Robot restaurants and sci-fi kitchens: How tech is changing the way we eat

Robot recipes, 3D printed meals, pocket scanners, touch-screen waiters -- new futuristic technologies are beginning to transform the way we prepare, distribute, and eat our food.

What Tesla’s new Gigafactory means for electric vehicles

Tesla‘s new Gigafactory opened at the end of July in Nevada, with much excitement from both the media and the general public. Only 14 percent of the massive structure has been built, with the rest of the $5 billion project to be concluded by 2020. According to Tesla, battery cell production will start in 2017; by 2018, the Gigafactory should be cranking out cars to the tune of 500,000 Model 3s per year. A big part of Tesla’s need to build the Gigafactory lies in the reduced expenses for lithium-ion battery production it provides.

Innovación en el sector financiero: La Revolución FinTech

Gracias a la tecnología digital, a la telefonía móvil y a las herramientas de la llamada economía colaborativa, existe una solución Fintech para cada parte de la cadena de valor de un banco, desde el front-office hasta el back-office y toda la infraestructura intermedia. Es por esto que el número de empresas Fintech y la variedad de servicios que ofrecen representan un serio riesgo de disrupción o desintermediación para las instituciones financieras que no se reinventen a tiempo.

The Amazon Go store is a crazy high tech shopping experience

Imagine scanning your phone when you walk into the grocery store, doing all your shopping, and then just walking out. No lines, no scanning your items, no bagging. That’s how the Amazon Go store works.

Amazon Dash Button! 

Amazon Dash is a consumer goods ordering service which uses a proprietary device for ordering goods over the Internet. 

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Internet of Things – Online guide to the Internet of Things (IoT)

What is the Internet of Things (IoT)? Where does ‘it’ come from, how is IoT used in practice, what are the key IoT benefits and challenges, and what can we expect in the future across several vertical markets and from various angles and IoT use cases? From the Consumer Internet of Things to the Industrial Internet of Things and the Internet of Everything.

$1.9 trillion dollars of economic value could be created by the use of IoT devices and asset tracking solutions

Using sensors, tags, and other IoT devices to track goods through the global supply chain is one of the fundamental use cases for the Internet of Things, and also one of the most impactful.

Cisco and DHL, the world’s largest logistics provider, estimated last year that $1.9 trillion dollars of economic value could be created by the use of IoT devices and asset tracking solutions in the global supply chain and logistics sector.

The top 10 tech stars in the north

From an app that boosts declining high streets, to a platform where anyone can create an online radio station, these startups have been tipped for big things.

he north’s digital economy is creating jobs at 10 times the rate of the region’s non-digital sectors, according to a recent report.

To celebrate and promote the emergence of this so-called digital powerhouse, Tech North on Thursday night held the grand final of its Northern Stars competition to uncover the region’s 10 brightest tech startups.

A High-Stakes Bet: Turning Google Assistant Into a ‘Star Trek’ Computer

Google is one of the most valuable companies in the world, but its future, like that of all tech giants, is clouded by a looming threat. The search company makes virtually all of its money from ads placed on the World Wide Web. But what happens to the cash machine if web search eventually becomes outmoded?

OPINIÓN: CÓMO INNOVAR EN TU EMPRESA UTILIZANDO 'DESIGN THINKING'

Al ser un gran generador de innovación se puede aplicar a cualquier campo, desde el desarrollo de productos o servicios hasta la mejora de procesos o la definición de modelos de negocio.

Por: ARSENY LEPIAVKA

Scary and fascinating: The future of big data

It's reasonable to see big data as a revolutionary development in IT and business in general -- but its implications should make us pause for thought.

ZDNet recently spoke to Bernard Marr, author of the book, Big Data: Using smart big data analytics and metrics to make better decisions and improve performance, to see what's next for the technology.

The Internet of Things Promises a Future of Being Coddled by Your Appliances

We interact with countless things each day that support us as we sleep, eat, work and play -- the bed we get out of in the morning, the shower head, your toothbrush, the car steering wheel, your watch and your lunchbox. Your stove, blender and refrigerator -- you get the picture. What if these objects, on which we rarely spare a second thought, had intelligence of their own?

El primer vuelo de Aquila, el dron de Facebook para llevar Internet desde los aires

Aquila, una de las partes más ambiciosas de Internet.org de Facebook, por fin ha hecho su primer vuelo largo y se prepara para llevar Internet por los aires a lugares que no tengan buenas infraestructuras.

