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Facebook Solar-Powered Drone Is The Size Of A Boeing 737

Aquila drone project will see Internet laser-beamed to unconnected parts of the world from 90,000ft in the sky

9 years ago

Foals, Like Bjork, Use 360-Degree Virtual Reality Technology In New Music Video

Blog: VR tech hits the mainstream as the entertainment industry warms to audience participation

9 years ago

Amazon Wants ‘Sky Highways’ For Its Delivery Drones

Amazon uses NASA conference to propose dedicated drone air routes that would keep manned flights safe from drones and speed…

9 years ago

Stephen Hawking And Steve Wozniak Warn Of Military AI Arms Race

Elon Musk also signs open letter along with hundreds of top robotic scientists pleading military powers to curtail plans for…

9 years ago

WTO IT Trade Deal Cuts Technology Tariffs

Cheaper technology could be on the way as WTO cuts tariffs on more than 200 high-tech goods

9 years ago

Drone Encryption Hardware Is About To Be Deployed In British Army Tanks

ViaSat wins General Dynamics contract for Scout SV encryption tech following successful use in Watchkeeper drones

9 years ago

Robot With Bacteria Brains Developed By Scientist

Forget artifical intelligence - scientist develops technique for bacteria to control the behaviour of robots

9 years ago

Inmarsat Gets European Space Agency Backing For Mobile Satellite Services

ESA funding for Inmarsat will go on study looking at next generation of mobile satellite technologies

9 years ago

David Cameron Wants To Increase Spending On RAF Drones

Prime Minister urges defence chiefs to plough more cash into RAF Reaper drones to combat IS threat

9 years ago

Nokia Tests Drones For Telco Network Inspections

Nokia teamed with Middle East telco Du to run a PoC showing how drones can be used for everything from…

9 years ago

Microsoft Offers $500k Bonus To HoloLens App Developers

Five grants and HoloLens headsets are on offer to successful applicants

9 years ago

Linux Founder: Fears AI Could End Human Race Are ‘Bad Sci-Fi’

Linux founder Linus Torvalds dismisses the fears of Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and others, claiming there is nothing to be…

9 years ago

Factory Robot Crushes Man To Death

Rise of the Machines? Robot crushes a man to death but officials blame “human error”

9 years ago

Microsoft Loses Two HoloLens Headsets After SpaceX Rocket Failure

"Space is hard..." says Satya Nadella as SpaceX's CRS-7 unmanned resupply mission breaks apart just after launch

9 years ago

Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Predicts AI Will ‘Treat Humans As Pets’

Steve Wozniak changes his mind about artificial intelligence and predicts benevolent machines

9 years ago

Microsoft’s HoloLens Will Be Used By NASA In Space

WATCH: International Space Station reveals video showing astronauts training with HoloLens in parabolic flight

9 years ago

MIT Develops Solar-Powered Sensor To Keep IoT Data Flowing

Researchers invent solar-powered sensors to harness Internet of Things potential

9 years ago

Will Robots Replace Border Guards At Airports?

Aeroplane passengers in the future could be greeted by robot border guards instead of immigration officers

9 years ago

SoftBank’s Emotional Robot Pepper Goes On Sale

An 'emotional' robot that promises to be genuinely interactive will go on sale in America this weekend

9 years ago

BBC Toys With Mind Control Headset For iPlayer

Beam me up Scotty! Headset that reads brainwaves being developed to control BBC iPlayer platform

9 years ago

Airbus To Build Fleet Of 900 Internet Satellites

OneWeb selects Airbus Defence and Space as manufacturing partner for 2018 satellite constellation launch

9 years ago

Boffin Reveals Folding Battery Powered By Bacteria

Breakthrough design could mean smaller, more powerful batteries than ever before

9 years ago

Jaguar Land Rover’s Smart Cars Can Now Spot Potholes

Road monitoring technology helps spot obstacles in the road and hopefully minimise damage to your vehicle

9 years ago

Google Sidewalk Labs Targets Smart City Life

New startup Sidewalk Labs looks to develop unique technology to benefit the urban dweller

9 years ago

Baidu Teams Up With BMW For Self-Driving Cars

Chinese search giant may even beat Google in getting its vehicles out on the roads later this year

9 years ago

Artificial Intelligence Could Assimilate CIOs, Says Gartner

Total singularity may still be science fiction, but it's still worth CIOs 'raising awareness' of the issue to ensure appropriate…

9 years ago

Google Futurologist: Humans Will Have ‘Cloud Gateways’ In Brains By 2030

Nanobots in brains will be able to connect us to the Internet within 15 years, claims Google’s Ray Kurzweil

9 years ago

IBM CTO Says Artificial Intelligence Won’t Overtake Humans “For Centuries”

Contrary to Stephen Hawking’s claims, IBM Watson Fellow says artificial intelligence fear comes from "gross underestimation” of humans

10 years ago

IT Life: The Journey To Business Manoeuvrability

Thoughtworks' Ian Cartwright takes us through his career in IT, admiration for Elon Musk and his predictions for the future

10 years ago

Intel Gives Us A Gaze Into The Connected Future

Connected homes, smart TVs, and drones that fly themselves all form part of Intel’s future view

10 years ago