For every benevolent robot in science fiction, there are a dozen malevolent – from Metropolis to the Terminator, most robots caused fear and havoc in their movie worlds and consequently to that of the viewer. Technology is catching up to imagination, but are we ready to trust the robots about...
Research shows that most users prefer a female tone for their voice assistant, with a recent report suggesting this perpetuates a harmful gender bias. Perhaps making the male voice version the default (as I assume how the device responds remains the same) will alter both preference and deference. To read...
Meeting Debriefs / Telecom Council Posts
by Telecom Council · Published May 17, 2019 · Last modified May 20, 2019
Author: Telecom Council Staff On an unusually rainy May Thursday, the Telecom Council held our most recent open meeting on the subject of Network Automation. The general thrust of the presentations is that with the trends of virtualization / NFV, Containerization, SDN, 5G densification and service agility, the job of managing and orchestrating the network...
5G has been touted as a the perfect partner for IoT, but recent reports suggest it will be a long romance, with a protracted adoption rate. To read the full Enterprise IoT Insights article, click here.
There are new opportunities to be explored and new challenges to be faced as data is stored and processed locally, distant from the traditional data center or the cloud. We’ll explore some of these in our upcoming meeting, but in the meantime, here’s a great article from IoT Agenda.
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