Investors looking for the most recent technology trends should look no further than the Gartner's Top Tech Trends 2016 list. The research firm has divided the top tech trends in business into several categories and we dove down into a few them to pull out some of the best ones for investors. They include: driverless cars, artificial intelligence, and virtual and augmented reality. IHS Automotive estimates that 10% of all light vehicles sold by 2035 will by fully autonomous (as in, they can drive themselves around everywhere). The group also anticipates that driverless cars will become ubiquitous some time after 2050.

The 4U4 card design of Inspur NF5568M4 is applicable to present electric power and heat dissipation designs of the data center, and is scalable to multi-machine and multi-card CPU computing clusters via the open-source Inspur Caffe-MPI becoming the mainstream CPU server used presently in the internet industry. Currently, Inspur's deep learning solution is being applied at Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Qihoo, iFLYTEK and JD and is supporting the "super brains" of various types of intelligentized services. As the neural network model grows in complexity, the computing performance necessary for the model training increases dramatically. The cluster-edition Caffe-MPI computing frame launched by Inspur achieves parallel computing of GPU server. It adopts high-performance mature MPI technology in computing -- carrying out parallel data optimization to the Caffe edition -- with the ability to organize multiple NF5568M4 into CPU parallel computing clusters via IB network.

Chinese technology company Baidu today announced the launch of a few new services within its Baidu Open Cloud public cloud infrastructure portfolio. Baidu TianSuan (Smart Big Data) lets customers "collect, store, process and analyze big data," Baidu said in a statement. Baidu TianXiang (Smart Multimedia Cloud) includes face recognition and live video streaming, while Baidu TianGong (Intelligent IoT Service) is a full-stack platform for integrating cloud applications with internet-connected devices. The additions bring Baidu more in line with the world's leading cloud infrastructure providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Amazon and Microsoft have both introduced Internet of Things (IoT) services.

International Business Machines is easily the most historical of all US IT computer behemoths. The question of what is IBM is today more apposite than ever. Any company that is 100 years old has faced challenges and met them but today's challenges are very different. It was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in Armonk, New York. IBM is being digitally disrupted. The company is transitioning from being an infrastructure player to being a data driven company.

About NVIDIA NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a computer technology company that has pioneered GPU-accelerated computing. It targets the world's most demanding users -- gamers, designers and scientists -- with products, services and software that power amazing experiences in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, professional visualization and autonomous cars. Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits and impact of the NVIDIA Inception Program; NVIDIA's commitment to help companies related to artificial intelligence; and funding through NVIDIA's GPU Ventures Program are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended May 1, 2016. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge.

CES--Volvo Cars will use the NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 deep learning- based computing engine to power a fleet of 100 Volvo XC90 SUVs starting to hit the road next year in the Swedish carmaker's Drive Me autonomous-car pilot program, NVIDIA announced today. Autonomous technology is an important contributor to Volvo's Vision 2020 -- its guiding principles for creating safer vehicles. This work has resulted in world-leading advancements in autonomous and semi-autonomous driving, and a new safety benchmark for the automotive industry. "Our vision is that no one should be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo by the year 2020," said Marcus Rothoff, director of the Autonomous Driving Program at Volvo Cars. "NVIDIA's high-performance and responsive automotive platform is an important step towards our vision and perfect for our autonomous drive program and the Drive Me project."

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Monday that chatbots will "fundamentally revolutionize how computing is experienced by everybody." Nadella explained that for now, bots will augment apps, but in time, human language will be taught to all computers and become "the new interface." "So pretty much everyone today who is building applications whether they be mobile apps or desktop apps or websites will build bots as the new interface, where you have a human dialogue interface versus menus of the past," he said. Nadella spoke onstage at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, an annual developer gathering in Toronto. He painted a similarly ambitious picture in April when Microsoft Bot Framework was launched at Build, Microsoft's annual developer conference.

Advancements in AI were recently spotlighted by AlphaGo, a computer program developed by Google's DeepMind team. The program -- which relies on decision-making algorithms and neural networks -- defeated a human European champion at the board game Go in a feat previously believed to be years away. On the investor side, Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital has said AI will deliver massive returns for investors betting on applications for industries including healthcare and entertainment. With this in mind, we used CB Insights' database to look at funding to artificial intelligence startups since 2010. Our artificial intelligence category covers startups primarily focused on developing AI, across areas including image processing, natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, and predictive APIs, among other core applications.

WALTHAM, MA--(Marketwired - Jun 23, 2016) - CloudLock, the leading provider of Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) and Cybersecurity-as-a-Service solutions, today announced the release of the next generation of its innovative machine learning capabilities to include suspicious login activity monitoring, location-based anomaly detection, and IP reputation analysis to identify anomalies, zero in on suspicious behavior, and pinpoint true threats across SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and IDaaS cloud platforms. The inability to detect real threats from millions of alerts they receive daily as well as the lack of timely response capabilities are the greatest challenges facing security teams today. Pioneered by CloudLock's research intelligence arm, the CyberLab, machine learning capabilities are the foundation of the Cloud Security Fabric, helping security teams narrow their focus on user activities indicative of true threats. Using the company's Cloud Threat Funnel methodology, along with big data technologies and multiple advanced clustering algorithms, CloudLock's machine learning technology continuously evolves based on analyzing the industry's largest data set spanning over one billion files and events monitored daily. CloudLock's expanded machine learning capabilities include: Suspicious Login Activity Monitoring captures high frequency login anomalies, such as login failures and login challenges from unusual devices, geographies and time periods for a given user, indicate potential threats to corporate user accounts.

HONG KONG, July 15, 2016 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Today Mills Media Arts LLC (MMA), formerly known as Mills Agency announced the acquisition of Jump City Media, a Hong Kong based mobile media think tank with a core focus on artificial intelligence. The acquisition gives MMA a global reach with offices now in New York, Los Angeles, London and Hong Kong while also adding more depth to the MMA marketing and mobile media expertise. The advanced mobile solutions group will operate in a new division within the company called Mobile Media Arts lab. Through the use of advanced technologies such as augmented reality, artificial intelligence and proximity aware services, the Mobile Media Arts Lab builds and integrates interoperable technology that propels advances in productivity and profoundly changes how people live in ways that they could not have imagined. The Mobile Media Arts Lab includes some of the top graphic artists, developers, engineers and data scientists in the industry.