Uno de los grandes objetivos de Facebook, para expandir sus números en zonas poco desarrolladas, es llevar Internet a todas partes. Para ello, están desarrollando la iniciativa Internet.org, con la que buscan que el 60% de la población mundial que aún no dispone de conexión a Internet pueda, de manera económica (incluso gratuita) y sencilla, conocer y aprovechar las ventajas de la red de redes. Una de las partes más ambiciosas del programa es Aquila, un dron con el que Facebook quiere llevar Internet a lugares recónditos durante 90 días.

These are the technological trends to follow in the coming months

Dusting off your crystal ball and scrutinizing the technological innovations that the year has in store is usually a healthy exercise and to help you to complete it, we are giving you 10 keys that must be considered to monitor trends in the coming months.

In the case of 2015, some old acquaintances that have never finished getting off the ground entirely return, such as wearables or the Internet of things, and others, such as smartphones and mobile environments will finally reach a more than necessary maturity.

Eric Ries quiere eliminar los informes cuatrimestrales para premiar la innovación

El padre de la metodología 'lean', propone una bolsa de valores "a largo plazo" que premie la innovación sostenida frente a los rendimientos económicos a corto plazo. La acogida de su plan ha sido desigual

Aquí va un plan audaz para cambiar la manera en la que operan las empresas: crear una nueva bolsa para valorar la innovación sostenida por encima de la búsqueda de beneficios a corto plazo.

Vision Board: What Is It and How Does It Work?

Many entrepreneurs use vision boards and swear by them! So what in the world is a vision board and how does it work?

A vision board is usually a large piece of cardboard that has visual cut outs of what you aspire to be, do or have when you are successful. It is based on the law of attraction…what you put out there is constantly working and will eventually deliver those thing to you. Visualizing what you want is considered to be an even stronger connection and why so many recommend creating them. This picture describes the how to’s pretty good.

Google predice el futuro: hay que apostar por la inteligencia artificial

En su primera carta a inversionistas, el presidente ejecutivo de Google, Sundar Pichai, dice que la próxima ola de la informática tendrá que ver con el aprendizaje de máquinas.

Es un hecho que lo más importante para Google -- la empresa/verbo/sitio web que es sinónimo de encontrar cosas que utilizan el Internet -- es su negocio de búsquedas. Y ahora que la empresa pone a punto su plan maestro para el futuro, Google quiere asegurarse de que el negocio sea inyectado con una buena dosis de inteligencia artificial (IA).

Al menos esa es la gran conclusión de la carta anual de Google, publicada el jueves, y escrita por primera vez por el presidente ejecutivo, Sundar Pichai, en lugar de por los co-fundadores de Google, Larry Page y Sergey Brin.

Autos conectados, el nuevo fichaje de Uber y la novedad de Shopify para comerciantes

Estas son algunas de las noticias más destacadas en el mundo digital y tecnológico hoy.

» Google, Uber y Ford se unen para impulsar los autos conectados

Las tres compañías trabajan en una coalición para promover el mercado de los coches autónomos y presionar al gobierno para actuar en esta materia; específicamente, poner orden en las leyes que los regulan, según información de Reuters que publica mediatelecom.

Big Data: Will We Soon No Longer Need Data Scientists?

The job of data scientist — the quintessential big data job, and the job that was just voted the best job in America for 2016 — is at risk.

Data scientists have been called “unicorns” because finding the right person with the right set of skills — including coding, statistics, machine learning, database management, visualization techniques, and industry-specific knowledge — could be practically impossible.  But machine learning and big data itself may be making those unicorns as obsolete as they are mythical.

New machine learning algorithms can autonomously analyze data and identify patterns, even interpret the data and produce reports and data visualizations.

The Power (and Risks) of Measurement in a Fitbit World

Scoreboards work better than ever in this wired world, but be careful.

Several months ago, a wellness expert strapped a Fitbit accelerometer to my wrist and told me she wanted me to walk 10,000 steps a day. I had no idea how many steps I usually walked, so I ignored the gizmo. A few weeks later, my smartphone buzzed with an unexpected email congratulating me on being only 2,318 steps shy of “my” goal.

Why Google and car companies are about to spend billions mapping American roads

Are fully functional self-driving cars right around the corner? After years of optimism, we're starting to see people wonder if they might be further away than people thought. And skeptics point to mapping as a key obstacle.

Writing at the Marginal Revolution blog, for example, economist Tyler Cowen argues that "mapping the territory, reliably, will remain the key problem. Until that is solved, driverless cars will be a form of mass transit — except without the mass — along predesignated routes."