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Tech Titans
The 18th annual Tech Titans Awards Gala, sponsored by MediaKind, wrapped up its festivities by awarding a large number of trophies to women but all going to the highest caliber of technologists in North Texas. To find out who won and read up on their profiles in the Dallas Business Journal, visit the Gala page. Photos from the gala are also available there. Also, hear from many finalists themselves in these videos.
Live Mint
Silicon Valley just can't crack China. In July, Facebook won approval to open a subsidiary in China; a day later, its licence was revoked. In August, news surfaced that Google was working on censored versions of their products that comply with China's Great Firewall, the system used to control internet access. Backlash from Google's own employees forced the company's leadership to clarify that the project was exploratory.
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Dallas Observer
The West End is about to get its latest infusion of innovation. It will soon be home to a smart park, serve as the focal point of a case study for smart city technology and connect to Victory Park via a newly illuminated path. The developments are all happening in what is called the Dallas Innovation District, a title that represents the civic, corporate, startup and academic initiatives in the West End.
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The Dallas Morning News
Despite deaths from cell phones and other tech distractions, a huge percentage of the carnage on America's roads is still due to drinking and driving. Out of the 37,461 people killed on the roads in 2016, 10,497 people — nearly 30 percent — died because they were, or someone else was, drunk. An innovative way is emerging to cut that death toll, and it highlights the burgeoning issues of regulating autonomous vehicle (AV) technology.
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The Dallas Morning News
Despite having died 30 years go, rock 'n' roll legend Roy Orbison is about to go on tour. Forty years after he died, Elvis Presley performed on American Idol.
How did they do it? Through holograms, a technology that came to Dallas recently, permitting Holocaust survivor Max Glauben to share his story with generations well into the future, maybe even hundreds of years from now.
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CIO Dive
The multicloud strategy is driving efficiency, sidestepping vendor lock-in, lowering costs and improving application reliability for companies — and increasingly cropping up in tech companies' earnings calls as a crucial IT and cost savings strategy, according to a CB Insights report. Microservices have undergirded the adoption of multicloud in the enterprise, supported by cost- and resource-efficient containers that run the individual services independently, APIs to link microservices together and easy updates, according to the report.
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Cnet
Lexy Savvides writes, "Smoke is billowing from a five-story window. In between those thick plumes, I know there are two people trapped inside — but I can see only one.
How do I know there's a second person? From a thermal image that's being livestreamed from a drone. Thanks to the video's clear picture of who's inside the room, incident command instructs a firefighter to climb the ladder and make the rescue."
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TechRepublic
The Internet of Things, which is commonly called IoT, refers to the billions of devices around the world that are connected to the internet through sensors or Wi-Fi. It's basically a giant network of objects that connect to the internet. Each device collects data, and this data, known collectively as big data, is exchanged and analyzed.
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The Globe and Mail
The world's largest social networks blamed recent user declines on abuse crackdowns and a botched redesign, but mounting evidence points to a problem that could prove harder to fix: Social-media use may be reaching its peak.
Facebook Inc.'s core platform added no new users in the United States and Canada in the second quarter and lost one million in Europe – its most lucrative markets. Globally, the company signed up just 22 million new users, its slowest quarterly growth rate since analysts first began tracking the measure in 2011.
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MIT Technology Review
When Patrick McMullan wants a Diet Dr Pepper while he's at work, he pays for it with a wave of his hand. McMullan has a microchip implanted between his thumb and forefinger, and the vending machine immediately deducts money from his account. At his office, he's one of dozens of employees who have been doing likewise for a year now.
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