2020’s major tech trends place human beings at their centre. No longer are new technologies and devices considered in terms of how they might be applied, but rather in terms of how they could serve human beings and therefore improve people’s daily lives.
The term application modernisation refers to a procedure which enables companies to transform their business applications, so as to render them more efficient and less costly. It has become an almost obligatory requirement for any company wishing to keep up with market trends.
Pharming is a form of cyber-attack which closely resembles phishing, but differs in several of its characteristics. It is one of the favourite methods used by cyber criminals to steal personal data or access sensitive data.
Deep learning is a sub-category of machine learning and is closely linked to artificial intelligence. It is via this process that machines learn to reason in a logical and consequential way, by using neural networks.
The term ‘influencer’ is used to describe someone who has achieved a certain amount of prestige on social networks and is able to ‘influence’ their followers’ choices, thanks to their considerable communicative abilities. Not everyone possesses such abilities and the market is now starting to become saturated, but those who manage to be successful at it can earn mind-blowing sums of money.
CES 2020 recently came to an end in Las Vegas and, as we have come to expect, this international electronics show hosted the presentation of some great new innovative ideas. It was a chance for the public to explore the latest developments in various sectors, while marvelling at state-of-the-art technology.
The term open approach working refers to a current school of thought that encourages the members of a team to maintain an open and flexible mindset. The concept can be summarised as an active cooperation method, which leaves each individual free to express their full potential
The concept of interoperability between IT and healthcare is becomingly increasingly important. Implementing IT technologies within the healthcare system is an objective which can and must be achieved, in order to improve the quality of services offered and facilitate scientific research.
The earth is currently in the middle of a climate emergency. It is not just the usual activists and protesters, indignant at inadequate government policies who are saying this; authoritative and competent scientists are saying the same thing. Eleven thousand of these scientists have come together to write one of the most important reports on the dire environmental situation our ecosystem is currently facing.
The languages of probabilistic programming are a special type of programming languages which create models and forecasts by analysing data samples. They are also known as PPLs and have led to huge changes in the way software is written.
Kali Linux is an interesting suite of programs (estimated at over 300 applications), which enables many different kinds of IT security tests to be carried out. This collection of software is designed to help testers and digital forensic science experts identify holes in company networks, exploits and much more.
Web scraping refers to an IT technique which enables the collection of data relating to a website and its storage either locally or on a database. This procedure is completely automatic and is carried out using specific software, which is able to read and copy thousands of webpages in a very short space of time.
