Dive Brief:

• Gartner’s 2015 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report includes several changes from the last year involving how various technologies are viewed by the firm's analysts.

• Autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things (IoT) top this year’s report.

• Big data has dropped from the list entirely.

Dive Insight:

Gartner’s annual Hype Cycle report tracks how technologies mature over their lifetime.

Autonomous vehicles, such as Google's self-driving car and Apple's unofficial Project Titan, advanced in the report this year, as did IoT, while Big Data disappeared from the report altogether. Gartner also sees a growing momentum in connected-home solutions, the report said.