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15 Cool Augmented Reality Apps for Shopping

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As always, retailers are doing their best to harness the newest technological innovations to provide the best shopping experience to buyers. From being able to touch products by hand to shoppable store windows, retailers are leaving no stone unturned, their latest being the use of augmented reality for shopping. With shopping becoming more about a blend of online, mobile and traditional brick-and-mortar stores, brands are looking into more innovative ways to capture customer attention. Augmented reality allows customers to engage with brands in a completely new way.

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So, how different is augmented reality (AR) from virtual reality (VR)? Both are controlled by the computer environment and manipulated with instinctive motions. The main difference lies in the blending of the real and virtual, found majorly in AR in which users do not require any specialized hardware at all. Using smartphone apps, one can easily augment reality shopping with the usual traditional ways of selecting products at the store. Read more…

Top 20 Tech’s False Promises and Exaggerated Claims

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In an ideal setting, all tech promises would become a reality and come to existence without any delays. Such things as tech education could possibly work without much hassle. However, even the technologies we use today went through a lot of trials and tests. That is to mean that we live in a world that is not perfect. There is no guarantee that the projects funded on crowdfunding sites will work at some point. The only thing left to look at is the warning sign indicating that a project isn’t actually what it appears to be.

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In a number of occasions, we have seen many promises in tech that have not lived to their expectations. This has disappointed many sponsors of such projects. Here are probably the Top 20 tech’s false promises and exaggerated claims that never came to be. Read more…

20 Super Cool Wearable Tech Gadgets You Should Have

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With the leaps and bounds technology has been making, it’s like living in the future. Over the past few years, we have achieved video games in virtual reality, watches that can track how active we are, and so much more that have or will come to fruition.

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Now, you can even hold the majority of these gadgets in the palm of your hand. Lately, there isn’t a much better conversation starter than a t-shirt that changes as you wear it! If you are someone on the go, these are the tech gadgets you’ve been waiting for! Read more…

20 Best Gadgets to Spy and Track Someone

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Do you have a suspicious feeling that someone close to you just isn’t being quite so honest when they tell you where they will be? Dreamed of being just like James Bond as you were growing up? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then this is just for you!

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In today’s world, it’s best to do what we can to seek out the truth and get to know people as best as we can to keep our lives, hearts and homes safe from harm. If you have a little spy work to handle, these adult spy gadgets are what you need. Read more…

15 Facts About Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg You’ll be Amazed

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Recently, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg embarked on a heated public exchange about artificial intelligence or AI. Musk said that AI could potentially bring damage to human life, while Zuckerberg tagged Musk’s predictions as irresponsible. Musk then said that Zuckerberg’s understanding of AI was limited.

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Truth is, AI technologies are inevitable by now. And it has become fundamental to both people’s businesses. But that isn’t the main point. It looks like the two have some bad blood going and this has started to generate some buzz in the tech community. Time to grab some popcorn, maybe? Read more…

Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg: 15 Comparisons

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The founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk and the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg continue debating on the role of Artificial Intelligence in the future. This time, Elon Musk has publicly commented on the previous words of Mark Zuckerberg calling his understanding of the subject is “limited”.

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In the light of this news, let’s compare two of the greatest minds of our time. And we will start with their attitude regarding the role of Artificial Intelligence in the future. Read more…

15 Jobs that Will be Replaced by Robots Soon

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People love to make their life easier, and they work hard on securing better and more efficient working conditions for themselves. From the first men using a rock cut firewood and hunt animals, all the way to supercomputers solving complex mathematical problems. Through all these years, mankind struggled to find tools that would allow us to perform better and faster.

