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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  PepsiCo hires robots to interview job candidates

  The food and drinks multinational is using artificial intelligence software, known as Robot Vera, to phone and interview candidates as it seeks to fill vacancies for factory, sales workers and drivers in Russia

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  NSA calls for cyber security community collaboration

  A US National Security Agency (NSA) representative has called for cyber security community collaboration at the National Cyber Security Centre’s conference in Manchester

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Finnish government backs national AI development strategy

  Government is harnessing Finland’s tech base to help make the country a leading location for the artificial intelligence industry

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Australia needs to plug innovation gap

  Being at the crossroads of technological change, Australia should decide if it wants to be a producer of cutting-edge applications or be contented with just being a user of technology

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  What Amazon’s ideal robot looks like

  Robots should be available at the fingertips and work in tandem with humans and other machines to improve task efficiency, says the chief technologist of Amazon Robotics

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  Healthcare services will be built around IoT by 2030, according to report

  The next five to 10 years will see massive disruptions in the healthcare space, with artificial intelligence playing an increasing role in diagnosis and treatment by 2030, a report predicts

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  HSBC adopts fintech to fight money laundering

  HSBC is using technology from a fintech startup to help it monitor transactions for potential money laundering

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  Autonomous drones will fly into danger zones for emergency services

  Automated drones will use sophisticated visual systems and machine learning techniques to carry out search and rescue missions where humans fear to tread

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  Microsoft teams up with Japan’s JRCS on mixed reality

  Software giant Microsoft has partnered with a Japanese supplier of maritime systems to test the use of HoloLens headsets for training and maintenance work

• April 06, 2018 06 Apr'18

  Why Lufthansa went back to the drawing board with its HR IT project

  Aviation group says it is confident of landing a company-wide IT project following a sometimes turbulent journey

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  The Hackett Group predicts rise of robotic process automation

  RPA promises to make certain back-office business processes vastly more efficient by taking over manual tasks

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  Microsoft plans to invest $5bn to boost IoT business

  Its vision involves sensor data from IoT devices being processed across a distributed computing infrastructure from the edge to Azure

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  AWS expands edge computing service to Singapore

  Amazon’s Snowball Edge strengthens its support for hybrid use cases in a fast-growing market for the internet of things and hybrid IT

• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

  IT set to gain the most from AI and automation

  IT administrators anticipate that artificial intelligence and automation will only affect mundane tasks, freeing up 19% of their workload

• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

   Automation and gamification key to cyber security

  The use of automation and gamification are key to winning the fight against cyber criminals in the face of the skills’ shortage, a study investigating challenges facing IT security teams reveals

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  £5m Ada Lovelace Institute launched to look into data ethics

  Nuffield Foundation announces institute to examine ethical and social issues arising from the use of data, algorithms and artificial intelligence

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Arm and Nvidia collaborate on internet of things intelligence

  A collaboration between Arm and Nvidia looks to provide deep learning and artificial intelligence on internet-connected devices

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  The Cambridge Analytica case: What’s a data scientist to do?

  The Cambridge Analytica controversy has highlighted data ethics issues especially dear to early career stage data scientists

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  Arsenal uses Innovation Lab accelerator to improve worldwide fan experience

  Arsenal’s Innovation Lab programme has enabled collaboration with “world-class” startups to offer the best experience for fans in the future, says the club’s IT director

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs

  Intelligent agents and automation will be needed to support digitisation efforts in business, but to succeed, IT will need to apply these techniques internally

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  HPE calls for bottom-up approach to AI

  A bottom-up approach towards data modelling is needed to address the shortcomings of physical and theoretical models in artificial intelligence

• March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

  ShopDirect set to use AI to detect fraud on phone calls

  The online retailer has signed a contract to use voice authentication technology from Pindrop to tackle fraud and improve customer experience

• March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

  Swedish study talks up benefits of artificial intelligence

  A major report has reassured Swedish society that artificial intelligence will be a positive force for change despite fears of job losses

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Mayor of London kick-starts drive to make city top for AI

  London mayor Sadiq Khan commissions a study to look at improving the capital’s readiness for artificial intelligence

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  What would coders do in ethical grey areas?

  Software developers are writing code that affects the lives of millions of people and how businesses are run, but what do coders think about some of the ethical questions they face?

