Autonomous Vehicles

In the Digital Age, we often contemplate which professions today won't exist five or 10 years from now. But, fortunately, innovation is creating new ones to replace them, with many of these positions commanding salaries well into six-figure territory. Even better, a great deal of jobs in emerging tech qualify as "very cool"; they're all about pursuing intriguing discoveries while using the latest versions of IT tools. To find out which seven stand out as the very best, consider this list of the "Hottest Emerging Tech Jobs in 2019" from FitSmallBusiness.com. They include R&D test engineers for self-driving cars, machine learning experts and blockchain developers.

In the Digital Age, we often contemplate which professions today won't exist five or 10 years from now. But, fortunately, innovation is creating new ones to replace them, with many of these positions commanding salaries well into six-figure territory. Even better, a great deal of jobs in emerging tech qualify as "very cool"; they're all about pursuing intriguing discoveries while using the latest versions of IT tools. To find out which seven stand out as the very best, consider this list of the "Hottest Emerging Tech Jobs in 2019" from FitSmallBusiness.com. They include R&D test engineers for self-driving cars, machine learning experts and blockchain developers.

South Korea's SK Hynix Inc on Thursday said it would spend $107 billion building four factories, as the memory chip maker seeks to maintain its competitiveness in the face of Chinese efforts to become a leading chipmaking nation. The chip fabrication plants will be built on a 4.5 million square meter site south of Seoul beginning 2022, complementing two existing domestic factories that will receive a separate 55 trillion won ($49 billion) investment over the next decade. The plans for the factories, producing DRAM and next-generation chips, come as chipmakers prepare for a surge in demand to power new technology such as fifth-generation (5G) communication networks and artificial intelligence, even as a slowdown in smartphone sales kills off a two-year chip boom. "Though there is not enough chip demand for autonomous cars now, I believe there will be much more demand for self-driving vehicles in the next 10 years or as early as in 2023 or 2024," said analyst Kim Young-gun at Mirae Asset Daewoo.

SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom will collaborate to create a new blockchain ID that will borderless, they said. SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom will collaborate to create a blockchain ID with the aim to ease authentication processes, the companies have announced. The South Korean telco will sign an memorandum of understanding to that effect with its German counterpart's research arm, T-Labs, at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC). The two will use blockchain technology to create a mobile digital ID that can be used for authentication, entry control, transactions, and contracts. The ultimately aim will be to make a "borderless" ID, much like a passport, that can used across different countries.

Self-driving cars have a blemished reputation, but autonomous vehicles are the future. Autonomous car companies are continuously upgrading themselves and their products. However, self-driving cars have been involved in accidents. Regardless of the cause and severity, all these cases have raised some questions about the reliability issues about autonomous vehicles. Safety is of the utmost importance during a commute.

SEATTLE (The Borowitz Report)--Amazon drones stand "ready and waiting" to deliver copies of Robert Mueller's official report, free of charge, to every American household as early as next week, the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, confirmed on Wednesday. According to Bezos, Amazon has been planning the Mueller delivery mission for months, quietly building its drone fleet from a meagre two hundred to well over three million. "Amazon will be doing same-day delivery of Mueller's report the day it is released, free of charge, to both Prime and non-Prime households," Bezos said. "This is our way of giving something back." News of the offer sent the Mueller report zooming to No. 1 on Amazon's best-seller list within minutes.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is still working to figure out the best way of making sure that people fly their drones safely and legally. It's very much a work in progress, and has been for years. At this point, anyone who wants to fly a drone weighing more than 250 grams (even just for fun in the backyard) must register that drone and follow some generally common sense rules and regulations. The FAA, to their credit, has been keeping track of how this has all been going, and late last week they announced a few important updates. The new change that will affect everyone is that all drones are now required to display registration information externally.

Samsung has unveiled a whole range of new smartphones, including the Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10e and Galaxy S10 . The official release date is on 8 March but UK customers can already pre-order the phone from EE, Sky Mobile, O2, BT Mobile and other local networks. Depending on which network they choose. The full price of the S10 without a network plan is £799, while the S10e is £699 and the S10 is £899. Anyone who pre-orders the S10 or S10 before the official release date will receive a free pair of Samsung Galaxy Buds headphones.

Samsung has announced a range of new state-of-the-art smartphones, 10 years after its first ever flagship Galaxy S-series smartphone. The Galaxy S10 comes in three variants - the Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 - and features a number of new features, including an ultrasonic in-screen fingerprint sensor and ground-breaking camera. The S10 includes a triple rear camera system, which includes an ulta-wide and telephoto lens to take pictures ranging from landscapes to "incredible" close-ups. "With this camera, what you see is what you get," said Suzanne De Silva, director of product marketing at Samsung. Samsung partnered with Instagram to allow Galaxy S10 users to upload images to the photo-sharing app directly from the camera.

People's shoes are crashing after a Nike app stopped working. Nike's new Adapt BB shoes have been hailed as the future of sneakers, after they were released just days ago. They use futuristic motors to allow them to be precisely tightened up automatically, without any shoelaces or other input. All of that can be controlled by an app, which allows people to slip on the shoes and then let the motors do the work of tightening them up, in a way shoelaces would traditionally work. They use much the same technology that allowed Nike to recreate the self-lacing shoes from Back To The Future in a limited run.