Safe Travels!
The TSA has been introducing technology that will expedite the security process. The new tech will help on two fronts: ID checking to make sure that you’re the same person who’s ticketed on the flight; and making screening your carry-ons more convenient.
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Edge Intelligence in the IoT Era
Basically, edge intelligence means that data is analyzed and solutions generated as close as possible to the point where the data itself is generated, rather than in the cloud.
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Security in the IoT Era
In this, our third post on EETimes series on trends around Embedded in the IoT Era, I’ll be summarizing some of the articles devoted to security.
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Connectivity and Low Power in the IoT Era
EETimes has been running articles that address some of the challenges that designers are grappling with when they’re creating IoT apps. Given that connectivity is the most fundamental attribute of the IoT, it’s not surprising that one of the key challenge arenas lies here.
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Embedded in the IoT Era
Since the start of the year, eetimes has been running a series of articles on the challenges that designers must consider when they’re creating embedded systems, which these days are ubiquitous.
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Three Strikes You’re Out
With the major league baseball season now underway, I was interested to read that all of baseball’s Triple-A teams – that’s the highest-level league before the majors – will be using an electronic strike zone.
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Superconductivity
Superconductivity has long been the Holy Grail of materials science...Unfortunately, superconductivity so far has only occurred at ultracold temperatures (or under extreme pressure), which means it has had limited application when it came to everyday usage. That may be about to change.
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AI isn’t quite human-like. Yet. But it’s getting closer
There’s been plenty of buzz in the last month or so about AI chatbots. And there’s no doubt about it, AI is making chatbots more human-like. Still, it looks like we still have a bit of time before the human race is completely replaced by machines.
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Technology Breakthroughs, 2023
The current issue (Jan-Feb) of the MIT Technology Review is focused on ten breakthrough technologies that they’re keeping an eye on for 2023. Overall, an interesting list. Here are the technologies that caught my attention.
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Supertalls!
After 9/11, and the destruction of the Twin Towers, the consensus among engineers and architects was that the Age of the Skyscraper had ended. It hadn’t. In fact, in the post-9/11 decades, buildings have gotten even taller.
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