The promise of the Internet of Things turns surprisingly ugly when it comes to security, particularly in the business world, down to your office light bulb. But there’s a champion technology waiting in the wings to help.

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There’s no excuse today for nontechnical leaders to say they aren’t tech-savvy.

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The promise of virtual reality is immense, and obvious to anybody who has seen a 90s cyber-thriller (Johnny Mnemonic, anybody? How about Strange Days?): A portable holodeck that can transport a user to any time or place, while main-lining the nervous system with an almost overwhelming sense of “thereness”.

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Like most of the rest of the auto industry, BMW is betting that autonomous driving technology will be a key component of the solution to urban mobility as cities grow more congested. It’s linking up with Intel and Mobileye to get a jump on the competition.

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Expedia’s hotel business contributes to around 70% of its revenues and this percentage is expected to increase to almost 80% by the end of our review period. We expect Expedia’s hotel revenues to rise by about 129% over the next 5 years. Below, we outline some of the reasons for this.

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Recently, Amazon announced the launch of “Amazon Inspire”, a free service for search, discovery and distribution of digital educational resources. This platform is aimed at providing educators the ability to upload and share digital teaching resources as the company works towards a personalized learning environment for all students. Currently in beta stage, Amazon Inspire will give the company a strong hold in the growing digital education industry, despite being a free platform. It will also give a boost to other products that are key the growth prospects of other Amazon businesses, such as Kindle, Whispercast and Amazon Web Services for schools. According to MarketsandMarkets, the smart education and learning market is forecast to generate revenues of $446 billion by 2020. In addition, Amazon has an initiative to support the U.S. Department of Education’s Go Open initiative through this open learning platform. This, too, should enable the company to tap into this growing market.

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The news Thursday of the first traffic fatality of a driver using the semi-autonomous Tesla Autopilot system highlights a number of important issues. First and foremost is that Autopilot does not magically transform a current Model S or X into a self-driving car. Far from it in fact.  This crash also highlights that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was almost certainly wrong when said last fall, “I don’t think you need Lidar. I think you can do this all with passive optical and then with maybe one forward radar.”

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