Friend of a Fiend?

Brian from softball sends you a friend request. He’s an all around good guy—punctual, complimentary, clean, the works! Go ahead and accept him. WAIT. Don’t do it. That is, don’t do it unless he’s been put to the test. IBM Patent No. 8,706,648 goes beyond Brian to calculate the digital or social media risk his friends pose to your personal Internet security. Just like in real life, some of your friends run with a bad crowd. Thankfully, In the cyber world, now something can protect you from such hijinks. (But if his friends start a big ruckus in the stands, you’re still on your own.) Discover more innovations from 22 record years →

9 years ago

What do chocolate, banks, wine, TV, hotels, and zoos have in common? Change. It’s no secret that the world is in the midst of remarkable transformation, but we may not always be able to see it. Even the most ordinary things around us aren’t so ordinary anymore. It’s all due to a surge in intelligence from data and the ability to connect things like never before through social, mobile and cloud technologies.  Join us as we explore this wondrous moment of transformation to understand how the world is made today.

10 years ago