Artificial intelligence is a big deal at the moment, no pun intended. So far this year, venture capitalists have invested $7.6 billion in artificial intelligence tech, according to PitchBook Data. That is close to double the $4 billion they dropped on AI deals just two years ago. What face-melting, futuristic technologies can we expect from ...

From real-time online cartooning to hand-drawn PC games, it can be tough to tell where human artists and art end and where technology begins. These hybridized forms also prove that digital innovation and old-school techniques don’t have to be enemies. In fact, the human and tech worlds can enrich each other, according to Rob Prior (pictured), ...

Gaming is so addictive to some people, there are now clinics that detox sufferers just like alcoholics. Unfortunate for those individuals — but interesting to product designers. What company wouldn’t want a touch of that seductive juju to draw in consumers? “I’m seeing clients come to me — a game designer — in banking, call centers, [software as ...

The cloud-enabled world of flexible pricing lets customers man the wheel with on-demand information technology resources, like data storage. How does this compare to long-term licensing agreements? Let’s just say customers like the view from the driver’s seat. “This is a whole new world where what you pay for is flexibility,” said Noam Shendar (pictured), general manager of the hyperscale ...

Since Dell Technologies Inc. and EMC Corp. stacked their bulky portfolios together to officially become Dell EMC last year, the newly merged company has sold the notion that bigger is better. In its end-to-end marketing message, however, a strategy for rapidly growing “internet of things” edge devices was MIA — until recent announcements at the Best of ...

YouTube has given all kinds of folks a platform to unleash their voices on an unsuspecting public. Some users have managed to parlay their likes and subscribers into internet stardom. Twenty-four-year-old singer Rain Paris’ (pictured) uploads caught the eye of former Marvel Comics publisher and film producer Stan Lee, who’s now out to remake Paris into ...

A lot of busy mobile application developers prefer Apple’s iOS operating system, because they can build software in less time and with fewer lines of code than they can with rival Google’s Android OS. But with 86 percent of the world’s smartphones running Android, they’d better warm up to it or forget global usage. “When you want ...

Think a Fitbit fitness device is the cutting edge of wearable technology? Try a self-defending or cocktail-making dress on for size. “These new technologies on the body — they can really listen to us,” said Anouk Wipprecht (pictured), a Dutch FashionTech designer who fused her interests in fashion and robotics into a sui generis career creating high-tech ...

Don’t judge a man before walking a mile in his moccasins. Also, don’t design healthcare robotics technology before watching live surgeries and following patients in an intensive learning program. The Accessibility, Rehabilitation and Movement Science, or ARMS, traineeship program from Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University immerses engineering students in medical study to make them better product ...

The notion that consumer tech must require almost zero brain cells to use but enterprise information technology can afford to be mindbogglingly complex is changing. Customers are demanding easy, intuitive applications at home and at work, and developers are responding. “I don’t believe there is any consumer or enterprise; there’s just degrees of how much security, ...