In this modern era where everything is moving towards digitization, edge computing has left no stone unturned in making its way into businesses and industries. Its popularity is growing due to the huge computing demands of cloud users and massive data explosion through IoT. Business associates are finding it the best way to streamline IoT traffic and facilitate real-time, local data analysis. IIoT has paved way to move data processing closer to its source, which involves actual industrial machines. A survey says that edge computing will reach peak productivity in the very near future. The growing innovations in AI and IoT indicate that edge computing is likely to gain maturity as well.

About the author: Anish Sebastian co-founded Babyscripts in 2013, which has partnered with dozens of health systems for its data-centric model in prenatal care. As the CEO of the startup, Anish has focused his efforts on product and software development, as well as evidence-based validation of their product. Prior to this, he founded a research analytics startup and served as a senior tech consultant at Deloitte. Last month saw the rollout of the latest upgrades to Amazon's Echo speaker line: earbuds, glasses and a ring that connect to Amazon's personal assistant Alexa. These new products are just three examples of a growing trend to incorporate technology seamlessly into our human experience, representing the ever-expanding frontiers for technology that have moved far past the smartphone. These trends and others are going to make a big impact in the healthcare space, especially as providers, payers and consumers alike slowly but surely recognize the need to incorporate tech into their workflows to meet the growing consumer demand for digital health tools.

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Every person who brings a new Echo speaker from Amazon into their home gets automatically recorded every time they utter the "Alexa" wake word. That is, unless they mute the microphone on the device itself. Or diligently go to the Alexa smartphone app, to manually delete the recordings. Amazon could offer the option of not recording us, but it doesn't. And it will tell you every way but Tuesday how important the recordings are to "improve" the Alexa experience.

Chinese technology company Xiaomi announced plans to invest more than 50 billion yuan ($7.2 billion) over a five-year period in an "All in AIoT" strategy, according to Reuters. This ups the original $1.5-billion, five-year investment plan announced in January 2019, which focused on expanding in-house and third-party products compatible with the Xiaomi digital assistant, Xiao AI. Xiaomi also hoped to develop the capabilities of its AI such that it could better serve as the intelligent focal point of the growing ecosystem of compatible devices. By investing in this space, Xiaomi hopes to supplement and shift away from its declining core business of smartphones. Since introducing a bevy of Xiao AI-enabled products -- including TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, wearables, and even rice cookers -- Xiaomi managed to offset the decline in its core smartphone segment with a 44% year-over-year (YoY) growth in the IoT and lifestyle products segment, according to the earnings report for the quarter ending September 30, 2019.

From The Terminator to Blade Runner, pop culture has always leaned towards a chilling depiction of artificial intelligence (AI) and our future with AI at the helm. Recent headlines about Facebook panicking because their AI bots developed a language of their own have us hitting the alarm button once again. Should we really feel unsettled with an AI future? News flash: that future is here. If you ask Siri, the helpful assistant who magically lives inside your phone, to read text messages and emails to you, find the nearest pizza place or call your mother for you, then you've made AI a part of your everyday life.

"Innovate or die" is now truer than ever before. AI is impacting industries across the board. It is transforming sectors that were characterized by long-standing, time-tested processes and cultures and for whom inculcating new changes was considered incredibly difficult. AI with its chatbots, recommendation systems, etc. is doing to the industry what cloud computing did 10 years ago. So much so that International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that global spending on AI will reach $57.6 billion by 2021. Let us take a look at the various sectors which are being impacted by the surge in AI.

Google says it only records interactions with connected devices like the Google Home speaker when we use the "wake word," of "Hey, Google," or "OK, Google." But when using many of the Google smartphone apps with a microphone for voice search, or even Google on the desktop with voice commands, it can actually record every word you say to it – whether you use the wake word or not. The fine print is that you have to click on the microphone in the apps to communicate with Google. Once you do that, Google will start transcribing you, word for word, and storing your commands, in text and audio, as USA TODAY discovered in tests this week. This is similar to Google's monitoring of our keystrokes.

Seattle-based smart home appliance maker Wyze, which is popular for selling its products cheaper than its competitors, has been accused of a data breach and trafficking the data to Alibaba Cloud servers in China. In response to the alleged data breach against its production database, Wyze logged outfits users out of their accounts and has strengthened security for its servers. "Customers endured a lengthy reauthentication process as the company responded to a series of reports claiming that the company stored sensitive information about people's security cameras, local networks, and email addresses in exposed databases.", Texas-based Twelve Security, a self-described "boutique" consulting firm, claimed of a data breach against Wyze's two Elasticsearch databases on Medium yesterday. The data has come from 2.4 million users from the United States, United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and parts of Malaysia.

What does the future hold? For me it is at least full of bacon: packing my scallops and shrimp, sitting next to my eggs, spread over my Waldorf salads. But 2020 is also full of technological progress and the continuation of the innovations that have made the world race faster than you can say "not too crisp, please." Three fields hold the most promise for the tech world in the coming year: internet of things (IoT); artificial intelligence (especially AI & # 39; s most visible face, voice assistants); and 5G connections and devices. Make no mistake: just like a steak that flavors a steak, it is the combination of these trends that really unlocks their power.