Tesla’s semi autonomous car doesn’t stop for stationary stuff
You’ve got to love the story of the Tesla in semi-autonomous mode driving into the back of a fire truck at 60 miles an hour. Obviously if someone had been hurt it would be a Read more…
You’ve got to love the story of the Tesla in semi-autonomous mode driving into the back of a fire truck at 60 miles an hour. Obviously if someone had been hurt it would be a Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: cloning monkeys; atom thick memory devices; automated stem cell production; 3D printing and air speed records. Read more…
For a few years now, the debate about how and where operators fit into the IoT value chain have been rumbling on. Perhaps not surprisingly the arguments have mirrored previous arguments about the role of Read more…
For a few years now, the success stories around digital transformation in telcos have been few and far between. Up until now, they are almost never driven by the CEO. In fact, innovation in areas Read more…
We hate to say we told you so. No, wait, we love to say we told you so. Since the EU actually, literally, finally got tough enough to scrap roaming charges in the EU, roaming Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: AI beats humans at reading comprehension (sort of); the latest on weird signals from space; antibiotics Read more…
CES 2018 has now been and gone. The show organizers said that there were around 20,000 new products launched, but our sweep of news feeds and sources failed to ignite any real feeling that breakthroughs Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: AI knows when yr lying and doubts itself; we could see a black hole soon; quantum Read more…
It is the beginning of the year which means, amongst other things, that the results of the annual Telecoms.com survey are published. There is comforting news – 76.8% of respondents (1,500 telecoms professionals, spread across operators, Read more…
About 20 years ago a student called Marc Andreessen arrived in Silicon Valley. After looking around a bit he concluded that he had arrived too late. It was the days of HTML. Mind you, his Read more…
We acknowledge that we tend towards cynicism. We blame industry hype (and our advancing years). Last year the hype around several technologies (AR, VR, 5G, you name it) reached new levels of absurdity. We even Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: NASA’s interstellar adventure; Elon Musk says he is sending his roadster into space; where VC money Read more…
We have been saying for some time that there is something fundamentally wrong with social media. For one thing (and even given the current success of advertising) platforms such as Facebook have a business model Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: an asteroid wearing sunscreen, a hyperloop speed record, digital puppies for senoirs, and Alan Turing’s computerized Read more…
It seems that service providers are definitely going digital, but slowly. While 80% of them are undergoing a company-wide digital transformation of some kind, 82% conduct less than half of their transactions digitally. A third Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: we are not immortal after all, but we can buy a printed suicide pod, edit our Read more…
When you see a report based on a survey that suggests that 18-24 year olds are more confident that they know what Bitcoin is than a tracker mortgage, you tend to get a couple of Read more…
AI has been chosen as one of our overhyped technologies of the year. It is, many believe, caught between the rock of very fast look-up and the hard place of being fully conscious. The first type Read more…
It is not often that vendors promote disruption, except in a PowerPoint ‘we’re on it’ kind of way. It is also not often that you see papers from vendors saying that the vendor/operator relationship is Read more…
You will probably be aware of our views on Gartner’s yearly Integrated Revenue and Customer Management (IRCM) Magic Quadrant and how much actual influence it has on purchasing decisions (and therefore how badly you need to be in Read more…
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