Downtime

July 2017

• You don’t get to 500 million friends without steak and a few enemies

  Ryan Priest - Community Member 26 Jul 2017

Some surprisingly vapid musings on the future of artificial intelligence (AI), live streamed by Mark Zuckerberg whilst smoking some brisket in his back garden, have been brushed aside by Elon Musk, ...

• Robocop splashed across Downtime

  Ryan Priest - Community Member 19 Jul 2017

An office building in Washington DC has lost its Knightscope K5 security robot after it obliviously face planted into the premises’ water fountain centrepiece. It’s the most ambitious television ...

• Umbrella sharing start-up loses all its umbrellas

  Alex Scroxton - Security Editor 12 Jul 2017

To Shenzhen, China, where tech entrepreneur Zhao Shuping has had cold water poured on his business after his sharing economy start-up Sharing E Umbrella rented 300,000 umbrellas to damp locals, and ...

• Neural networks and guinea pigs: A credible use case for AI is finally here

  Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 06 Jul 2017

Despite the conjecture spouted about the usefulness of artificial intelligence (AI), what’s been sorely lacking (as far as Downtime is concerned) is that one killer use case that really captures ...