The 2018 global storage merger‑and‑acquisition market shrank to just 36 deals—far below the 2006 peak of 104—highlighting a slowdown driven by industry maturity, scarce disruptive startups, and modest transaction values despite a history of multi‑billion‑dollar deals.
The podcast examines AI’s rapid integration into entertainment, security and personalization, highlighting its use in automated video editing, facial-recognition tagging of celebrities and non-celebrities, while debating ethical concerns such as echo-chambers, emotional nuance, and the technology’s transformative yet limited role across industries.
At APOStech 2018, iQIYI’s CTO explained how AI technologies such as 8K VR streaming, adaptive bitrate, super‑resolution, and intelligent casting are reshaping content creation, distribution, and monetization, boosting user experience and predictive accuracy across the Chinese entertainment ecosystem.
The article examines the technical, economic, and security challenges of deploying instant‑messaging services as decentralized applications on public blockchains, argues that a dedicated communication‑focused blockchain is more suitable, categorizes existing blockchain IM projects, and outlines why platform‑level communication requires a specialized chain.
The article examines why front‑end developers often hit a career ceiling due to low entry barriers and limited backend knowledge, and outlines practical solutions and five distinct career routes—including senior front‑end, full‑stack, management, product, and entrepreneurship—to help break through that ceiling.
This article uses a simple bedtime story about a magical village and a wooden sword to explain the core concepts of blockchain—decentralized, distributed ledgers maintained by all participants, tracking the full history of assets—to both children and adults.
This article reviews the evolution of blockchain from Bitcoin's inception to its current role in securing data flow, explores business models, IoT integration, insurance use cases, and emerging security threats, while highlighting expert insights from the 2018 Think in Cloud conference.
This article explores how algorithms, particularly AI and genetic algorithms, are applied across diverse fields such as advertising, social issue resolution, drug discovery, and public welfare, highlighting their transformative impact on technology and society.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of augmented reality (AR) technology, explaining its fundamentals, differentiating it from VR, MR, CR, SR, and ER, and exploring its market trends, diverse industry applications—from marketing and social interactions to gaming, cultural tourism, and its connection with AI.
This article provides a comprehensive introduction to blockchain technology, covering its origins, development milestones, formal definition, structural classifications, key characteristics such as decentralization and immutability, as well as security mechanisms and current limitations, supported by references and illustrative diagrams.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns that as automation expands, many tech jobs will no longer require heavy programming, emphasizing the growing demand for lightweight computer skills, IT support roles, and continuous training to keep the workforce adaptable.
The article argues that while mainstream media focuses on volatile crypto prices, the true breakthrough of blockchain lies in its decentralized, cryptographic architecture that can reshape governance, finance, and many complex systems, offering a vision far beyond speculative trading.
The talk explains how the “City Brain” concept uses big‑data and AI to transform urban infrastructure, turning every vehicle and citizen action into valuable data that can reduce traffic, improve emergency response, and reshape cities into smarter, more efficient ecosystems.
The article explores Bill Gates' optimism, Kevin Kelly's predictions, and Gartner's outlook, then outlines four major AI trends: mass commercial adoption, expert-level cognition via deep learning, AI as purchasable smart services, and disruptive impacts on labor‑intensive industries reshaping the global economy.
This article presents a curated list of Facebook’s most popular open‑source projects, ordered by GitHub star count, covering a wide range of technologies from front‑end libraries like React to big‑data engines such as Presto, providing concise descriptions and links for each.
This article explains the origins and development of artificial intelligence, clarifies the relationships and distinctions among AI, machine learning, and deep learning, and uses several illustrative diagrams to help readers quickly grasp how these three hot AI technologies are connected and differ from each other.
WordPress announced it will abandon React after its founder cited Facebook’s patent‑related licensing restrictions, sparking industry debate as the platform, which heavily relies on React for projects like Calypso and Gutenberg, seeks new front‑end technologies.
This article presents a comprehensive collection of technical knowledge maps compiled over years, covering architecture, Java, microservices, consistency, big data, cloud computing, mobile development, front‑end, back‑end, DevOps, and more, aiming to help engineers and architects master essential skills and best practices.
This article compiles the most comprehensive list of consumer‑focused artificial‑intelligence products, covering personal assistants, work tools, social apps, health monitors, finance helpers, travel aids, IoT devices, and more, offering readers a clear overview of the diverse AI solutions currently available on the market.
This article revisits earlier mistakes in a Nimble Storage analysis, provides corrected specifications for the CS series, outlines HPE's evolving cloud computing strategy, and shares two free resources for readers interested in cloud architecture and Amazon cloud services.
The article reviews Alipay's 2017 AR‑driven marketing campaign, surveys the rapid adoption of AR/VR/MR by major e‑commerce platforms, and explains the technical foundations and distinctions of vision‑based, marker‑less, and location‑based augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality systems.
The article explores the nuanced relationship between technology, business, and tools, arguing that true productivity gains arise from collaborative integration rather than treating technology solely as a business instrument, illustrated through philosophical definitions and analogical stories.
In a candid internal interview, former Tencent CTO Tony shares his perspectives on product development, honest communication, team growth, work‑life balance, and the evolving tech landscape, offering practical insights for leaders and engineers seeking to foster innovation and genuine collaboration.
In his 2016 Future Forum keynote, Alibaba CTO Wang Jian likens the internet, data, and computing to fire, the discovery of new continents, and the steam engine, arguing they are transformative forces that reshape humanity, industry, and scientific progress.
This article reveals how many sci‑fi films showcase actual code snippets—ranging from C++ and assembly to HTML and Lua—sourced from blogs, manuals, and open‑source projects, offering a fascinating glimpse into the authentic programming behind cinematic tech scenes.
In an exclusive Harvard Business Review interview, Tencent’s CEO Ma Huateng explains how strategic wisdom, relentless execution, a strong crisis sense, and a focus on connectivity and content have propelled Tencent from a modest start to a global tech powerhouse, offering valuable lessons on leadership, product innovation, and ecosystem building.
In a fast‑changing tech landscape, cultivating love and curiosity for technology, understanding comfort, learning, and panic zones, and following a five‑step process—from grasping purpose and advantages to hands‑on practice and sharing insights—enables rapid and effective mastery of new tools.
Meituan’s rapid O2O expansion hinges on a disciplined, data‑driven ground‑sales force that first conquers suburban districts before encircling city centers, leveraging aggressive incentives, real‑time IT tools, and strategic partnerships to wrest market share from rivals like Dianping while building a comprehensive ecosystem.
