Gartner’s Tech Trends for 2025
One thing that I really enjoy about the end of the year is all the forecasts for the next year that start popping up. So naturally I enjoyed reading Gartner’s 2025 Top Strategic Technology Trends.
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Trick or Treat Tech
Each year, Halloween yard decorations seem to keep getting more elaborate and more technology based – not to mention more expensive.
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Words to the wise
It was good to see a reminder from Chris Coleman, writing recently on embedded.com, that addresses “how customer support and engineering teams can work better together.”
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Smartphone app processors
First, a confession: I didn’t read the full report. It would have cost me nearly €7,000 (or nearly $8,000 US). But fortunately, Don Scansen apparently did, and wrote a good but too brief summary of APU – Smartphone SoC Floorplan Comparison 2024, the Yole Group’s study of smartphone application processors that was published in the […]
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Supershoes!
Although I’ve done some running over the years – some Spartan races, a 5K or two – I am by no means a serious runner. Still, I do have a lot of admiration for runners – especially distance runners – and read with great interest a fascinating article by Jonathan Rosen on the latest high […]
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Taking industrial control systems offline
There's some rethinking rethinking going on about whether to take the industrial control systems (ICS) that govern so many of our most important industries offline.
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AI-driven robots that can help folks live more independently? Bring it!
There are plenty of applications where AI can and should be used in the home. And one was chronicled last spring in MIT’s Technology Review.
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Making AI More Energy Efficient
most of us recognize that while AI is growing as a force, and will revolutionize entire industries, it does consume an awful lot of energy, leading to concerns about whether it is environmentally sustainable.
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Batteries coming to major home appliances? Maybe…
Appliance-by-battery-operation may be moving beyond the realm of small appliances and into the domain of heavy appliances like stoves, refrigerators, and washing machines.
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Celebrating the 4th of July
Fireworks have always been one of my favorite parts of 4th of July celebrations. There are few things that rival watching the skies light up on a warm summer’s night.
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