Data reported by The Guardian reveals that the there has been a dramatic decline in internet access growth around the world. As a result of the slowdown, billions of people in poor and isolated parts of the world are set to remain disconnected from the digital revolution for a long time to come. That means that as…
India Becomes a Launchpad for the World
India is shaping up to become a bigger player in the modern race for space – which is all about satellites and their various uses. In the past ten years, an increasing number of foreign satellites have been propelled from Indian rocket launch sites. September 16 saw the latest launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre…
Japan’s Drone Sector Ready For Takeoff
In March of this year, the first drone delivery to a private home was successfully carried out in Japan, possibly marking the beginning of a new era for the delivery sector. With a shrinking pool of workers, delivery businesses have been overburdened and have sometimes struggled to meet consumers’ growing demands. Even though the technology is still in…
Autocomplete: Jobs Under Threat From Automation
Most companies are constantly striving for more efficient, lean, working processes. Increasingly, the battle to save time and resources is being fought with machines and automation. According to a new report by McKinsey Global Institute, by 2030, automation could take away 15 percent of all global work hours from human beings, leaving around 400 million workers displaced. Of…
Rise Of The Industrial Robots
According to the International Federation of Robotics, the number of industrial robots being supplied by 2020 will be around 521,000, marking an increase on 2016 of 71 percent. Of those supplied in 2016, the five countries that making the most robots accounted for 74 percent of the 294,000 total. Well ahead at least in terms of numbers was China,…
How Many Jobs Could Fall Victim To Automatization?
Predicting the future is a precarious task, with or without a crystal ball. However, this shouldn’t stop people from preparing for what there is to come by all available means. Automation is here to stay and most experts predict that a big chunk of human work will soon be done by robots, because the economic…
U.S. Metro Areas With Highest Robot Density
Automation is one of the developments that has many employees in manufacturing worried. Some experts cite large negative effects of robots on employment and wages. However, robot penetration in the United States is uneven. With nine robots per a thousand workers Toledo in Ohio has the highest density of robots, according to research published by Brookings. If you look at…
The Effects Of Automation At Work
According to a new survey by KRC Research, business leaders and employees generally agree on the advantages of automation, but employees put more emphasis on the risks than leaders do. That is understandable due to potential job losses – only 40 percent of business leaders see a risk compared to 48 percent of employees. Overall, nearly…
Ransomware Makes Up Small Share Of Growing Malware Threat
One type of malware has captured the attention of the world. Recent ransomware attacks show the devastating effects it can have on business and infrastructure. After a worldwide attack with a cryptoworm called “WannaCry” in May, another attack with a strain of ransomware called “Petya” started on Tuesday and kept on spreading around the world…
Asia’s Civilian Aircraft Fleet To Be Biggest By Far In 2035
The biggest air show and fair worldwide has opened on Monday at Le Bourget airport in Paris. The biggest aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, will of course be taking part in the exhibition that runs until Sunday. According to a report by the Chicago based firm, 39,000 new civilian aircraft at a combined value of $5.9 trillion could be needed…
Google Leads The Race For AI Domination
Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, is the company’s biggest event of the year. One of the main talking points at this year’s conference will likely be artificial intelligence. Google has been slowly injecting AI into many of its products and services and the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai has sounded very bullish on the prospects of artificial…
200,000+ Systems Affected By WannaCry Ransom Attack
More than 200,000 computers across 150 countries have been affected by a large-scale cyberattack in the past few days. The ransomware WannaCry encrypts information on computers and asks users to pay $300 in exchange for decryption. According to press reports, the malicious software was first spotted in Russia but rapidly spread across the globe in…
U.S. Top Source Of DDoS Attacks in Q4 2016
Throughout 2016, China led the way in being the main source country for distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS). In Q4 however, the U.S. took first place as China slipped to fourth. With over 180,000 attacks, there is a large gap between the United States and the second-placed UK. According to Akamai, the total of 751,895 attacks marks a…
The Cost Of Operating America’s Fighter Planes (Infographic)
Procuring modern modern combat aircraft is expensive with the unit cost of a single F-35A coming to $98 million, according to Lockheed Martin. However, keeping fighter jets airborne is also expensive. An F-22A costs $33,500 to operate every hour, while the F-35 costs $28,500 per hour according to U.S. Defense Department data. With the former striking ISIS targets…