Author: Connected World
Guidehouse Insights says the market for zero emissions trucks and buses are estimated to grow at a rate of 23% by 2032.
A lot of people have played around with ChatGPT, GoogleAI, or Simplify and are curious about how it can make basic tasks, like writing, easier. While the media likes to focus on the negative aspects of AI (artificial intelligence), such as plagiarism, fake photos, or displacing workers, the focus should be on how AI can be applied to solving real business problems across industries. The restaurant industry is no exception. Unlike tech tools that roll out standalone solutions in areas like POS (point-of-sale), marketing, and inventory, the proposition that AI needs to be built into existing tools restaurants are already…
The trend toward walkable urban development is gaining momentum. A decade ago, the National Assn. of Realtors found 60% of people favor neighborhoods with a mix of homes and stores, and an Urban Land Institute survey revealed 50% of residents ranked walkability as either a top or extremely high priority. Today, Walk Score rates the walkability of U.S. addresses from zero to 100, and research shows every point of Walk Score adds $3,250—or 0.9%—to a home’s value. Historically, planners designed U.S. cities to be walkable, but after World War II, families purchased cars and made a break for the suburbs.…
Juniper Research says operator losses from business messaging fraud to reduce by 66% in the next four years.
From corn to pigs, growers and producers are leveraging technology to maximize output. The amount of land available for growing and producing food is not increasing, but global population is. The need to do more with the same number of resources—or in some cases even fewer resources—is a key pain point in modern agriculture, as is dealing with the effects of climate change. One way the players in the agricultural and food value chains are not helping themselves in this regard is by wasting energy at just about every link in the chain—and this carbon output then exacerbates the climate…
The Red Hat Summit 2023 recently wrapped up in Boston, Mass. The company showcased its ecosystem work and offered sessions on automation, hybrid cloud, and edge. Plus, there were several announcements made at the event. The two-in-one event combined the Red Hat Summit with AnsibleFest, a previously separate event focused on Red Hat’s open-source Ansible Automation Platform. Red Hat is a provider not only of automation solutions but also hybrid cloud infrastructure, middleware, agile integration, cloud-native application development, and management solutions. At the summit, the company announced the latest fruit from its partnership with ABB—early-access availability of ABB Ability Edgenius…
IDC says worldwide Wi-Fi-enabled product shipments fell for the first time in 2022, but will continue to grow to 4.6 billion in 2027.
Gartner survey finds 81% of marketing leaders have contingency plans in response to disruptions, but only 21% follow them.
ABI Research says 70% of technical contributions and 93% of standards essential patent declarations focused on RAN standards.
Some people are still more cautious at work, home, and in social settings following the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies. Case in point: eating out. The good news is the restaurant business is getting an infusion of technology, as the nation is returning to pre-pandemic lifestyles. Americans are spending about $70 billion each month dining out; 34% of people come together at casual dining restaurants once a week, and 49% of food expenditures are spent on grabbing a meal away from home. To help the restaurant industry be more efficient, as the cost of food and labor skyrockets, new…