Research

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

8 years ago

SAP Partners With Airbus Division For 3D-Printed Aircraft Parts

3D-printed aerospace components look to reduce weight and boost efficiency

8 years ago

Jaguar Rolls Out Self-Driving Cars On British Roads

Jaguar Land Rover plans fleet of 100 research vehicles that will test connected and autonomous technologies to assist drivers

8 years ago

LG, VW Collaborating To Develop A Connected Car And Home Platform

The joint research between LG and VW aims to create a next-generation platform that better connects cars and homes for…

8 years ago

Samsung Invests Heavily In IoT For US Market

Pledges £820m IoT investment in the United States and challenges rivals to develop "human centred" IoT applications

8 years ago

Tesla Eyes Complete Clean Energy Company With SolarCity Acquisition

Tesla has made a £1.9 billion acquisition bid for SolarCity in a "no brainer" deal to integrate solar power into…

8 years ago

Dell ‘HPC As A Service’ Targets Mainstream Businesses

Dell also launches HPC Systems for Life Sciences, Manufacturing, and Research

8 years ago

Google To Offer Symptom Search Results For Medical Queries

'I'm Feeling Yucky' - Google uses Knowledge Graph to give users more information on their medical searchs

8 years ago

Bank Of England Tests Blockchain With PwC

Central bank and PwC to test how blockchain could be used for distributed ledger technology

8 years ago

Microsoft Makes AI Move For Wand Labs

Reinforcements for malfunctioning Tay chatbot? Microsoft purchases AI app specialist Wand Labs

8 years ago

Google Opens European Machine Learning Centre

Zurich is now home to Google's Machine Learning research group in Europe

8 years ago