CATEGORY |
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NOMINEE 1 |
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NOMINEE 2 |
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NOMINEE 3 |
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WINNER |
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Wearables |
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Fitbit Versa Smartwatch |
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Fitbit Charge 3 |
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Apple Watch Series 4 |
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Apple |
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Smart Home |
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Amazon Ring Video Doorbell |
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TP-Link’s Kasa Cameras |
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Nest: Connect, Detect, and Nest Hello (doorbell) |
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Amazon Ring Video Doorbell |
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Best Voice Assistant Device |
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Samsung Bixby: Galaxy Home Speaker |
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Amazon Alexa 60k skills and all new hardware |
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Google Home: Hub and other screen device,partners |
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Amazon |
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Sharing/Gig Economy |
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Amazon Flex: Use your car to deliver packages |
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Caviar: Food Delivery from anywhere by regular people |
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Real Real: Sell Your designer stuff on consignment across the world |
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Amazon |
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Streaming Video Subscription Service |
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HBO: Sharp Objects, Barry, Succession, Westworld II |
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Amazon Prime: Homecoming, Jack Ryan |
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Netflix: Bandersnatch, Birdbox, & Roma |
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Netflix |
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Worst Cybersecurity(Biggest Hack) |
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India’s AADHAAR system 1.1 billion people exposed |
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Exactis Ad tracking platform. 340 mm people exposed |
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Under Armour 150 million people exposed |
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AADHAAR |
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Most Significant Hacks |
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Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica disclosure 87 million exposed | altered course of 2016 US Presidential Election |
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Strava’s Military Base Leak. No individuals exposed, but myriad countries experienced security leaks as the locations of their military facilities were unwittingly exposed. |
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My Heritage leak: Personal information, including passwords were taken and it remains unclear if users’s genetic information and/or medical histories were exposed. |
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Facebook: Cambridge Analytica |
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Most Significant Gaming Platform |
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Microsoft: XBox One |
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Nintendo: Switch |
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SONY: Playstation 4 |
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SONY – Access to both popular and exclusive titles: Red Dead Redemption Spider Man God of War Assassin’s Creed Odyssey |
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Most *Impactful* Video Game of the year |
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Epic Games for Fortnite |
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Rockstar for Red Dead Redemption 2 |
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SONY Interactive Entertainment for Spider Man |
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Epic Games for Fortnite |
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AR & VR |
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Playstation VR: Affordable VR on an established platform |
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Facebook: Oculus GO: Affordable device that gets more people into VR |
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HTC Vive Pro |
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Playstation VR: Affordable VR on an established platform |
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Best New Innovation – Science (in the lab) |
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Scientists Have Created A Star Trek-Like Plane That Flies Using ‘Ion Thrusters’ And No Fuel |
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Scientists Developed a Way to Filter Lead Out of Water With Fruit Peels |
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Man paralysed from waist down makes history by walking again using mind-controlled implant to power his legs |
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Man paralysed from waist down makes history by walking again using mind-controlled implant to power his legs |
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Best Use of Social Media |
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Instagram: The World Record Egg |
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European Union: The GDPR |
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Facebook: The,Algorithmic Update |
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European Union: The GDPR |
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Worst Technology Fail |
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Facebook: Unsecure Unethical Unworthy |
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Google Project Dragonfly: Development of a new, restricted, Chinese version of Google for renewed access to the Chinese market |
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Google Project Maven: Applying Google’s expertise to a DARPA AI autonomous drone capable of deadly strikes against enemies of the United States |
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Facebook: Unsecure Unethical Unworthy |
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Most Weird/ Creepy Technology Phenomenon |
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Instagram: The World Record Egg |
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Deep Fakes via products like Fake App |
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Clearing Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez with foot fetishists, and a site called Wikifeet |
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Deep Fakes via products like Fake App |
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