Downtime
July 2017
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You don’t get to 500 million friends without steak and a few enemies
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Robocop splashed across Downtime
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Umbrella sharing start-up loses all its umbrellas
- Networking Editor 12 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Neural networks and guinea pigs: A credible use case for AI is finally here
- 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 ...