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TIME highlighted the Best Inventions that are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun.  The list contains nominations across a variety of categories based on key factors, including originality, creativity, influence, ambition, and effectiveness.  The list of 100 innovations...

In no other sector does artificial intelligence (AI) have a greater impact than in manufacturing – from intelligent maintenance to Industry 4.0 and human-robot collaboration. Everything is still in its infancy, but soon almost all sectors will be affected. The...

Against the background of increasing complexity, dynamics and variant diversity, the complete digital Networking of people, machines and things along the entire value chain of a product to become a global competitive factor and a growth opportunity for Europe’s highly...

Many organisations want to digitise. But if you take a closer look, it often turns out: A fair face on the outside, a poo on the inside. To really realize the potential of digitization for a company, it takes courage...

At an event in Zurich, the HWZ University of Applied Sciences demonstrated how digitization can be made customer-oriented. Process Mining is the name of the technology that helps to reconcile process optimization and customer orientation. Many companies are switching to...

In poor visibility, your car could look for landmarks — under the surface of the road. MIT is working on self-driving technology that allows cars to “see” through the ground up to a depth of ten feet below the surface...

A survey of IT decision-makers shows where the challenges lie in the practical use of artificial intelligence (AI). Everyone who is involved in the use of information technology in companies has been involved in discussions about the use of artificial...

The rapidly developing technology that enables the digitalization of business processes offers great opportunities for the healthcare sector. Let us accompany Elisabeth Brönnimann, a now sprightly 80-year-old, for a while on her patient path in a not too distant future....

The dematerialization and virtualization of physical objects and thus the shift from hardware to software open up completely new potentials for innovation and efficiency increase in companies. CIOs should work closely with their business colleagues to exploit the potential of...

A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China have created a liquid metal material that is so light, it can float on water. The researchers are hoping the extremely light material could be used to construct lightweight exoskeletons and shape-shifting...