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Over the course of time, we created machines that are able to perform basic human tasks and replace people altogether. As the technology progresses, we witness an increasing number of human jobs that are now obsolete. Machines and software are able to do the work that men did before, and not only do it, but do it better than us. This is becoming a pretty hot topic as people are beginning to be afraid about their job security. If you think that your job is secure, here is a list of 15 jobs that soon may have no more human operators. Read more…

15 Incredible Predictions on the Future of Bitcoin

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Innovative technologies continuously enhancing everything we do and the world is becoming more and more digital-dependent. Smartest countries would embrace, understand and better adopt the strategies to blend physical with the digital to turn things flawless and accurate. The emergence of Bitcoins and its growing popularity are signalling towards a future enriched with swift, secure and fast money transaction. Comparing to the conventional financial systems such as banks, Bitcoins offer compelling advantages with the huge potential to transform the entire financial sector. It is quickly becoming the currency of choice and businesses all over the world are now starting to accept them.

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15 Surprising Facts About Tesla’s Self-Driving Cars

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Tesla’s self-driving cars have been around for a while. It’s important to remember that there are two types of autonomous or self-driving cars. The first one doesn’t require the intervention of the driver. The second is a semi-autonomous. It’s equipped with a self-driving system, so it requires driver intervention.

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It’s predicted that, in 2050, autonomous cars will represent 100% of the vehicle fleet in the world. In some surveys, people are worried about the use of these cars. They also fear that their safety will be compromised because drivers are no longer in full control. Furthermore, the AI of this type of car can decide to sacrifice the life of the driver to save other people’s lives. Read more…

10 Amazing Things the Future of Facial Recognition Can Do

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Rewinding a little, do you remember the feature Facebook introduced that recognized you and your friends in your photographs and suggested to tag them? Now the moment you upload a picture, Facebook tags everyone for you.

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This amazing technology is known as Face Recognition. The improved algorithms help in identifying your friends’ faces after they have been tagged for a few times. It is surprising to know that a human developed technology can recognize faces with maximum accuracy, just like humans. Read more…

Google Self-Driving Car Vs Tesla Autopilot System: 10 Facts

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It is strange that how we can easily discuss the technologies like self-driving cars today. It was just the last decade when the world get introduced to the carts that run on the fuel instead of horses and other animals. Today, we are working on the cars which don’t need any human involvement to drive around the cities.

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Talking about the self-driven or autopilot cars, two companies are investing heavily in it. One is the world renowned automobile manufacturing company Tesla, and the other is famous because of its search engine services and other tech devices Google. Read more…

10 Tech Companies Might Face Extinction in 10 Years: Here’s Why

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Most often than not, it is hard to tell when a brand has failed, most particularly if a company fails while its brand retains its fame. In a merger or acquisition, the better-known brand represents the new company, regardless of the financial stability of the company before the merger took place.

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While no one wishes for a company to fail, it’s the reminisce-inducing companies hanging on the cliff of bankruptcy that grab our attention. We watch these companies flounder until they give their final bankrupt breath and pass into the records of history. Read more…

15 Amazing Features to Expect in Our Future Smartphones

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How were you imagining the future of smartphones back in 2007? It was the year when the very first iPhone was launched. We were all surprised by the new technology, but that was only the beginning.

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From this point of time, can we predict where we’re headed? We can try. The current trends give us some hints of how the future of smartphones will look like. We’ll list 15 amazing features we expect to see in one of the next devices we buy. Read more…

10 Amazing Ways Augmented Reality Will Improve Our Life

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The Augmented Reality (AR) is making a loud roar as the latest innovation in technology proves that it is useful to improve the lives of people. Augmented reality is a mixture of real life and virtual reality. Developers create an image within applications that allows blending in with the content in the real environment. With the help of AR, users can interact with virtual items.

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Also, users can interact with virtual contents in the real world that AR is viewing. Users can distinguish the difference between the two. Read more…

Nikola Tesla’s 20 Extraordinary Facts and Secrets

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Nikola Tesla was one of the most amazing inventors of the world who was extremely underrated and did not receive the appropriate recognition he deserved. He possessed one of the most unique set of skills which categorized him as a genius. As a futurist and an inventor he proposed several technological ideas which we use today. One of his most notable contributions to science and technology was the design of the AC electric supply system used today.

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He proposed solutions in electricity, telephony, mechanical engineering which was mostly overlooked by the community because most of them were then considered as farfetched and nearly impossible, but are of use in our daily lives today. Read more…