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal is a necessary wake-up call, but the issue is much bigger than Facebook, and the less visible aspects of data collection arguably present much greater risks. I was listening Read more…
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