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The top technologies with the biggest promise for 2017

The top technologies with the biggest promise for 2017 1) A new era in diabetes care In 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the world’s first artificial pancreas . The device monitors blood sugar and supplies insulin automatically. It basically replicates what a healthy version of the organ does on its own; and it enables diabetes patients to live an easier life in a sustainable way. It is the biggest step towards a new are in diabetes management in years The breakthrough happened years after the #wearenotwaiting movement started to campaign for the introduction of such artificial pancreas on the market. One of the leading figures of the movement,  Dana Lewis also told me how an artificial pancreas eases everyday life . In 2017, this new way of diabetes management will spread around; and it will become a life-changing milestone in many patients’ lives when they first start to use the device. The development of diabetes care does not end there. Google ...
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WhatsApp issued second-largest GDPR fine of €225m

  WhatsApp has been fined €225m (£193m) by Ireland's data watchdog for breaching privacy regulations. It is the largest fine ever from the Irish Data Protection Commission, and the second-highest under EU GDPR rules. Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, has its EU headquarters is in Ireland, and the Irish regulator is the lead authority for the tech giant in Europe. WhatsApp said it disagrees with the decision, and the severity of the fine, and plans to appeal. The fine relates to an investigation which began in 2018, about whether WhatsApp had been transparent enough about how it handles information. The issues involved were highly technical, including whether WhatsApp supplied enough information to users about how their data was processed and if its privacy policies were clear enough. Those policies have since been updated several times. "WhatsApp is committed to providing a secure and private service," a company spokesperson said. "We have worked to ensure the informati...
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App Store Can Not Ban Alternative Payments, Judge Rules in Epic vs Apple

  Apple can not stop developers from offering third party payments that avoid the fees that it charges for in-app purchases, according to the ruling of the judge in the Epic vs Apple case that has been delivered after several months of deliberations. Apple can not stop developers from including external links that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms in addition to in-app purchasing, and developers can also communicate with customers through points of contact obtained voluntarily from customers through account registration. Last year, Epic updated the Fortnite add with its own in-app payment system, bypassing Apple, and it was then removed from the App Store for violating its policies. This led to the antitrust lawsuit from Epic. A similar case is also set to take place against  Google . According to the  injunction  uploaded by  The Verge , the court did not find Apple to be a monopolist, and as noted in  Protocol , Apple has emerged from th...
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