Innovation

Amazon Echo Show Boosts Alexa AI With Touchscreen

Amazon is also building out the capabilities of the Echo speaker, now with call making and answering features

8 years ago

Durham Police Gets Helping Head From A Suspect Assessing AI

The police force is set to go live with the HART AI system in a couple of months

8 years ago

Nvidia Metropolis Platform Brings AI Smarts To Smart City Video Feeds

The graphics giant is mixing its latest tech together to bolster analytics in smart cities

8 years ago

PwC Appoints First AI Leader To Head-Up The Rise Of The Machines

Euan Cameron assumes the newly created role to push the adoption of automation technologies

8 years ago

London To Get ‘Office Of Technology And Innovation’

The centralised body is intended to coordinate digital programmes across the city and promote a culture of technology preparedness

8 years ago

Microsoft Has Found Its Innovation Streak With Satya Nadella At The Helm

OPINION: Microsoft is demonstrating it is back with innovation after being mired in stagnant products for some time

8 years ago

Tech Quiz: The Week In Review (5 May)

It's been another week filled with tech news, but have you been paying attention?

8 years ago

Amazon CEO Bezos $1bn Stock Sell-Off To Fund Space Firm

Jeff Bezos this week has sold $941m in Amazon stock as he continues to plough funds into space venture

8 years ago

Jive Labs Launches To Research The Future Of Enterprise Collaboration

Jive partners with University of California and the Connected Commons community to research organisational network analysis

8 years ago

Amazon Expands UK R&D With Cambridge Development Centre

The new centre will focus on machine learning and devices such as the Kindle, Fire tablet, Echo Dot and Alexa

8 years ago

Welsh Universities Receive Supercomputing Investment

Supercomputing investment of £15m to drive 'world-class scientific research', as well as create jobs and industry partnerships

8 years ago

Wearables In The Workplace: The Hurdles, Benefits And Opportunities

The adoption of wearables has grown rapidly in the consumer world, but why has adoption been slower in the enterprise…

8 years ago

Machine Learning Will Require A Shake-Up Of Higher Education And Tech Skills

The Royal Society launched a report exploring the impact of machine learning on business and society

8 years ago

Amazon Wants To Transform Logistics And Deliveries With Driverless Car Tech

Autonomous vehicles could be used by Amazon to lower shipping costs and speed up deliveries

8 years ago

Police Use Of ICT Is ‘Persistently Weak’ Finds Inspectorate of Constabulary

Police aren't making effective use of digital technologies to manage and share information, and risk being 'left behind'

8 years ago

Elon Musk Wants To Create A Brain Computer Interface In the Next Four Years

The tech entrepreneur aims to achieve this sci-fi goal with his new company Neuralink

8 years ago

Apple Targets 100 Percent Recycled iPhones In Environmental Push

Apple pledges sustainable future but won't shift on "right to repair" issue

8 years ago

Facebook To Connect Human Brain To Computers

Because that's not concerning. Brain interface to allow humans to communicate with computers

8 years ago

Harman Embraces IBM Watson for Voice-Controlled IoT-Equipped Cognitive Rooms

The system allows for rooms with smart tech to be controlled through natural language recognition

8 years ago

Computer And Internet Pioneer Robert Taylor Dies At 85

Taylor oversaw the development of key technologies including the Internet, the graphical user interface, an early search engine and Java

8 years ago

Think Tank Urges Retraining Programmes For Those Replaced By Robots

The IPPR argues a skills levy could help offset the disruptive effects of robots replacing millions of human jobs

8 years ago

Google Touts Speedy Custom AI Chips That Trounce GPUs And CPUs

Chip boast – Google claims its own AI chips remove the need to increase the number of its data centres

8 years ago

Driverless Shuttle Testing Underway In London’s Greenwich

5,000 members of the public have signed up to ride in the autonomous prototype shuttle

8 years ago

General Motors Connects A Quarter Of Its Robot Workforce To The Internet

The car giant uses cloud-based data analytics to prevent disruption to the robotic assembly line

8 years ago

Tales In Tech History: The Compaq ‘Luggable’ And Portable Computers

In March 1983 Compaq introduced one of the first portable computers, and the first to legally clone IBM's PC -…

8 years ago

DVLA Has Digital Drivers License Ambitions For Apple Pay

The government agency is aiming to have a working prototype available by September 2017

8 years ago

Microsoft Opens Insider IoT And AI Lab In Munich

Cisco will join Microsoft in providing startups and enterprises the tech to get their AI and IoT systems off the…

8 years ago

Canada Ploughs £120m Into AI Research Institute

Canadian government joins business community for significant investment into research for artificial intelligence

8 years ago

The Future Is Girl-Led Startups; Are You Joining Us?

Anne-Marie Imafidon, founder of the Stemettes, champions the need for more women spearheading startups

8 years ago

Scotland Eyes ‘Digital World’ With 150,000 Jobs Boost

Scottish government launches new digital strategy and reveals plans to boost number of digital jobs

8 years ago