Are you suffering from technology exhaustion? In today’s manufacturing ecosystem, it’s a common ailment. Symptoms include eye rolls and deep sighs at the mention of transformational new tech. I must ...

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Alex Hanna and Emily Bender, coauthors of "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want," say current AI systems aren't democratizing creativity and labor, but rather ...

The first half of 2026 has been a reality check for the tech industry. After two years defined by the rush to build, fund and ...

The phrase “just because we can doesn’t mean we should” applies at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the potential of so many new products and ...

Marketing new technologies often involves over-promising and under-delivering. Hype is the word, as Frankie Valli didn’t sing. Expectations of product launch dates, of performance, of cost, and of ...

Tech stocks are flying higher seemingly every day, and the market is brimming with hype over artificial intelligence. It's leading some analysts to say the stocks notching the biggest gains are way ...

What’s the difference between true opportunity and hype? Answering that question correctly is the difference between success and failure in the tech industry. And it’s a far more difficult question ...

This image of the “Hype Cycle” for consumer devices in 2014 from Gartner is from a presentation on the prospects and status of various kinds of technology. Credit: Gartner, Inc. This week's Digital ...