Innovation

Reading Receives 30km Of CityFibre’s High-Speed Network

Reading becomes the UK's latest Gigabit City with access to ultrafast broadband

8 years ago

Uber Pilots Self-Driving Car Rides In Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh residents can now book a ride in a car that can - almost - drive itself

8 years ago

Amazon Echo Coming To UK And Germany

The Echo presents opportunities for smart home software developers

8 years ago

Facebook Brings Native Payments To iOS and Android Messenger App

The social networking giant has tweaked its chatbot platform with a suite of features

8 years ago

Space Tech Gets £2m Funding And Earth Observation Portal

The government is aiming to boost development of UK technologies based on earth observation satellites

8 years ago

HPE Aruba Gives Mobile and IoT Networks API Flexibility

Mobile First Platform allows the integration of third-party services via APIs and delivers real-time network information.

8 years ago

Bitcoin: The Future Currency Businesses Cannot Ignore

Bitcoin and blockchain technology can usher in a new way for businesses to carry out transactions; there will be challenges…

8 years ago

MIT Uses Terahertz Radiation And Sophisticated Algorithms To Read A Book Through Its Cover

The prototype system heralds the potential future for computational imaging technologies

8 years ago

Harrow Council Integrates Watson AI Into Social Care Pilot

The cognitive technology is to help individuals and carers manage personal health budgets

8 years ago

IBM Reveals Power8 Linux Servers Aimed At AI and Big Data Workloads

Big Blue's new servers mix Power8 processors with Nvidia's NVLink technology

8 years ago

Google DeepMind WaveNet Mimics Human Speech

DeepMind has used neural networks to create a computer model that generates natural sounding speech and music

8 years ago

How 3D Printing Will Change Your Industry

3D printing is on the verge of becoming a mainstream technology but how will it change your business?

8 years ago

NHS ‘Exemplar’ Trusts To Lead Digital Transformation

Government promises up to £10 million for 12 trusts to further develop digital expertise and pass it on to the…

8 years ago

Amazon’s Free London Restaurant Deliveries To Challenge Just Eat And Deliveroo

The new scheme takes direct aim at Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats

8 years ago

Wearable Tech On The Rise Despite Falling Apple Watch Sales

Fitness bands continue to outsell smartwatches

8 years ago

EE Starts Rollout of LTE-A Powered 360Mbps 4G+

EE looks to press home technical advantage with 360Mbps Cat9 LTE-A rollout, starting with Wembley Stadium

8 years ago

Accenture London’s Fintech Innovation Lab Aims To Boost Financial Tech Startups

HSBC, Lloyds, RBS and other banks will offer mentoring and support to fintech startups

8 years ago

Intel Buys Movidius To Boost RealSense Smart Machine Tech

By snapping up the startup, Intel will look to bring its perceptual computing platform to virtual reality headsets, drones, robots…

8 years ago

Startup Showcase: Karhoo

This week we hear from Daniel Ishag, CEO of cab comparison app Karhoo, about his startup and its ambitions

8 years ago

BlackBerry Delivers ‘Spy-Proof’ Tablets For German Government

Sorry NSA. German government agencies to use 'spy proof' Samsung tablets thanks to Blackberry unit

8 years ago

Samsung Gear S3 Smartwatch Includes 4G

Go big or go home. Samsung gets bold with the new design of its Gear S3 smartwatch

8 years ago

HPE Revamps Big Data Machine Learning Range

A new version of Vertica and added features to Haven OnDemand bulk up HPE's machine learning cloud capabilities

8 years ago

Swiss Post Starts Robotic Delivery Trials

Starship Technologies' six-wheeled delivery robots to be tested in Swiss cities

8 years ago

Microsoft Buys Up AI Calendar Service Genee For Office 365

If you wanna be with me, baby there's a price to pay, I'm a Genee in a bottle, you gotta…

8 years ago

Report: ARM Targets Supercomputers With New Chip Design

New chip design to extend ARM's ambitions from the data centre and into supercomputer territory

8 years ago

CNN To Gather News Using Drones, Sets Up UAS Unit

Two full-time drone operators will help the network integrate the unmanned aircraft systems into its ongoing news coverage

8 years ago

Apple Belatedly Opens China R&D Centre

CEO Tim Cook visits China again and announces Chinese R&D centre to bolster stuttering performance

8 years ago

Microsoft Ditches Ethernet At Its Campuses

If you plan to visit Microsoft in the future, it may be near-impossible to find an Ethernet port to plug…

8 years ago

Uber Starts Self-Driving Car Rides As Volvo Becomes Autonomous Partner

Uber strikes $300m (£228m) deal with Volvo, will start driving passengers with autonomous vehicles in 'next few weeks'

8 years ago

Ford Plans Self-Driving Cars By 2021

Ford's autonomous car fleet will be sold to ride-sharing companies such as Uber

8 years ago