In 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov played a highly publicized match against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer built to take down the world’s best players. Kasparov won the match 4-2, writing ...

Beckhoff explains how PC-based control reduces complexity and boosts performance in modern automation systems.

Amazon is reportedly planning to replace human workers with AI-powered robots to cut costs and boost efficiency. Internal documents suggest the company could avoid hiring around 6,00,000 US workers by ...

From MQTT and HMIs to digital twins, IoT app connectivity and the EdgeX Foundry, the concept of decoupling software from hardware is quickly moving to the forefront of automation technology ...

If you’ve used a computer, it’s almost certain you have used Microsoft Word. The aptly named word processor is one of the most influential computer programs in history. From schools to businesses, ...

It has been 24 years since Microsoft first released Word, and four years since the program’s last major upgrade. How much more can Microsoft do to tweak its venerable word processor? Surprisingly, ...

An Oracle database server running on a Windows machine can manipulate COM Automation server objects from PL/SQL or Java stored in a database. To access a COM Automation server, a client application ...