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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18

  Bosch teams up with Singapore Polytechnic in IoT training push

  Bosch and Singapore Polytechnic have set up two learning labs to train students on the use of the internet of things in advanced manufacturing

• July 05, 2018 05 Jul'18

  UK joins forces with France on artificial intelligence and data

  The UK and France will share expertise on AI and research, work together to improve digital services and collaborate to develop tech talent

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Southeast Asia playbook

  Alibaba Cloud is working closely with local customers in joint innovation projects, and has started to launch new services for Chinese and international customers simultaneously to narrow the service gap

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  Government welcomes Lords AI report, vaunts industrial strategy

  The government has published its official, supportive response to the House of Lords select committee report on artificial intelligence, published earlier this year

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  New deals bolster IBM’s European cloud business

  IBM has signed up a number of new customers for its European cloud, focusing on the platform and software services in the IBM public cloud

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Department for Work and Pensions uses artificial intelligence to crack down on benefits fraud

  DWP has made several digital strides, including developing AI to track organised benefits fraud, moved more than 100 digital products to “new hosting arrangements” and made savings on technology contracts, according to its annual report

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Singapore’s Fullerton Health gears up for the cloud

  Private healthcare service provider Fullerton Health is moving business applications to Microsoft’s cloud services before rolling out data analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance operations and patient care

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Formula One switches from on-premise to machine learning on AWS

  Formula One plans to use advanced analytics to improve the data it can show to motor racing fans

• June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18

  Government must challenge popular smart city misconceptions

  A report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities says many people feel alienated by the concept, and calls on the government to challenge some popular misconceptions

• June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18

  HSBC puts humanoid in New York branch

  HSBC has put its first humanoid member of staff into a branch role in New York City

• June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18

  AI and other tech key to post-Brexit success, says Matt Hancock

  Digital secretary Matt Hancock highlights the importance of emerging technologies to the future of the UK at the opening of London’s cyber security innovation centre

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  High-Tech Bridge bets on machine learning capabilities

  Machine learning has a great potential to drive the automation of some security tasks to free up information security professionals to do more strategic work, says High-Tech Bridge founder

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  Malaysia makes good progress in building analytics talent

  The country’s talent development and funding schemes have brought the benefits of big data to many organisations, but the quality and volume of its analytics talent can be improved

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Projects receive funding to help digitise manufacturing

  Following recommendations from the Industrial Digitisation review, the EPSRC is funding AI and process automation projects

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Nordic and Baltic states agree on joint approach to AI

  The governments of the Nordic and Baltic region want to work closer together to further increase the status of artificial intelligence in business and society

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  How Australia is gearing up for 5G

  From trialling 5G networks at the recent Commonwealth Games to flying drones in surf sport lifesaving, Australia is becoming a test bed for 5G services with its dense cities and wide-open spaces

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  CDO interview: Andrei Belevtsev, Gazprom Neft

  Russian oil giant will harness the latest technologies right across its business, says chief digital officer

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Nine out of 10 enterprises will use robotic process automation by 2020

  Robotic process automation take-up expected to reach 92% of European enterprises within two years, finds ISG survey

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Chief data officers go to summer school

  Authors of the “Chief data officer’s playbook”, Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, are running a summer school, supported by data governance software supplier Collibra

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Young generation tempted by Amazon bank-like services

  Tech firms offering banking services will be inevitable in the future as more than half of young people are tempted by such a prospect

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Bank uses AI to select job candidates

  Singapore’s DBS Bank is using artificial intelligence to automate parts of its recruitment process

• June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18

  DeepMind Health must be transparent to gain public trust, review finds

  Independent review of DeepMind Health says the company should provide more clarity on data and business plans, while legal audit finds its controversial data-sharing deal with Royal Free is lawful

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Government Geospatial Commission opens up OS MasterMap data

  The Geospatial Commission, announced by chancellor Philip Hammond in his 2017 Autumn Budget, has opened up some Ordnance Survey MasterMap data to boost small businesses

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  AI is key to keeping IBM compliant with GDPR

  Artificial intelligence is vital for keeping IBM compliant with the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation, which, in turn, provides opportunities for business, says the company’s data protection officer

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Schneider Electric CTO tips liquid cooling for take-off as machine learning takes over datacentre

  Witn machine learning fuelling demand for graphics processing units in the datacentre, Schneider Electric CTO claims this will require a drastic rethink of how operators manage their sites, paving the way for liquid cooling to hit mainstream adoption

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  CogX AI show opens with debate on Europe’s lack of dominance

  European researchers have made significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, but the dominant players all seem to be based in Silicon Valley

