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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 bloomers?
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 benevolent
Vodafone Tests 5G Systems To Help Cars Communicate
Vodafone's research could pave the way for self-driving cars
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 company
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
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 another human-driven car.
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 location services and other vehicles
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
Quantum Teleportation Breakthrough Discovered By Canadian Scientists
Beam me up, Scotty. Researchers in Canada break record after teleporting information between two city-based locations
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
Uber Pilots Self-Driving Car Rides In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh residents can now book a ride in a car that can - almost - drive itself
Facebook Brings Native Payments To iOS and Android Messenger App
The social networking giant has tweaked its chatbot platform with a suite of features
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 but the reward may justify the effort
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
Google DeepMind WaveNet Mimics Human Speech
DeepMind has used neural networks to create a computer model that generates natural sounding speech and music
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
Swiss Post Starts Robotic Delivery Trials
Starship Technologies' six-wheeled delivery robots to be tested in Swiss cities
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 rub me the right way
Report: ARM Targets Supercomputers With New Chip Design
New chip design to extend ARM's ambitions from the data centre and into supercomputer territory
Apple Belatedly Opens China R&D Centre
CEO Tim Cook visits China again and announces Chinese R&D centre to bolster stuttering performance
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'
Ford Plans Self-Driving Cars By 2021
Ford's autonomous car fleet will be sold to ride-sharing companies such as Uber
Facebook Converges Hardware Labs, Opens Area 404
Facebook pools hardware teams into one lab to boost efficiency
Microsoft Launches Five New Chat Bots For Skype
Skyscanner, StubHub and Star Trek bots come to the VoIP platform
Uber Is Spending £380m On Google Maps Alternative
Uber's own mapping service will be part of self-driving car initiative, according to reports
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
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
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
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