“Smart cities”—in which technology continuously collects data to efficiently manage assets and resources—are on the horizon, and they will have a major impact not only on the way people live, but also on the way businesses function. From utilities to real estate, there are many industries that can benefit from smart city technology.

Some of the smartest people in the world are working on artificial intelligence (AI), but they’re running into a big problem: bias.

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, AI technology is prone to the same biases that humans, either consciously or unconsciously, weave into their perceptions of reality. Black American defendants in criminal cases are victims of machine bias based on the alleged risks they pose to society. One company using an algorithm to help them hire effectively found that it penalized applicants from women’s colleges.

With the speed at which new consumer technology is introduced, it’s hard to predict what the new trends will be in the next decade or so. There are a variety of predictions of what’s to come in consumer tech—some for updates to existing technology, some for ambitious revolutions—but what is actually realistic in the short term?

While fractional CTOs are usually associated with startups, there has been a change in thinking in recent years about the value that a part-time CTO can add and now even larger companies are embracing their use. It has become clear to many in the industry that a fractional CTO can fulfill the same responsibilities as a full-time one.

In Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP), released Monday, the Alphabet company echoed its assurances that the Quayside project would abide by all provincial and federal government regulations encompassing data, including both existing and future privacy laws.

When Apple introduced smartphones, it brought the internet into people's pockets. The mobile user interface changed the way we consumed content, and on-demand services were born.

As the launch of Facebook's cryptocurrency project grows nearer, the network is still struggling with scrubbing fake crypto ads.

Fresh off an apparent victory in his trade scuffle with Mexico, President Donald J. Trump ratcheted up his ongoing trade war with China on Monday. Trump warned in a CNBC interview that if China President Xi Jinping fails to appear at the G-20 summit later this month in Japan, he’ll immediately slap an additional $300 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports, which could be bad news for the technology and manufacturing sectors.

Considering Apple is making a $6,000 computer, you might not think it would worry about a price hike for the iPhone. But Foxconn, which manufactures many of Apple’s phones, says it could move production out of China if the U.S. puts more tariffs on the country as part of an escalating trade war.

The global internet population now exceeds 3.7 billion users and when you consider that all are consumers and creators of data (even texting or tweeting counts,) the amount of data involved in a single minute is obviously high. As the Domo infographic demonstrates, 456,000 tweets are sent in a minute on social media. More than 3.5 million Google searches take place in the same timeframe. Is your website showing up in relevant search queries?