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The Biggest Technology Trends In The Next 10 Years

The Biggest Technology Trends In The Next 10 Years

In 10 years, we’ll be half way through the next decade. And if the previous 10 years have been anything to go by, we can expect some radical changes.

I’m used to writing about where technology trends are heading in the future, but I usually focus on the next one to five years. This is because my work involves helping businesses use technology and data today, and that usually means leveraging what’s available right now or just around the corner.

But it’s also interesting to sometimes think about where it’s all heading. So here I want to try and peek a bit further into the future and come up with some ideas or predictions about how technology might change our lives on a longer timescale.

Of course, anything can happen in 10 years. It’s very possible that unforeseeable disruptive

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BAE agrees to buy space technology firm Ball Aerospace for $5.6bn | BAE Systems

BAE agrees to buy space technology firm Ball Aerospace for $5.6bn | BAE Systems

Britain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has agreed to buy the US space technology company Ball Aerospace for $5.6bn (£4.4bn), in one of the largest takeovers by a UK company this year.

The FTSE 100 defence company said the purchase of the Colorado-based business would help it to expand in technologies that were US defence priorities.

The deal comes amid a surge in spending on global military and spying technology prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It also follows the US setting up a separate arm of the military, space command, to try to keep up with China. Both have prompted western allies to recommit to bigger military budgets, to the delight of weapons manufacturers that have received huge orders.

Ball Aerospace’s parent company, Ball Corporation, traces its roots back to making paint cans and glass jars in the 1880s in Buffalo, New York, and it now makes beer cans

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Game-changing hearing aid technology has arrived in the Sault

Game-changing hearing aid technology has arrived in the Sault

Celebrate Better Hearing Month with customized hearing tech that incorporates AI and 4D sensors

What if your hearing aids were able to recognize what you most want to listen to? What if they could focus in on that while at the same time downplaying competing noise?

The latest technology in hearing aids does just that. It’s an important development for several reasons. For one, people who have untreated hearing loss can get used to it over time. They learn to live with it, unaware that this can have a detrimental impact on their overall wellbeing. 

“Treating a hearing loss not only improves the communication of those with hearing loss, it also has a positive impact on their psychological and physical well-being,” says Katie Koebel, Audiologist and Senior Manager, Audiology, at HearingLife Canada. 

A new, ground-breaking product called Oticon Intent™ takes the benefits of treating hearing loss a step further,

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The tech products you shouldn’t buy or gift — even on Black Friday

The tech products you shouldn’t buy or gift — even on Black Friday

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During this Black Friday week, you’ll see pitches to BUY THIS AMAZING STUFF.

While experts may recommend the best products for everyone, we are all unique. A product that I love might be one that you hate.

So my colleagues and I are sharing five tech (-ish) purchases that we regretted. It’s a subjective guide to products you should not buy.

They include a keyboard tray that broke three times, a pair of wireless headphones that never fit right and pet technology that failed to help a dog “speak” to its human friend.

Our regrets show that even journalists who question everything can be swayed by what’s popular or what can seem too good to be

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‘The challenges are real’: TUC taskforce to examine AI threat to workers’ rights | Artificial intelligence (AI)

‘The challenges are real’: TUC taskforce to examine AI threat to workers’ rights | Artificial intelligence (AI)

“We can’t let existential risks blind us to the challenges we face today,” says Gina Neff, a tech expert at the University of Cambridge and co-chair of a new TUC taskforce on artificial intelligence in the workplace. “Those challenges are real, and they’re faced by all of us.”

Rishi Sunak is hosting a global AI safety summit in November, amid hair-raising concerns raised by tech gurus – some of whom have even warned the technology could destroy humanity.

Sunak, a Stanford graduate, is known at Westminster as a wannabe West Coast tech bro, with his branded hoodies and Palm Angels sliders, and has picked up on the “existential” threats highlighted by some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley.

Neff welcomes the prime minister’s decision to call the summit. But today, without a hoodie in sight, she has come together with two fellow female tech experts – Dee Masters,

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