Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: altering the genetic code of athletes; the next pandemic; fake clinical trials; porn and cryptocurrency; Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is looking to accelerate plans to develop its domestic semiconductor market amid a fierce trade stand-off with the United States and a US ban on sales to Chinese phone maker ZTE Read more…
Somewhat counter-intuitively, embracing disruption is likely to be the best strategy for established telcos as 5G draws nigh. The web is littered with stories of companies that have been disrupted, some even before they turned Read more…
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Alibaba is investing $320 million in Thailand as the e-commerce giant aims to tap Chinese consumers’ appetite for the Southeast nation’s agricultural goods and for its tourism market amid growing competition from Read more…
Smart home devices and systems promise to deliver a new world of detailed consumer data and insight – and telcos, retailers, advertisers, and a host of service providers are keen to leverage those insights, finds a Read more…
The benefits of big data analytics have been too good to resist for most Australian organizations, but now many are struggling with privacy implications and the ethical use of data, according to new research from Read more…
In a very short period of time, blockchain technology has gone from an obscure background technology that somehow enables that Bitcoin thing to a game-changing distributed-ledger technology with the power to disrupt online transactions in Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc users around the world would be protected by Read more…
NEC says it has been participating with NTT DoCoMo in field trials of remote medical examinations in Wakayama prefecture using 5G. NEC provided a base station system as part of comprehensive 5G demonstration experiments carried Read more…
MONTREAL/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The world’s airlines are backing the development of a United Nations-led global registry for drones, as a rise in near collisions by unmanned aircraft and commercial jets fuels safety concerns, an executive Read more…
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