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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The Easy Button for Deploying Reliable, Sustainable Edge Computing Solutions

Credit to Author: Carsten Baumann| Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:47:48 +0000

The Age of Autonomy has arrived. Smart systems enable an increasingly digitized world, from robots picking and packing items in warehouses to vehicles communicating with each other about traffic and road conditions to intelligent systems that feed weather data to airlines.  These systems depend on…

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Why Apple's iOS 16.6 upgrade will be talk of the town

Apple’s big developer event is approaching, and it looks as if the company will press home its message on privacy as it begins to seed support for the AR operating systems it’s now expected to announce there.

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As of now, the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) starting June 5 seems set to see Apple introduce its first mixed reality glasses, likely called RealityPro. These will be accompanied by an operating system that recent patent filings suggest will be called xrOS or xrProOS. The event will also see Apple introduce new iterations of its other operating systems, which developers will be able to work with soon after the show.

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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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China Unicom: Zero operational interruptions through 24/7 services support

Credit to Author: Roger Casellas| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:52:29 +0000

China has been at the forefront of many different industry technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), virtual reality (VR), and they are now advancing with… Read more »

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How 21st Century tools empower the water industry workforce

Credit to Author: John Boville| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:00:30 +0000

Other blogs in this series have talked about the potential of modern technologies to bring new levels of asset performance to the water industry. We’ve talked about how digitization gains… Read more »

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