RiverTrail Technology Blog

We are right in the thick of summer vacation season. Over the next few weeks, your office is likely going to look a little sparse. Managers are taking well-deserved time off, key decision-makers are heading out of town, and daily operations are being left in the hands of smaller, temporary skeleton crews.

It’s a great time for your team to recharge, but it is also a prime operational window for cybercriminals. Scammers don't take summer vacations. In fact, they look forward to this time of year because they know the normal checks and balances of a local office are temporarily compromised.

AI is, undoubtedly, an incredibly powerful tool… there’s a reason so many of us now turn to it for so many purposes. Unfortunately, its power necessitates an equally incredible amount of energy. Let’s spend a few moments putting this need into perspective and examining what it means for us.

To paraphrase the titular character’s philosophy from the 1986 dramedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, technology moves pretty fast… if you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you might miss it.

We’ve already seen technology take major strides this year, with many innovations offering utility in business settings. Let’s discuss five, and how they could impact the technology we use in the future.

Bluetooth was named after King Harald Bluetooth Gormsson, a 10th-century monarch who famously united the disparate tribes of Scandinavia. Today, that namesake technology performs a similar feat, uniting our laptops, phones, and peripherals into a seamless ecosystem.

But as the saying goes, walls have ears, and in the case of a new vulnerability, your headphones might, too.