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“As a society, we have experienced three distinct industrial revolutions: steam power, electricity, and information technology. I believe artificial intelligence (AI) is the engine fueling the fourth industrial revolution globally, digitizing and automating everywhere,” says Kai-Fu Lee, chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and author of ‘AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future’. “China is at the […]

Dame Judith Hackitt has spoken extensively about the construction industry’s need for a more joined-up approach. Her report, ‘Building a Safer Future: Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety’, produced in the wake of the UK Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017, made a number of recommendations on preventing similar incidents from taking place in the future. Her […]

Cybercrime is up 600% during the COVID-19 pandemic. That staggering statistic from a 2021 PurpleSec report includes all forms of cybercrime, from theft or embezzlement to data hacking and destruction. The rise of cybercrime is expected to cost companies around the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, growing from just $3 trillion in 2015. This rapid increase […]

Our world report on the Physical Security Business 2020 -2025 shows that the industry in the last two years has faced serious challenges, none more so than the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has proved to be robust and will return to significant growth by 2025.   Major manufacturers will continue to increase their share of […]

On May 7th 2021, the Colonial Pipeline Company announced it was the victim of ransomware cyberattacks that forced it to disable the largest petroleum pipeline in the US. The Colonial Pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day of gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and jet fuel on an almost  9,000 km route from Houston, Texas, to […]

Our smart buildings and smart cities are now being designed to sense and understand the world around them much like humans do. Networks of sensors hear via microphones in voice control, smell via air quality or gas monitors and feel via temperature, humidity, or pressure sensors. However, like in humans, sight is generally accepted as […]

We know by now that connected devices create a cybersecurity risk, yet we continue to connect devices. Big IoT hacks are widely reported, but we still demand smart buildings. Survey after survey shows that executives see cyberattacks as the biggest issue for the IoT, yet the same surveys show that the vast majority of companies […]

“The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday,” said the late Hungarian-British electrical engineer and Nobel prize-winning physicist, Dennis Gabor, CBE, FRS. In our modern world, […]