The World Health Organization just declared a global pandemic. A pandemic is an epidemic (a sudden increase in the number of cases of a disease) that’s spread over several countries or continents. COVID-19 is now on every continent (except Antarctica) in multiple countries. This is no longer a China problem, this is a global problem in over 150 countries and counting, and it's going from bad to worse.

Telefónica, MediaPro, and Barcelona’s metropolitan transport agency TMB have teamed up to use 5G and augmented reality in a practical way for tourism, equipping a bus with a translucent display that can highlight key places as they appear in real life.

Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Inselspital Bern have developed a method that can predict the circulatory failure of patients in intensive care units with high reliability. Medical staff can thus intervene earlier. The approach is based on the evaluation of extensive patient data using machine learning methods.

Nils Urbach, Professor for Business Informatics and Strategic IT Management at the University of Bayreuth, Peter Hofmann, University of Bayreuth and Dominik Protschky, University of Bayreuth bet that in five years' time, anchoring in the company will be one of the biggest challenges in the successful application of artificial intelligence.

The end of Windows 7 support has hit health care extra hard, leaving several machines vulnerable.

Quantum computers are still science fiction. But quantum computing power as a service from the cloud could be available as early as 2022. Read how you should prepare your business for both disruptive and transformative technology.

The digitalization of purchasing is still in its infancy in many companies. A few basic steps will help to master the seemingly Herculean task.

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 “Terminator 2“-style robots.

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 dematerializing physical objects, which makes their processes slow, cumbersome and expensive.

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.