Japanese insurance company to replace 34 claim staff with IBM Watson Explorer in January for $1.7M up front, $128K/year, saving $1.1M /year in employee salaries – Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce

Continental expands product and service portfolio to offer over-the-air updates for multiple electronic control units in the vehicle.– Inmarsat’s global communication network connects vehicles… /PRNewswire/ — Step by step the vehicle is becoming part of the Internet of Everything, interfacing with an ever expanding spectrum of vehicle manufacturer and commercial services while continuously increasing owner value with every passing year. As a result, the software in modern vehicles has grown to millions of lines of ever-evolving code.

Chosen by Better Homes & Gardens editors, and technology and digital media expert “Smart technology is now a part of every aspect our homes from our kitchens and bathrooms to outdoor living spaces and laundry rooms almost every new appliance is or will be connected,” says Better Homes & Gardens Editor-in-Chief . “We put an emphasis on products that we believe will help the modern homeowner keep up with the latest developments.”

Incredibly detailed 3D scans of the Forth Bridge will be used in new interactive games promoting engineering skills for school children. The 300,000 scanning project was one of the most challenging and complex 3D scans undertaken anywhere in the world and amassed a data-cloud of many billions of dimensionally accurate points on the structures of the Forth Bridge, Forth Road Bridge and the partially built Queensferry Crossing.

ZL Technologies is a provider of big data management solutions that help its corporate customers better perform tasks like eDiscovery, compliance, records management and analytics. From his vantage point as ZL’s CEO, Kon Leong has offered up several compelling predictions for new directions that the information technology industry will take in 2017.

ING International Survey – Mobile Banking 2016 report . In its annual survey, ING shows that the share of mobile device users in Europe who bank by mobile has swelled to 47% – up from 41% in 2015 – with another 16% expected to adopt the technology in the next 12 months.

Blow up dolls have been part of stag dos and comedy sketches for as long as most of us can remember. With their scratchy-seamed plastic and hilariously obscene ‘O’ mouths, they’re tacky enough to be nonthreatening and are seen as nothing more than the butt of crude jokes to most people.