Research

Microsoft Goes Green With Agder Energi Smart Grid Project

Its cold in the Nordics, so Microsoft teams up with the locals to help electricity grid cope with demand

8 years ago

Tech Quiz Of The Week: The BBC’s Technology Journey

The BBC has pioneered television, radio and online - but what do you know about Auntie's technology triumphs and its…

8 years ago

AI Control Needs ‘Careful Consideration’ To Prevent Killer Computers

IP Expo 2016: Professor Nick Bostrom highlights the risks of creating a true artificial intelligence, even if its is completely…

8 years ago

Vodafone Tests 5G Systems To Help Cars Communicate

Vodafone's research could pave the way for self-driving cars

8 years ago

Microsoft Merges Research, Cortana And Bing Divisions To Create AI Arm

Redmond is looking to push AI technology into more of its services and has created a fourth group at the…

8 years ago

Tech Giants Form ‘Partnership For AI’ Artificial Intelligence Alliance

Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft join forces to explore the challenges, opportunities and ethics of artificial intelligence

8 years ago

Google’s Self-Driving Car Crash Results In Lexus Being Towed Off

Google’s driverless car has been involved in yet another crash, though the blame is laid firmly at the fender of…

8 years ago

HERE Sucks Data From Cars To Power Traffic Services

Digital map maker HERE has revealed a set of traffic services which pull data from a car’s sensors, the company’s…

8 years ago

Twitter Data Will Be Used To Tackle LA Hate Crime

An $800,000 grant has been awarded to the University to create a social network powered hate speech detecting system

8 years ago

Quantum Teleportation Breakthrough Discovered By Canadian Scientists

Beam me up, Scotty. Researchers in Canada break record after teleporting information between two city-based locations

8 years ago

Bruce Schneier: ‘Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet’

Security expert Bruce Schneier suspects state-sponsored DDoS attacks are being levied at major internet infrastructure providers to test cyber defences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Facebook Converges Hardware Labs, Opens Area 404

Facebook pools hardware teams into one lab to boost efficiency

8 years ago

Microsoft Launches Five New Chat Bots For Skype

Skyscanner, StubHub and Star Trek bots come to the VoIP platform

8 years ago

Uber Is Spending £380m On Google Maps Alternative

Uber's own mapping service will be part of self-driving car initiative, according to reports

8 years ago

Airbus Partners With Anti-Drone Company To ‘Defend’ Airports And Prisons

Airbus and Dedrone will work on long-range sensors and jamming technologies to take out 'illegal' drone pilots

8 years ago

Amazon Wins UK Government Approval For Drone Tests

A cross-governmental team, supported by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority, will aid Amazon in its delivery drone research

8 years ago

Google Launches Betas Of New Machine Learning APIs

Cloud Natural Language API and Cloud Speech API opened as betas for analysing large chunks of text and speech

8 years ago

Cisco Brings In Chatbot Partners For Spark Platform

Cisco announces collaboration with Gupshup and API.ai to bring chatbot features to developers and customers in the enterprise

9 years ago