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Transportation, Sales & Retail Jobs ‘To Disappear’ As Robots Take Over
Automation and e-commerce are set to phase out 80 percent of transportation and warehousing jobs and 63 percent of sales employment, says Oxford University
Federighi Assignment Shows Apple Knows It Must Modernize Siri Soon
ANALYSIS: Craig Federighi, Apple's head of software engineering has taken over development of the Siri with plans to improve integration with iOS
Amazon Alexa & Microsoft Cortana Will Work Together
Two companies make surprise moves to encourage interoperability between Alexa and Cortana
IT LIFE: Chris Martin, Powwownow CTO
Powwownow CTO talks about his career in IT and why he's excited about AI
Microsoft Takes On AI Challenge With Project Brainwave
Redmond's deep learning acceleration board is said to deliver real-time artificial intelligence
Samsung Bixby Personal Assistant Arrives In UK
Samsung Bixby is now available to users in the UK and 200 other countries - but only in Korean and US English
More Than 100 Robotics Pioneers Call On UN TO Ban Killer Robots
An 'arms race' around lethal autonomous weapons would cause widespread instability, warn founders of robotics and AI companies
Box’s First AI Feature Is Cloud Image Recognition
Box will automatically detect images for objects and information to add contextual data and start workflows automatically
A-Level Results Day: British University Uses Chatbot To Help With Clearing
Leeds Beckett University is using Facebook Messenger to help students find the right courses in clearing
IT LIFE: Richard Pursey, SafeToNet CEO
Richard Pursey details how SafeToNet uses AI to protect children online, his career to date and why routemapping technology took his breath away
IBM & HSBC Team Up For Cognitive Trading Platform
Bank Tech: IBM and HSBC develop a cognitive and intelligence global trading system
Salesforce Rolls Out Einstein AI For Social Marketers
Salesforce's Einstein artificial intelligence can now be used to help marketers identify products and brands that appear in images posted on Twitter
Google Insists AI Better Than Humans For Extremist Content Takedown
Score one for the machine. Google admits its AI system is better at removing extremist content on YouTube
Facebook AI Experiment Shutdown Holds Lessons For IT Industry
Facebook's reasons for shutting down an AI-based chatbot were more mundane than it first appeared
Facebook Splashes Out On AI Startup To Boost Messenger Assistant
Facebook will look to make use of Ozlo's knowledge graph that reportedly contains over 2 billion entities
Bitcoin Cash ‘Fork’ Causes Uncertainty For Cryptocurrency Community
A group of Bitcoin infrastructure providers are set to split the cryptocurrency into two incompatible versions on Tuesday
London Dominates Tech Innovation But Smaller UK Cities Thrive In IoT, Data, VR
Manchester is a leader in IoT, while Brighton makes a top ten appearance for AI innovation
Garry Kasparov: Humans Should Embrace The Change AI Will Bring
Kasparov believes AI will aid society, not destroy it
Facebook Bakes Natural Language Processing Into Messenger Platform 2.1
Developers will be able to make better use of smart service capabilities in Messenger
Intel Processors To Power Autonomous Audi A8
Audi's A8 will use Intel's chips to power level 3 autonomous driving systems
Google Machine Learning Tech Aids Nuclear Fusion Research
Working with Tri Alpha Energy, Google has developed the research accelerating Optometrist algorithm
Mark Zuckerberg And Elon Musk Clash Over AI Destiny
Musk said Zuckerberg's understanding of AI is "limited"
STATS Edge Offers Football Clubs AI-Assisted Data Analytics On Opponents
STATS, which acquired prozone in 2016, hopes to enable new levels of football analysis with its AI-powered solution.
Domino’s Alexa Intergration Enables Pizza Ordering Via Voice Commands
Pizza fans will be able to order their favourite Domino's meal through a simple voice command barked at the Amazon Echo
Microsoft HoloLens 2 Will Feature A Dedicated AI Processor
The coprocessor will be able to run deep learning neural networks locally
Microsoft Zo AI Turns Its Virtual Nose Up At Windows 10, Suggests Linux Or Windows 7
Zo prefers Windows 7 and Linux over Redmond's flagship operating system
Microsoft Uses AI Bug Hunter To Detect Security Risks
Microsoft Security Risk Detection could help developers find and fix security vulnerabilities in software before it's released.
Lyft Takes High Road In Race To Develop Autonomous Cars
ANALYSIS: No. 2 ride-hailing company announces an ambitious plan to begin offering rides in self-driving cars by the end of this year
Intel’s Movidius Neural Compute Stick Aims To Usher In Plug-and-Play AI
The Movidius Neural Compute Stick looks to bring AI algorithms to the edge of networks