Expert Insight on The Latest Tech Trends and News
— James Prestwood, Industry Analyst
The machine tool market is undergoing a significant shift, moving from simply supplying manufacturers with an asset and performing maintenance when it breaks, and instead now being expected to supply connected, digitally-enabled solutions. It is critical that these hardware suppliers recognize that just providing hardware will not retain competitive market shares, investing in supplying customers with a comprehensive suite of supporting software products to create truly turnkey solutions that can integrate into the digital threads constructed by manufacturers.
— Reece Hayden, Senior Analyst
Over the past month, several reports have emerged showing that public-facing, closed-source chatbots like ChatGPT are getting steadily worse at many tasks, including math and writing code. Researchers compared the accuracy and performance for GPT models over time and have shown that accuracy (for certain use cases like identifying prime numbers) fell from over 90% to c.2%. In addition, they found that ChatGPT became less transparent without showing its step-by-step process.
— Victor Xu, Research Analyst
Huawei unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the Mate 60 Pro, on August 29, 2023. This consumer device is a major milestone as it is the world's first consumer smartphone to feature satellite-calling capabilities. Powered by China's Tiantong-1 communications satellite system, this development marks a significant step in integrating SatCom into the mass consumer smartphone market. With the Huawei Mate 60 Pro, users can now make and receive direct calls with other smartphones via a satellite in Earth's orbit, without relying on any mobile signal.
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— Ryan Wiggin, Industry Analyst
Rockwell Automation, one of the largest providers of industrial automation and digital transformation technologies in the world, announced this week its acquisition of Canada-based Clearpath Robotics, a leader in Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solutions. Clearpath Robotics mostly develops AMRs for Research and Development (R&D), but its subsidiary OTTO Motors maintain a sole focus on delivering AMR solutions to manufacturers and warehouse operators. Rockwell’s addition of Clearpath and OTTO’s AMR capabilities to its extensive automation portfolio is helping create a more complete material handling solution for its customers.
— Maryam Zafar, Research Analyst
From Greece to Canada to Hawaii, unabating wildfires have devasted communities and cost billions of dollars’ worth of damage to local economies just over the last few weeks. To combat this vicious cycle, technology startups like Germany-based Dryad Networks and California-based Torch Sensors offer hopeful solutions with early wildfire detection technology. By providing real-time data on crucial parameters like temperature, humidity, and air quality in remote areas in the forest, these startups provide solutions to prevent wildfires from spreading by alerting authorities before they turn into deadly infernos.
— Elizabeth Stokes, Industry Analysts
Verizon announced a global Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) platform, Verizon Global IoT Orchestration. The platform enables IoT customers to manage devices internationally using the eSIM and roaming capabilities of Verizon’s international Mobile Network Operator (MNO) partners. IoT customers using the platform will be able to connect to a carrier partner’s network as a subscriber. At the time of the platform’s release, Verizon announced partnerships with Bell Canada and Telenor, and plans to add more MNO partnerships in the future.
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