Every organization within the financial industry will be fully aware of the existence of FinTech, many even struggling under the huge pressure that it proposes. Whilst many banks may be in denial about the potential effects of the new technology, ...
The Future of Customer Service Technology
Great customer service is not optional. If you don’t look after your customers, they will not stay loyal to your brand. It really is that simple. A 2013 American Express survey discovered that 53% of customers experienced similar feelings to ...
How AI Can Overcome Planet’s Challenges: 5 Ways How Artificial Intelligence May Help to Save the Planet
People are often quick to link artificial intelligence with the future of every industry including technology, medicine, and science. For most scientists, there is a common belief that the answer lies in data mining through the information we have already ...
How AI Will Help You With Your Term Paper Writing In Future
With artificial intelligence beginning to take shape, people and especially writers are begging to worry about their jobs. And many are asking whether it will be worse than outsourcing writing tasks which are supposed to be done by those employed ...
Artificial Skin That Senses and Stretches Like Human Skin
Everything seems to be getting smarter these days–We have smart phones, smart computers and now we have “smart skin.” Thanks to a group of researchers at Seol National University, prosthetics have gotten a whole lot smarter with smart skin. This ...
TFOT 2013 Round-Up: Year in Review
Although some tech enthusiasts considered 2013 to be a “blah” year for technology, we have found that it was a year that drastically improved existing technologies while laying the groundwork for even better ones to emerge in the future. While ...
Hosted VoIP PBX Service: An Excellent Choice for Business Communication
Virtual PBX systems establish a communication network without borders. Now voice calls and more can be made and received from anywhere at any time. Wherever there is an internet connection is where the network is. Business communication is no longer ...
Teaching Computers to Recognize Objects
Researchers of the European “Cognitive-Level Annotation using Latent Statistical Structure” (CLASS) project are developing technologies that could help computers to visually recognize specific objects, such as one’s glasses, and general classes of objects, such as a random car on the ...
IBM ‘Cat Brain’ Project
Scientists from IBM and five university partners will head a US government-funded collaboration to create electronic circuits that mimic brains. Their ultimate goal will be to understand the complex wiring system of the brain and to build a computer that ...
‘Boss’ Wins DARPA’s Urban Challenge
After several hours of highly eventful competition Carnegie Mellon University’s robotic car team won DARPA’s 2007 Urban Challenge. “Boss”, as it is known, was able to complete all three main missions and 19 submissions successfully scooping gold for Carnegie Mellon ...