The top 10 tech stories of 2023

The top technology stories of 2023 highlight fundamental changes in culture and geopolitics as well as tech itself: It’s clear that generative AI will affect all aspects of technology and society, while geopolitical tensions are sparking cybersecurity attacks globally. General unease about the dominance of big tech, meanwhile, is pushing regulators to get tougher on mopolistic business practices and multibillion-dollar mergers.

Fired! Rehired! Sam Altman’s ouster and return to OpenAI

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The ouster of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI, which sparked the modern era of generative AI when it launched ChatGPT a year earlier, was the tech industry shocker of the year. After the board issued a mysterious statement on November 17 saying that it had fired Altman for not being “consistently candid,” Microsoft announced that it would hire Altman and any other OpenAI employees who wanted to follow him out the door — which turned out to be almost all of them. OpenAI backed down and rehired Altman.

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As VR headset adoption grows, privacy issues could emerge

Head and hand motion data gathered from virtual reality (VR) headsets could be as effective at identifying individuals as fingerprints or face scans, research studies have shown, potentially compromising user privacy when interacting in immersive virtual environments.

Two recent studies by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, showed how data gathered by VR headsets could be used to identify individuals with a high level of accuracy, and potentially reveal a host of personal attributes, including height, weight, age, and even marital status, according to a Bloomberg report Thursday.

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Software-defined technologies: the next step in digital transformation?

Credit to Author: Peter Weckesser| Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:19:02 +0000

I’m a technology enthusiast who enjoys exploring new digital technologies and thinking about how they can be adopted at scale and speed. In our industry, the recent years have been super interesting for people like me.The urgent need for resiliency and flexibility has accelerated digital…

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How to keep people comfortable more sustainably

Credit to Author: Ali Haj Fraj| Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 19:00:00 +0000

Arguably one of the most significant inventions since industrialization was the development of the first practical heat pump in 1755, which would lay the foundations for the modern HVAC and refrigeration we now take for granted in the developed world. Like so many of the…

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How to make your plant assets work harder for you

Credit to Author: Ali Haj Fraj| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Over the last few years, the world has experienced unprecedented events which have also had unprecedented impacts on business. With so many factors out of our control, it’s even more important to be on top of the things that are. One of the best places…

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Key Technology Trends for 2020

Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:21:13 +0000

Craig Resnick covers the PLC, PAC, HMI, OIT and Industrial PC markets as well as the Packaging, Plastics and Rubber Industries for ARC.  He is the primary analyst for many… Read more »

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After half a century today’s automation systems are adding even more business value

Credit to Author: Sophie Borgne| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 19:42:20 +0000

How a modernization project increased a plant’s production efficiency by 20% The Modicon PLC was a game changer for control system technology. It was designed in 1968 to be a… Read more »

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A Digital World in Water Innovation on Display

Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:23:13 +0000

By Vincent Puisor, Schneider Electric Business Development Manager, Water & Wastewater – Americas Region Vincent is responsible for business development in the Water Segment, with a focus on building solutions… Read more »

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