"Emerging Technologies" news, interviews, and features

News about Emerging Technologies

• How Google's Project Tango will change your life

  Tango-based phones and tablets start emerging this week; here's why Tango will turn your smartphone into a genius phone.

• Google making big changes to Glass program

  The company will stop selling the unit to the public on Jan. 19

• Google AI project apes memory, programs (sort of) like a human

  Neural Turing Machines attempt to emulate the brain's short-term memory

• NASA spacecraft en route to historic look at mysterious Pluto

  With 7 scientific instruments onboard, New Horizons will offer 'bonanza' of information

• Round smartwatches arrive, but users still waiting for Apple to join fray

  LG to unveil round-faced smartwatch at IFA, similar to shape of Moto 360; Apple expect to launch its debut device by year's end

• LG to sell first OLED 4K TV - for $US11,000

  The OLED sets will come with curved screens

Interviews about Emerging Technologies

• Q&A: 3D gun maker Cody Wilson defends freedom to print guns

  He's planning another gun-related announcement later this year

Features about Emerging Technologies

• Even rivals are waiting for Apple to get into wearables

  Market not worth spit much less the time and money unless <i>someone</i> transforms the category, argues analyst

• Smartwatches at work: Boon or bane for IT?

  After years of coping with BYOD headaches, IT shops may soon have to support smartwatches

• Google's move into home automation means even less privacy

  Plans by subsidiary Nest to share info with the search giant is the tip of the iceberg

• Clueless CIOs aside, open source is 'frightening and fantastic'

  Savvy enterprises tap open source as a legacy-refresh strategy

• Supply chain 2013: New tech tackles unprecedented risks

  As threats to the supply chain grow ever more sophisticated, companies tap an array of technologies to protect their assets and deliver the goods.

• Can we talk? Internet of Things vendors face a communications 'mess'

  There's a wireless battle brewing, with Bluetooth mesh just the latest contender