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Government Offers £2m To Fund Terrorist Targeting TechGovernment Offers £2m To Fund Terrorist Targeting Tech

Government Offers £2m To Fund Terrorist Targeting Tech

Research projects that help pick out terrorists in crowds are being sought by the Home Office

8 years ago
Driverless Boat Testing To Take Place Off England’s South CoastDriverless Boat Testing To Take Place Off England’s South Coast

Driverless Boat Testing To Take Place Off England’s South Coast

BAE Systems will create a driveless system testing service for autonomous boats and planes

8 years ago
Microsoft Wants AI To Save The World From Environmental WoeMicrosoft Wants AI To Save The World From Environmental Woe

Microsoft Wants AI To Save The World From Environmental Woe

AI for Earth will look to tackle climate change issues with smart tech

8 years ago
Google Creates Research Initiative To Study How Humans Interact With AIGoogle Creates Research Initiative To Study How Humans Interact With AI

Google Creates Research Initiative To Study How Humans Interact With AI

The People + AI Research Initiative has launched with its human-focused research goals

8 years ago
Nvidia Joins Forces With Chinese Internet Giant Baidu To Push AI Tech AdoptionNvidia Joins Forces With Chinese Internet Giant Baidu To Push AI Tech Adoption

Nvidia Joins Forces With Chinese Internet Giant Baidu To Push AI Tech Adoption

The partnership will focus on artificial intelligence in driverless cars, the cloud and research

8 years ago
Ocado Is Testing A Driverless Delivery Vehicle In LondonOcado Is Testing A Driverless Delivery Vehicle In London

Ocado Is Testing A Driverless Delivery Vehicle In London

The online grocery giant is continuing to push autonomous technology in its operations

8 years ago
Belfast To Host AI Camp Aimed At Teaching Students Machine Learning Digital SkillsBelfast To Host AI Camp Aimed At Teaching Students Machine Learning Digital Skills

Belfast To Host AI Camp Aimed At Teaching Students Machine Learning Digital Skills

The two-week course will take place at the Computer Science Centre at Queen's University Belfast

8 years ago
Taunton And Somerset NHS Trust Turns To Google DeepMind For Mobile AppTaunton And Somerset NHS Trust Turns To Google DeepMind For Mobile App

Taunton And Somerset NHS Trust Turns To Google DeepMind For Mobile App

Google-owned DeepMind signs up yet another NHS Trust as a partner

8 years ago
DHS Wants To Use Neural Networks To Boost Airport SecurityDHS Wants To Use Neural Networks To Boost Airport Security

DHS Wants To Use Neural Networks To Boost Airport Security

Neural networks have many practical applications and body scanning could be one of them

8 years ago
Nokia Goes Big On Digital Health With Connected PortfolioNokia Goes Big On Digital Health With Connected Portfolio

Nokia Goes Big On Digital Health With Connected Portfolio

New products include a Wi-Fi connected BMI scale and a blood pressure monitor

8 years ago
Tech Firms Handed $258m To Develop Exascale SupercomputerTech Firms Handed $258m To Develop Exascale Supercomputer

Tech Firms Handed $258m To Develop Exascale Supercomputer

Large chunk of money handed to tech firms from US government to develop 1,000 petaflop supercomputer

8 years ago
Microsoft AI Beats Ms Pac-Man Top ScoreMicrosoft AI Beats Ms Pac-Man Top Score

Microsoft AI Beats Ms Pac-Man Top Score

The AI training techniques could be used to train better AIs for other tasks

8 years ago
Ford Will Open Smart Mobility Innovation Centre In London’s Here EastFord Will Open Smart Mobility Innovation Centre In London’s Here East

Ford Will Open Smart Mobility Innovation Centre In London’s Here East

The car maker could use Here East's private roads for testing autonomous driving systems

8 years ago
BT: AI Divides Opinion On Whether Robots Will Steal Human JobsBT: AI Divides Opinion On Whether Robots Will Steal Human Jobs

BT: AI Divides Opinion On Whether Robots Will Steal Human Jobs

Some organisations predict the smart technology will create jobs while others speculate big job losses in their own ranks

8 years ago

Softbank Buys Boston Dynamics From Google

Moonshot project shot down. Alphabet finally offloads unwanted robotics division Boston Dynamics

8 years ago

BlackBerry Toughens QNX Against Car Hackers

Hacker proof cars? BlackBerry QNX Hypervisor launch allows for partition and isolation of safety-critical systems

8 years ago

IBM Reveals World’s First 5nm Chip With 30bn Transistors

Big Blue has moved away from FinFET to produce the tiny chip architecture

8 years ago

Toyota Adopts Open Source Software For In-Car Systems

Spread of open-source software continues into vehicles with Toyota opting for Linux-based platform

8 years ago

Nvidia Isaac Is A Virtual Simulator For Training AI And Robots Speedily And Safely

Isaac aims to make robot testing a more scalable process than real-world trials

8 years ago

Ulster University Launches £2m Hub Designed To Accelerate Health Tech Innovation

The innovation hub expands upon Ulster University's commitment to healthcare tech development

8 years ago

AI Discovers Drug That Could Slow Down Motor Neuron Disease

BenevolentAI's technology demonstrated the benefit if AI in healthcare

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

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

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

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

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

Facebook To Connect Human Brain To Computers

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

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

HPE Will Create Intel-Powered Supercomputer To Drive BASF’s Industrial Chemical Research

The supercomputer will aim to reduce research simulations and modeling down from months to days

8 years ago