3 Things in Technology to look out for in 2016

<p>The last decade has been the most revolutionary in terms of technological advances&period; We have seen mobile gaming evolve from <em>Snake<&sol;em> to App releases of popular console games such as <em>GTA San Andreas<&sol;em> and <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Broken&lowbar;Sword&colon;&lowbar;The&lowbar;Shadow&lowbar;of&lowbar;the&lowbar;Templars&lowbar;&percnt;E2&percnt;80&percnt;93&lowbar;Director&percnt;27s&lowbar;Cut" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Broken Sword &&num;8211&semi; The Shadow of the Templars<&sol;a><&sol;em>&period; Manufacturers show no signs of slowing down in terms of innovation&comma; making technology evolve faster than ever before&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s have a look at some exciting new projects that all tech enthusiasts need to watch out for&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>HTML 6&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04130500&sol;HTML&lowbar;logo&period;png"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-92747 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04130500&sol;HTML&lowbar;logo&period;png" alt&equals;"HTML&lowbar;logo" width&equals;"270" height&equals;"298" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>HTML 5 was implemented at the end of 2014&period; This is the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;w3schools&period;com&sol;html&sol;html5&lowbar;intro&period;asp" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">5th revision of the markup language <&sol;a>since it&&num;8217&semi;s introduction in 1993&period; While there is no official confirmation of a HTML 6 release&comma; there are several different suggestions and theories on how it could be improved&semi; for example&comma; HTML 5 gave programmers additional tags to work with but developers still feel that there is a void within HTML 5 in this area&comma; and that it could be adapted to give much more freedom to programmers who wants to use it when coding&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was announced after the release of HTML 5 that the revisions would no longer be numbered and all versions would simply be referred to as HTML&period; So technically we won&&num;8217&semi;t see anything named HTML 6&comma; but we may see a lot of neat improvements made to HTML&comma; that could take website coding to the next level&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Contactless payments<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;92748" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-92748" style&equals;"width&colon; 695px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04130453&sol;Mobile&lowbar;payment&lowbar;01&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-92748 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04130453&sol;Mobile&lowbar;payment&lowbar;01&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Mobile&lowbar;payment&lowbar;01" width&equals;"695" height&equals;"426" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-92748" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Image originally taken by Gary Stevens of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;hostingcanada&period;org&sol;">HostingCanada&period;org<&sol;a> on assignment for Telnor in Fornebu&comma; Norway&period; Photo demonstrating the use of an early NFC payment terminal&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>With the release of <em><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;apple&period;com&sol;uk&sol;apple-pay&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Apple Pay<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; contactless payments have suddenly become more widely used&period; The maximum transaction amount has been upped to £30 from £20&comma; in the UK&comma; after a soaring number of customers started using the contactless mobile devices instead of cards to pay for their items&period; This method looks to eliminate some fraudulent activity and even heart beat monitors have been mentioned as a possible method for identification and security&comma; making it considerably more difficult to steal your hard earned cash&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new iPhone models&comma; from <em>Iphone 6<&sol;em> and up&comma; allows users to use their <em>Apple Pay<&sol;em> account by verifying their identity using the fingerprint scanner on the home button&period; Developers for <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;wire19&period;com&sol;how-mobile-payment-is-changing-the-game-in-world-of-ecommerce&sol;">e-commerce business<&sol;a> are working on ways to build on this progress by looking at other ways users can be identified&period; There are many small flaws with the <em>Apple Pay<&sol;em> system however&comma; such as the lack of compliance across all debit and credit card providers&period; <em>Apple pay<&sol;em> has for the time being reignited the excitement around contactless mobile based payment technology&period; Apple has a real opportunity to capitalize on this&comma; optimize it and create more ground-breaking technology for their future mobile devices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Other companies have realized the potential of contactless <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;coral&period;co&period;uk&sol;coral-connect" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">and digital payment systems as well<&sol;a>&period; For example&comma; Coral has introduced their Connect service&period; This allows users to collect their winnings from their website or App directly from the store&comma; rather than transferring the funds to the user&&num;8217&semi;s bank account&period; Any winnings in store can be kept in your account and used for online games or betting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>New AMD Processors<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-92749 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04130441&sol;KL&lowbar;AMD&lowbar;Athlon&lowbar;64&lowbar;X2&lowbar;Brisbane-1024x1019&period;jpg" alt&equals;"KL&lowbar;AMD&lowbar;Athlon&lowbar;64&lowbar;X2&lowbar;Brisbane" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"617" &sol;>AMD&&num;8217&semi;s Chief Executive Officer&comma; Rory Read announced that the company would be targeting product launches in the first quarter of 2016&period; AMD is working on the <em>K12<&sol;em> and sister <em>X68 CPU<&sol;em> processors and are confident of their early release next year&period; The now scrapped&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;extremetech&period;com&sol;computing&sol;205078-amds-project-skybridge-the-armx86-hybrid-core-is-officially-dead" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer"><em>Project Skybridge&comma;<&sol;em><&sol;a> was the first processor from AMD to support Android OS&period; Maybe this suggests that the company is looking to expand to the mobile market&period; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;intel&period;co&period;uk&sol;content&sol;www&sol;uk&sol;en&sol;smartphones&sol;smartphones&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Rival Company Intel <&sol;a>already has a foot in the door having released their own range of smartphones&comma; so AMD shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t overlook this market&comma; as it is a market on a never-ending quest for expansion&period; The percentage of online mobile traffic was reported to be all the way up to 60&percnt;&comma; during 2014 and shows no sign of coming to a halt&period; This would be an excellent time for AMD to be opportunistic and tap into the huge labyrinth&comma; that is the mobile market&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What new tech are you most excited for in 2016&quest; Did we miss any big items&quest; Let us know what you think in the comment section&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;