Cloud computing

• [New] The Coinbase DPO will further accelerate digital banking and investing platforms to address financial education around crypto for advisers.
• [New] Once unmanned driving becomes a reality, we will see disruption in practically all adjacent sectors and trigger the most disruptive industry transformation the world will see in the next 10 years.
• [New] There is a significant opportunity in RWE for life sciences companies and payers to find shared value, specifically with patient engagement programs designed using digital health platforms to produce similar outcomes to remote patient monitoring systems across a wide range of disease states.
• [New] A new study from Juniper Research, Mobile Payment Authentication: Biometrics, Regulation & Market Forecasts 2021-2025 has found that the number of users of software-based facial recognition to secure payments will exceed 1.4 billion globally by 2025, from just 671 million in 2020.
• [New] Vehicles equipped with the new Nvidia Orin systems will be hardware-ready for autonomous driving features such as a Highway Pilot feature that will be activated via a software download when it is verified to be safe for individual geographic locations and conditions.
• [New] Startup automaker Faraday Future will deploy the Orin platform in its flagship FF 91 EV (electric vehicle), with plans to achieve advanced highway autonomous driving capabilities and advanced parking and summon features when it goes on sale in 2022.
• [New] The networking-as-a-service component of Cisco Plus will arrive in late 2021 and will focus on SD-WAN.
• [New] The Apache Spark 3.0 libraries are accelerated using Nvidia's RAPIDS platform, which will dramatically accelerate much of the boring prep work required to bring new machine learning models into production.
• [New] Imagine that there is a startup that wants to offer speech to text processing using AI who uses GCP and discovers that now Google Cloud has a similar (and competing product) under its AI and Machine Learning product offering.
• [New] For years, the U.S. health care system lagged behind many industries when it came to embracing new technology and software, wary that sensitive health records could be breached.
• [New] Worldwide revenues for the AI market, including software, hardware, and services, is forecast to reach $327.5 billion in 2021, up 16% from 2020.
• [New] Hong Kong Digital Asset Exchange, the first digital asset exchange to combine both an online platform and a sizable physical store in Hong Kong, plans to launch a one-stop NFT (Non-Fungible Token) trading platform in the third quarter of 2021.
• [New] The South Korean company announced that it will continue to make phones until the end of the second quarter of the year, and that users who buy new devices should expect service support and security software updates, for a period of time for certain devices.
• [New] In response, the United States and its partners should build new models, grounded in the full range of armed group social media usage, if they hope to anticipate the future of malicious online activity by armed groups.
• [New] The next global threat to exploit social media will emerge from the groups currently avoiding detection or attention by platforms.
• [New] Online marketplaces will be required to collect and remit RST on sales of taxable goods by third parties to customers in Manitoba made through their platforms; and.
• [New] Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned unregistered investment-tech platforms to desist from offering foreign securities to Nigerians.
• [New] 170 nations have pledged to significantly reduce consumption of single-use plastics by 2030, and China is set to ban and restrict single-use and disposable plastics over the next five years.
• Hyundai developed its ICCU to allow for bidirectional power conversion, meaning that vehicles based on the E-GMP platform will be able to use its hardware to output power to external accessories, appliances, and eventually even charge other electric vehicles requiring a bump in electron supply.
• The number of travelers who enroll in the oversea medical tourism through its platform increased fivefold over the previous year, and more than 500,000 Chinese visitors are expected to go on medical tourism.
• Cisco has released software updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software that could permit an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain escalated privileges on an affected system.
• Developers who use Qiskit to improve their algorithms will have access to test them on IBM's cloud-based quantum computing platform.
• Rather than replacing current computer architectures, IBM is betting that quantum computers will gain traction in the coming years by taking on very specific tasks that are offloaded from a classic computing system to a quantum platform.

Last updated: 18 April 2021