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Edge AI is the next step to ambient computing
If you’re a smartphone user in North America, chances are good you’re being inundated with spam calls on a daily basis. Google, for one, believes that artificial intelligence will be a big part of the solution to this problem, which is why the search giant began...
Tough call: Why marketing 5G to consumers is a hard sell
“Cool!” my husband exclaimed after hooking up the combination router/modem unit we’d just bought. “Now we have 5G!” To which I thought, “Um…no.” As a tech journalist, I knew there was definitely no chance that consumer 5G service had arrived in North America. Yet here...
Five products from CES 2020 that you didn’t know you needed
If you happened to be at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, you’re likely on your couch nursing the inescapable “CES flu.” If not, thank goodness. With more than 4,500 companies exhibiting there this year, there’s so much to distill that it’s...
Podcast episode 15: What 2020 has in store for 5G
About FuturithmicIt is our mission to explore the implications of emerging technologies, seeking answers to next-level questions about how they will affect society, business, politics and the environment of tomorrow. We aim to inform and inspire through thoughtful...
Telcos may have more competition soon thanks to eSims
In spring 2019, Snapchat recorded its 200 millionth user. Despite its popularity, Snapchat has struggled to increase revenues for years, earning its reputation for being financially unpredictable. But what if Snap Inc. were able to diversify its source of revenue by...
Deciphering the different flavors of 5G
5G is well on its way to becoming a commercial reality. But migrating from 4G network technology to 5G isn’t a clear-cut process and operators have to look at many factors when making the decision to deploy 5G. Those factors include the depth of their spectrum...
2019 might be the last year in which reality is only physical
Bill Gates has famously said, “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” I’m always struck by this truth when the end of the year approaches and I look back at what has...
Here’s the most popular content of 2019
2019 was a big year. It brought us nationwide launches of 5G in South Korea and across 50 cities in China, the rise of TikTok as the most downloaded app in the Apple Store, a “raid” on Area 51, Kawhi Leonard’s buzzer-beater shot heard around the world and, of course,...
5G will usher in a new era of shopping for both consumers and retailers
The past decade has not been kind to brick-and-mortar retail. As customers shift to online purchasing and private equity firms strip legacy retailers of their assets, retail chains have gone through a challenging time. However, 5G will transform retail in the 2020s....