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Australian university reaches for the stars after HPC boost

  The University of Sydney has upgraded its supercomputing infrastructure to answer big questions on cosmology and keep pace with growing research needs

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Mayor Khan bids to make London the world’s smartest city

  At London Tech Week, mayor Sadiq Khan launched a city-wide initiative to harness the capital’s technology talent to address London’s most pressing problems

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Alibaba Cloud touts AI smarts to keep pigs healthy

  The Chinese cloud supplier has developed an AI program that has improved the yield and productivity of pig farms

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  London wants to show it’s open for business in Tech Week 2018

  London Tech Week 2018 kicks off with attracting young people into tech a key theme

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Artificial intelligence names London as UK’s top innovation hub

  An AI tool from Data City and the Open Data Institute has ranked the best clusters of cities for innovation across various technologies

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Thriving fintech, AI sectors give boost to UK tech funding

  British technology businesses have received £5bn worth of venture capital funding since June 2016 – more than France, Germany and Sweden put together – with fintech and AI startups standing out

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  Nation state cyber attacks affect all, says former GCHQ boss

  Cyber attacks by nation states used to be a small part of the problem for state authorities to address, but now all organisations are potential targets of nation state attacks, according to former GCHQ head

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  Newcastle Council to show off smartest street in Britain

  The Great Exhibition of the North will see Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne transformed into Britain’s smartest street as part of a demonstration of IoT technology

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Singapore government to form AI advisory council

  New council will develop standards and guidelines to address ethical issues arising from the growing use of artificial intelligence

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Sapphire 2018: SAP will take over CRM market, says McDermott

  SAP’s chief executive Bill McDermott tells 2018 Sapphire conference the supplier will storm the CRM market with its C/4 Hana business applications suite

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Australia’s chief scientist calls for AI regulations

  The proposal would require companies to apply for a trustmark so they know from the outset how their AI is expected to behave

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Complex pricing hinders enterprise assessment of AWS, Google and Microsoft cloud IoT hubs

  451 Research claims the complex IoT pricing models favoured by the hyperscale cloud giants are making life difficult for enterprise IT departments

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Mobile, IoT and cloud biggest drivers for Wi-Fi growth

  The intersection of mobility, the IoT and cloud will be the driving forces behind wireless network deployments over the next few years

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Offensive AI unlikely in the near future, says Mikko Hypponen

  Cyber criminals are not close to being able to use AI for attack purposes, according to industry veteran Mikko Hypponen, who has been at the forefront of AI use in cyber defence for several years

• May 31, 2018 31 May'18

  Artificial intelligence identifies skin cancer in lab test more effectively than doctors

  Artificial intelligence has outperformed experienced dermatologists in identifying skin cancer samples, further highlighting the potential of the technology in healthcare

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Firms step up spending on digital tech, but struggle with strategy

  Businesses and the public sector are stepping up their spending on digital technology, but many business leaders are struggling to keep pace with what it means for their business

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Drone industry set to contribute £42bn to UK economy by 2030

  PwC research has predicted drones could add £42bn to the economy and create 68,000 jobs by 2030

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Intelligence on the edge will see workloads migrate from clouds

  IoT devices’ ability to make their own decisions will see computing shift back from the cloud to the edge, ABI Research has predicted

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Policy Exchange report calls for GDS to be moved to DCMS

  Think-tank wants Government Digital Service to create a “single digital government account” for citizens, and says bringing the organisation into the Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport will improve focus on “all aspects of digital ...

• May 27, 2018 27 May'18

  Dedicated HPC infrastructure still rules, says Huawei

  A Huawei executive makes the case for dedicated high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, despite the growth of public cloud services that have democratised access to HPC and AI capabilities

• May 25, 2018 25 May'18

  MPs launch inquiry into automation and its impact on jobs

  House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee will look at the impact of automation on workers, businesses and the UK economy as a whole

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  Computing curriculum shake-up can’t happen in a single five-year parliamentary term, says panel

  At the launch of Ocado Technology’s AI:MMO educational game, a panel of experts said the computing curriculum needs an overhaul, but this cannot be achieved in a single government term of office

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  From open clouds to open infrastructure: OpenStack's evolution continues

  OpenStack is embarking on a push to position itself as a lot more than just an open source cloud software provider, with forays into containers and continuous integration tools, as enterprises continue to demand their infrastructure do more

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Unified comms bugbears may be easily solved with AI

  The concept of unified communications is now so wide-ranging that it is ripe for disruption – or improvement – by artificial intelligence, argues analyst Zeus Kerravala