Big Tech Muscles in on the Workplace Experience Tech Market
June 14th, 2022#Podcast 11: How Do You Build An Engaging Workplace in the Metaverse?
April 25th, 2022
Playing to Win: Microsoft Joins Facebook in the Metaverse with $69bn Acquisition
Last month, technology giant Microsoft acquired gaming giant Activision Blizzard in a landmark $69 billion deal that represents both Microsoft’s biggest ever acquisition and the biggest deal in the history of the gaming industry. Activision is a major force in the gaming industry, maker of several hugely successful titles including Call of Duty, Overwatch, Warcraft, and Candy Crush, and […]
Buildings, Workplaces, & the Metaverse Future
Today Facebook officially rebranded as “Meta” underlining their clear intentions to become a leader in Metaverse development. The term “Metaverse” will no doubt trigger a new era of challenging explanations, potential applications, and endless hype within technological circles, just as we saw with the IoT, the cloud, the internet, or electricity. The term metaverse was […]
Facebook AI is Helping Robots Understand Buildings & Occupants
Robots can be designed to clean the floor, as long as everything they might encounter in the room has a programmed response. Suddenly introduce an open bottle of juice and the robot is likely to knock it over then smear juice all over the floor, completely unaware that it is making the situation worse. Robots […]
The Longer We Stay Away from the Office, The More We Change the Landscape of Work
A few months ago, and for the previous seven decades, the vast majority of employees around the world would travel to their workplace each work-day, share that space with colleagues, and then return home. Remote and flexible working trends were increasing, the freelance gig-economy was growing, but until a few months ago “going to work” […]
Digital Technologies Enabling a New Generation of “Anywhere Workers”
“There’s a new generation of workers who won’t be tied to any one place. They can’t be restricted by the confines of an office, or bound by the standard 9-5. The future of work is anywhere,” a recent report begins. Based on a recent survey by AND CO, a business software firm targetted at freelancers, […]
4G was a Small Step for Connectivity, 5G will be a Giant Leap for the Internet of Things
Two years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the Mobile World Congress to stress that connecting the rest of the world to the Internet was a higher priority than developing 5G, the next step in mobile data connectivity. It seems that no one really listened and here comes 5G! This year’s Mobile […]
Facing the Urgent Challenge of Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Recently, Stanford Researchers Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang trained a machine powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to detect sexual orientation of people to an accuracy of 81%, simply by scanning photos of faces. Kosinski and Wang only created the algorithm to highlight the potential and potential dangers of AI; however, in a world where the […]
Why Future Smart Technology MUST Avoid Cultivating Walled Gardens of Data!
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” That slightly glib phrase often regurgitated at tech conferences, is perhaps something worth contemplating on for a few minutes. It speaks of course mainly to social media companies, conceived by a generation of technologists who understood and harnessed the viral power of social networking […]