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Uber autonomous vehicle death raises questions for UK law review

  Uber suspended testing of autonomous vehicles in North America after one of its cars struck and killed a pedestrian this week, and the tragic accident raises big questions in the light of the UK’s ongoing legal review of self-driving cars

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  HPE pushes prescriptive AI for industrial applications

  Predicting when a machine will fail is one thing, but HPE hopes its artificial intelligence service will help businesses augment their maintenance programmes

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  IBM delivers Watson-powered voice assistant for consumer brands

  Alexa and Google Assistant have taken residence in people's homes. IBM aims to give companies a way to deliver their own branded AI voice assistants

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Oracle Q3 2017-18 results see cloud revenue grow to $1.6bn

  Oracle’s third-quarter results for fiscal year 2018 show an increase of almost 7% of overall revenue to $9.8bn, of which 18% was cloud

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Brexit is an opportunity to transform, says HMRC digital transformation director

  HMRC’s digital transformation director Brigid McBride on Brexit opportunities, using AI and robotics to improve services, and growing the API ecosystem

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Researchers use AI, big data and machine learning to find best place in the world to live

  West Perth in Australia and Hebden Bridge in the UK are among the top locations ranked by machine learning tool in SAS project

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Gatwick Airport turns to driverless tech to keep staff moving

  Gatwick Airport plans to trial driverless technology to move staff around the airfield, in the hope of creating an Uber-like service to cut costs and emissions

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  First Direct enables customers to pay by Siri

  Customers of online bank First Direct can now use voice commands to transfer money through Apple’s digital assistant

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  How airlines are gearing up for the digital shift

  Asian carriers are counting on personalised services, blockchain-enabled loyalty programmes, automation and predictive maintenance to lower costs and improve passenger experience

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  Employers face hiring crisis as AI replaces mid-skilled jobs

  Artificial intelligence could replace two-thirds of existing jobs within 20 years, and employers will face growing difficulties recruiting skilled staff

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  IBM sets up no-fee Data Science Elite team to speed up AI adoption

  IBM uses Think conference in Las Vegas to launch a no-fee data science consultancy and a platform for artificial intelligence app development

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  UK demand for AI professionals has almost tripled in three years

  As the technology landscape changes, so do the skills organisations need, and research by jobsite Indeed has revealed a big rise in demand for people with artificial intelligence skills

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  Coders feel responsible for impact of artificial intelligence on society

  The technologists building artificial intelligence algorithms should take responsibility for the technology’s impact on society, a survey finds

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  With auditability, deep learning could revolutionise insurance industry

  The likes of Google may be pushing deep learning in artificial intelligence, but it may not be the best approach for regulated industries

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  Online data can be used to create better housing for all, says Resi’s Depledge

  Alex Depledge, CEO of Resi, will speak at Datafest on how online data can open up architecture to more people – but she warns against over-hyping data science

• March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

  Microsoft's Chinese-English translation system achieves human parity

  A China-US research team at software powerhouse Microsoft has developed an AI-powered system that can translate Chinese news articles into English as well as humans do.

• March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

  Amazon Rekognition goes live in AWS Sydney region

  The cloud-based AI service from Amazon Web Services has already drawn a diverse set of Australian businesses, paving the way for greater adoption of AI in Australia

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Government ‘unlawfully delegated’ bulk data powers to GCHQ, court hears

  Privacy International urges Britain’s most secret court, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, to rule that the government illegally collected surveillance data from internet and phone companies until at least September 2017

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Retailers need to prepare properly before AI adoption, say experts

  Artificial intelligence can help many areas of the retail landscape, but retailers should make sure they prepare before taking on AI adoption, says an expert panel

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Accountants look to artificial intelligence as clients get more demanding

  Accountancy firms are planning to invest in artificial intelligence and automation technologies to free up staff from repetitive administrative tasks

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Industrial robots set to cut out human workforce

  Greater operational efficiency and a reduction in errors are among the benefits of industrial robots – but the biggest savings are in staffing

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Government pumps £300m into tech and innovation for ageing society

  Business secretary Greg Clark announces plans to use £300m from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund for new technology and research, such as artificial intelligence and genome sequencing

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Russian augmented reality startups break into enterprise space

  Augmented, virtual and mixed reality technologies edge closer to enterprise adoption in Russia as a strong local developer network grows

• March 12, 2018 12 Mar'18

  Digital for rural areas worth up to £26bn to UK economy

  A study commissioned by Amazon has posited that greater use of digital tools and services could be worth between £12bn and £26bn per annum to the UK economy

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Security researchers demonstrate ransomware attack on robots

  Researchers have carried out a ransomware attack on robots to show that such attacks are possible and should be guarded against