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Podcast episode 28: Accelerating Industry 4.0 with Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri
As COVID-19 turned a local epidemic into a pandemic, the spotlight was trained on an industry known as a “dumb pipe”. But the global telecommunications industry proved quite smart thanks to its evolution towards 5G. Nokia President & CEO Rajeev Suri says...
Empowering video surveillance and video analytics with a distributed cloud
Distributed cloud (and specifically edge cloud), has a measurable advantage over a monolithic centralized cloud — especially when it comes to use-cases involving high-volume traffic, tight latency requirements, heavy processing requirements, and location-specific...
Adoption of immersive technologies is speeding up, thanks to COVID-19
“This pandemic may prove to be the inflection point for humanity to reimagine the way we interact with each other,” Professor Shafi Ahmed tells me. These days, I suppose, we all look for silver linings wherever we can get them, and the widespread adoption of XR...
Five of the biggest challenges facing 5G
It’s expected that 5G, the much-discussed upcoming broadband cellular mobile communications standard, will have a big impact once the network rollout is here. The speed and bandwidth of 5G would be such that it could effectively replace home internet connections...
What pig farmers can teach us about stopping coronavirus with tech
Years before COVID-19 caused a global pandemic and hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide, there was another coronavirus that was even more virulent and killed over 1 million in the population it infected – pigs. Swine farmers in the U.S. were devastated by a...
Podcast episode 26: Razer’s head is in the cloud
Gaming giant Razer has its head in the cloud. While best known for its computer mice, keyboards, and headsets, the company’s relationship with Tencent reveals the future of gaming in the era of 5G: always available, and never laggy. Razer President and...
What innovations will emerge post-pandemic?
Technology has played a pivotal role in our ability to cope with the global coronavirus fallout. As COVID-19 sweeps through nations, quickly making established ways of working, studying, socializing, and conducting business impractical or even impossible, people...
Will this pandemic be the catalyst for a hands-free technology revolution?
Hands-free technology was popular long before the coronavirus pandemic. But now at a time when we don’t leave the house without covering our faces with masks, wearing rubber gloves, and wiping down every surface before touching it, voice technology is becoming more of...
The role of self-driving vehicles in transforming agriculture
In the near future, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI) will play a larger role in how your food is grown. Farming is as old as civilization itself, but with industrialization, modern agriculture grew in scale and sophistication to degrees never seen...