Sentences with phrase «technology as a threat»

«We once saw technology as a threat to malls», says Steven M. Lowy, Co-CEO of Westfield Corp, «but now we see it has an enhancement.

Far from seeing technology as a threat, much of the education sector is gleefully embracing the power of the digital era.

I thought you were paying a compliment to people who see technology as a threat and not a tool.

Abelson emphasized that change is awkward, and «in the next millennium the crisis will get worse, but real estate agents should not view technology as a threat, rather as an opportunity.»

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As 2017 comes to a close, it's more clear than ever that Tencent is a silent threat to American technology giants.

But self - learning machines are concerning enough to draw the attention of big thinkers like Musk — he referred to AI as «our biggest existential threat» — as well as Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, with whom Musk co-authored a letter about the technology's dangers.

A Harvey Nash / KPMG survey of 4,500 CIOs and technology leaders from around the globe found that insider threats are perceived as the most rapidly growing security risk to companies.

The Treasury cited Chinese companies like Huawei as a competitive threat in the development of the next generation of wireless network technology.

This is deadly and although technologies such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto attempt to address the threat of smartphone use while driving, they're far from perfect themselves.

On Wednesday, 150 technology companies — including giants such as Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft — sent Wheeler a letter decrying his ideas, saying they represent a «grave threat to the Internet:»

Small business owners fingered social networks as biggest threat to information technology security in 2010, according to a new report.

Those worried about potential security threats posed by Chinese investments in sensitive areas (such as high - tech, communications, and energy) point to Beijing's declared strategy of «going out» to gain technology and resource security as grounds for scrutinizing Chinese investments.

The U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre, the technology wing of the Government Communications Headquarters, highlighted cryptojacking as a «significant» concern in its latest «cyber threat to UK business» report.

As the study chart below shows (click to enlarge), very few (only about 6 %) of the SMB's surveyed see automation technology, including A.I., as a threat to their business today or in the next 5 yearAs the study chart below shows (click to enlarge), very few (only about 6 %) of the SMB's surveyed see automation technology, including A.I., as a threat to their business today or in the next 5 yearas a threat to their business today or in the next 5 years.

More than 100 hundred years after that, though computers had replaced knitting machines as the latest threat to jobs, the fear of technology's impact on employment was the same.

• The character and integrity of those with whom you are doing business • Changing technology as it impacts industries (including the banking industry) • Future changes in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare resources

At present, banks are visibly keen to keep pace with blockchain's latest developments in a bid to improve their overall efficiency and minimise costs, as well as to push back against the growing threat from FinTech firms eager to capitalise on the technology.

Last week, Bank of America's (BOA) released their SEC annual report that also contained a mention of cryptocurrencies as a threat to their business, with the risk of competition described in very similar terms: «the widespread adoption of new technologies, including internet services, cryptocurrencies and payment systems, could require substantial expenditures to modify or adapt our existing products and services.»

We work with a network of teachers who use our framework and guidelines to ensure a consistent and hiqh quality educational experience that can deliver the needed knowledge in your business or corporation to understand the threats and opportunities as well as challenges and paths to grasping this complex and hard - to - grasp technology and theory we call Blockchain.

DGB is focused on building state - of - the - art and sophisticated blockchain technology for security applications as cyber threats continue to increase around the world.

Over the coming weeks we will do a focused analysis of hybrid blockchain technology as part of a «Threat Analysis» series.

As technology gets more sophisticated and ingrained in our work and personal lives, so too does the threat of cyber security breaches, which in turn compromises our intellectual property.

«After decades of doubting China's innovation potential, the United States now fears the rapid pace of China's technological catchup, and sees Chinese technology as a major (perhaps even existential) threat to US economic competitiveness,» Matt Sheehan, a fellow at the Paulson Institute, wrote in a blog post last month.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

As the power of technology grows, its earlier promise seems to many to be turning into a threat.

According to the pessimists, science, industry, and bureaucracy — as well as technology — illustrate this threat to humanity.

But as we survey the world situation today, the general feeling is that along with many benefits, many of the promises of technology stand betrayed and there is evidence of a lot of technology having become instruments of exploitation of peoples, destruction of cultures and dehumanization of persons and pose threat of destruction not only to the whole humanity through nuclear war but also to the whole community of life on the earth through the destruction of its ecological basis.

