Author Archives: Tracey Mellier

How drones and automated rovers monitor critical infrastructure

TechRepublic’s Dan Patterson spoke with founder and CEO of VOS.AI, Danny Rodriguez, about how drones and automated rover monitor critical infrastructure. Dan Patterson: Robots and AI don’t rule the world quite yet, but they’re coming close. AI is powering drones that help save companies time, energy, and money, and can help protect critical infrastructure. Danny, […]

Amazon’s facial recognition technology is being used to identify celebrities. Could it soon spot you?

Hundreds of years of technological innovation and here we are: a machine that can tell a Witherspoon from a Kidman. Both the New York Times and Sky News in the UK used Amazon’s machine-learning platform to identify guests at the Royal wedding in May, but for some, this clever deployment points to a more worrying trend. Critics […]

8 biggest risk factors for company-owned mobile devices and how to avoid them

Mobile devices pose some unique problems when it comes to securing data. Learn some of the challenges and recommendations for success. Desktop workstations, servers, network firewalls and switches, HVAC units and UPS devices all have one thing in common: as traditional in-house hardware they are quite easy to physically secure, either through restricted access, video […]

The Sydney and Melbourne suburbs where incomes have grown the fastest since 2010

Australia’s wealthiest suburbs are racing away from their poorer neighbours, recording up to twice the rate of growth in incomes since 2010. New figures show median incomes have grown by just 15 per cent since 2010 across outer Sydney and outer Melbourne – barely keeping up with the cost of living – while suburbs such as […]