Technology
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Tech Talk: Amazon Prime Video joins Netflix, Youtube in Comcast’s X1 platform
Amazon Prime Video, which creates original content like the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and curates others like Mr. Robot, will soon join Netflix and YouTube in the X1 system. That means customers will be able to use the X1 voice remote to pull up content in any of those applications from its main home screen without switching…
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Tech Talk: Apple becomes 1st public U.S. company worth $1 trillion
On Thursday, Apple became worth more than $1 trillion when its shares briefly climbed to $207.05, two days after the company announced the latest in a series of remarkably profitable quarters. Apple’s ascent from the brink of bankruptcy to the world’s most valuable company has been a business tour de force, marked by rapid innovation, a…
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Tech Talk: Comcast recycles 130K pounds of cable from the Philly region
You may surprised to learn that Comcast NBCUniversal has a senior director of environmental health and safety-slash-head of sustainability for its Northeast Division. The position has to do with corporate social responsibility, or CSR — the outward-facing policies within a for-profit that demonstrate some commitment to social good, such as volunteerism, sustainability and philanthropy, writes Julie Zeglen at generocity.org.…
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Tech Talk: TrafficCast Design Challenge winners aim to ease the commute
Many imaginative audio features were proposed at last month’s Future of the Commute: TrafficCast Design Challenge. The goal of the event: to improve the commuter driving experience, which can be about as fun and convenient as a root canal. TrafficCast — a national leader in traffic data and technology that’s based in Wilmington, Del. — created the design…
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Tech Talk: Apple accessories at risk from Trump tariff threat
Apple’s fastest-growing division, which includes Apple Watch, AirPods earphones and HomePod speaker, is at risk of being caught up in US President Donald Trump’s latest proposals to slap a 10 per cent tariff on Chinese imports. Despite the tech group’s iPhones and Mac computers so far being exempt from US tariffs, the devices that make…
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Tech Talk: Digital license plates are on the way
The mundane vehicle license plate, along with the windshield wiper a virtually unchanged vestige from the dawn of the automobile, is in the midst of a 21st-century makeover. Several companies are applying digital technology to what has long been just a slab of metal, in hopes of making it cheaper to update your vehicle’s registration…
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Tech Talk: University of Pennsylvania to offer online computer science master’s program
The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science will offer its master of computer and information technology (MCIT) program online, making it the university’s first entirely online degree. The program is slated to start in January, writes Courtney Becker at philly.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The master’s program admits students with no computer science background, and the online…
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Tech Talk : What programming languages are hot in 2018?
Ahead of 2018, just as last year was dying off, software development bootcamp Coding Dojo crunched the data from Indeed.com’s dev jobs for its annual report on the most sought after programming languages. After poring over thousands of job postings, the results were in: Java, heavily used for application building in the financial services industry, was once again leading the…
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Tech Talk: SeventySix Capital, Conshohocken, backs Vegas Stats & Information Network
SeventySix Capital, the Conshohocken-based venture capital firm, Monday announced the latest company to get backing from its $10-million sports tech fund: Las Vegas-based Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN). The company, cofounded in 2017 by longtime CBS sportscaster Brent Musburger, offers 24/7 information and analysis from “key innovators in the Las Vegas gaming industry,”writes Roberto Torres at techical.ly. [uam_ad id=”54865″]…
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Tech Talk: Internet companies balance social responsibility with profits
Digital distraction has been blamed for a range of ills, from ruining dinner-table conversation and disrupting sleep patterns, to interfering with children’s education and contributing to an increase in anxiety and depression. Now Silicon Valley has taken what is widely recognized as the first step towards treating addiction: admitting that it has a problem, write Tim…
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Tech Talk: Facebook slow to address ‘real-world harm’ of misinformation
It’s been two years since a U.S. presidential campaign in which Facebook was a primary vector for misinformation and state-sponsored political interference — and the company still seems paralyzed over how to respond. Presented with straightforward queries about real-world harm caused by misinformation on their service, Facebook’s executives express their pain, ask for patience, proclaim…
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Tech Talk: Facebook starts to block content that incites violence
Facebook has responded to criticism that its service may have contributed to sectarian violence in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, with a new policy that involves removing more types of deliberately inflammatory content from its service. On Wednesday, Facebook said it had begun a new policy of blocking “certain forms of misinformation that…
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Tech Talk: Facebook takes an interest in robotics
Facebook announced several new hires of top academics in the field of artificial intelligence Tuesday, among them a roboticist known for her work at Disney making animated figures move in more human-like ways. The reason for the social media giant’s sudden interest in robotics is central to the problem of how AI systems work today,…
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Tech Talk: Walmart, Microsoft link up on cloud technology in battle against Amazon
Retail giant Walmart signed a deal to use Microsoft’s cloud and artificial intelligence technology on Tuesday, deepening a strategic partnership between two of Amazon’s major rivals. Walmart said the five-year agreement is designed to leverage the full range of Microsoft’s cloud solutions in order to make shopping quicker and easier for customers, writes Sam Meredith at CNBC.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The Bentonville…
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Tech Talk: ‘Data dump’ could aid fight against childhood cancer
To the tune of $550,000, the Bala-Cynwyd-based Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation has funded the release of genomic data on 270 cancer tumors. The data set spans 25 unique pediatric cancer types, writes Roberto Torres at technical.ly. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The data release is done in partnership with the National Cancer Institute–backed Pediatric Preclinical Testing Consortium (PPTC). The data…
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Tech Talk: Google activates Chrome’s newest line of defense
Google has switched on a defensive technology in Chrome that will make it much more difficult for Spectra-like attacks to steal information such as log-on credentials. Called “Site Isolation,” the new security technology has a decade-long history, but most recently it’s been cited as a shield to guard against threats posed by Spectre, the processor…
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Tech Talk: Cicso chief executive urges simplifying computer networks
At Cisco’s annual technology conference in Orlando, Florida, last month, Chief Executive Chuck Robbins declared that technical shifts were affecting how all companies used the internet, forcing Cisco to rewrite its product playbook. Robbins has been pushing for networking systems to get simpler and smarter, both to reduce operating costs and to head off security…
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Tech Talk: Machines can also do white collar jobs
Companies now routinely use artificial intelligence to decide which clothes to stock and what to recommend to customers. And fashion, which has long shed blue-collar jobs in the United States, is in turn a leading example of how artificial intelligence is affecting a range of white-collar work as well, writes Noam Scheiber at bizjournals.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″]…
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