World’s smallest computer from IBM. /Photo via IBM
A list of leading futuristic technologies were awarded at the fourth China International Big Data Expo on Saturday in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province. Standing out from 526 candidates across the world, the 11 awarded technologies are representations of big data concepts.
Tencent: AI big data platform for financial security
Companies in financial regulation sectors can take advantage of this platform to solve their incapability in terms of data processing, algorithm, and computing when dealing with companies data. They can also block illegal money transferring online at an early stage by analyzing the data model.
IBM: World’s smallest computer
Early this year, IBM launched a microscopic device which is about one square millimeter large – tinier than a grain of salt. Though it may be hard to believe, this one is said to be a game-changer in anti-fraud block-chain applications.
Equipped with several hundred thousand transistors, memory chip and a photoelectric detector, the device that costs less than 10 cents to manufacture can monitor, analyze and act on data. When embedded in products, or any other objects, it will make the whole manufacturing-circulation-purchase process transparent, leaving no shadow for counterfeits.