Supporters of genetically modified foods see Cargill's non-GMO moves as a threat to GMO technology and its billion dollar industry.

Gene drive technology poses serious and potentially irreversible threats to biodiversity, as well as national sovereignty, peace, and food security.This week, international conservation and environmental leaders are calling on governments at the 2016 UN Convention on Biodiversity to establish a moratorium on the controversial genetic extinction... more

Just as the technology it aims to create, the achievement of invisibility (or something close to it) will result in more elusive and obscure threats and challenges to states by further reducing military transparency.

NITDA ISSUES GUIDANCE ON COMBATING CYBER SECURITY THREATS The management of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) would like to bring to the attention of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), other government establishments, the organised private sector and the general public of potential cyber-attacks likely to be experienced this year as well -LSB-...]

Commandant of the Army War College, Major General John Enenche while noting that participants are made up of 51 army officers, 1 Naval officer, 1 airforce officer and 1 officer from the Federal Road Safety Commission, stated that the contemporary security environment in Nigeria and the world in present day, can be aptly referred to as complex, due to the nature of threats and advancement in technology.

Advances in motion - capture technology hold enormous potential as a tool for analyzing surveillance video for possible security threats

One need only think of all the diseases that need curing, the energy sources that need finding and refining, the as - yet - undiscovered technologies needed to protect the U.S. and its allies against manifold threats to its national security.

«In the face of rapidly expanding energy demand and the increasingly urgent threat of climate change, we are continuing to respond to the energy system as it evolves rather than actively managing its transformation,» Didier Houssin, IEA's director of sustainable energy policy and technology, said yesterday at the report's launch.

In fact, it notes, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have rated China's «aggressive and wide - ranging espionage as the leading threat to U.S. technology.»

The Institute plays a key role as the lead military medical research laboratory for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

Instead of using advanced (and relatively untested) technology to attempt to repel sharks or nondiscriminatory nets that kill other threatened sea life as bycatch, researchers have simply caught sharks and moved them to where they would not pose a threat to swimmers.

Mitnick may have stolen the headlines, but the actions against Erlich and Helsingius have sparked far more discussion on the Internet because they arise from a piece of technology called an anonymous remailer, which companies and governnents see as a growing threat.

Plant breeders have generally been supportive of this technology, not seeing the genetic modification as a threat to crossbreeding for combating climate change.»

JAPAN's position as a technological leader is under threat, say the authors of the country's latest White Paper on Science and Technology.

One way to tease out the subtler possible impacts of emerging technologies is to think of risk as a threat to something of value — an idea that's embedded in the somewhat new concept of Risk Innovation.

But focusing on such questions can mask much more subtle dangers inherent in emerging technologies, threats that aren't as amenable to technological fixes, and that we all too easily overlook.

What emerges when risk is approached as a threat to value is a much richer way of thinking about how emerging technologies might affect people, communities and organizations, and how they can be developed responsibly.

From 2008 - 2011, he served as Deputy Administrator of a US government funded threat assessment program focused on advanced aerospace technology.

The Committee has been investigating the use of GM insect technologies to fight infectious disease and to control agricultural pests as the technology now exists to render insects unable to transmit diseases, and to reduce insect populations to minimise their threat to animals and crops.

Becoming king also bestows upon the king the powers of the Black Panther, though his threats aren't physical so much as political, having to deal with not only external forces who want to use Wakanda's stash of the worlds hardest and most powerful metal, vibranium, to their advantage, but also within Wakanda, among those who feel that they have a responsibility to share their advancement with the world to help those who desperately need its harnessed powers to heal, or, more extreme, to use their secretive wealth in resources and weapons technology to right centuries of wrongs for people of African descent around the world through a revolution.

Director José Padilha took the stage after that footage to discuss his new movie, including some talk about the future threat of drones and robotics technology used in war and law enforcement, as he described a remake that may have much less to do with the original than we had expected.

The advance of technology is often seen as a threat to the overall labor market, but Deming's study could calm fears that computers are coming to replace us all.