automation

Sainsbury’s Trials Till-Free Shopping In Clapham

The trial allows shoppers to scan items as they shop using a smartphone app, then check out via Apple Pay

6 years ago

Microsoft Working On Shop Automation Tech To Rival Amazon Go

Microsoft is working with retailers to build checkout-free systems like the Amazon Go shop that opened to the public in…

6 years ago

Jaguar Land Rover To Establish Ireland Software Development Centre

The research centre, staffed by 150 engineers, is to be located in Shannon, western Ireland, where Intel also has a…

7 years ago

Nissan Touts Brain Connectivity As Driving Aid

Lets hope it is keyless entry, as Nissan research says cars in future will tap into signals from the driver’s…

7 years ago

Workplace Robots To Hit Low Paid The Hardest

Bad robot? Increasing automation must not drive workplace wage inequality, think tank warns

7 years ago

Dreamforce 2017: Salesforce Adds Predictions & Chatbots To Einstein AI

The Einstein artificial intelligence platform gets predictive models and automated chatbots, which can be set up in a few clicks

7 years ago

Google Says Its AI Can Program AI Better Than Humans Can

Google's AutoML programme, announced earlier this year, has now produced machine-learning models that outperform hand-built ones

7 years ago

Government Review Lays Out Steps To Boost UK’s AI Industry

'Data trusts' should be formed to ensure information is shared securely, while guidance should be developed on how to explain…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

Technology Business Management ‘Can Change The Game’ For IT

Digital transformation has elevated IT departments to being central to business success, which means they need to be run differently

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

Think Tank Urges Retraining Programmes For Those Replaced By Robots

The IPPR argues a skills levy could help offset the disruptive effects of robots replacing millions of human jobs

8 years ago

Apple Acquires iOS App Workflow To Boost Automation Offering

All of Workflow's developers will move over to Apple and the app will continue to be available on the App…

8 years ago

Bill Gates Supports Income Tax For Robots

Taxation could be used to ease the effects of the job displacement caused by automation, Gates argues

8 years ago

Automation Kills Hundreds Of Jobs At Goldman Sachs

Tech can be a blessing and curse, after Goldman Sachs reveals how automation removed need for equity traders

8 years ago

British Rail Companies Plan Iris Scan And Fingerprint Biometric Ticketing

Biometric technologies could be used to speed up ticketing and help boost rail network capacity

8 years ago

White House Releases Report Preparing For AI Future

Job losses and changing skill requirements are two of the possible negative economic impacts

8 years ago

Automation Puts Public Sector Jobs ‘At Risk’

Sixteen percent of public sector jobs likely to be replaced by robots, study finds

8 years ago

World Economic Forum: Automation ‘To Cost 5.1 Million Jobs’

Robotics, artificial intelligence and other developments are to contribute to a net loss of jobs, finds the World Economic Forum

9 years ago

5 IT Christmas Nightmares – How To Avoid The Festive Fallout

Bob Janssen, founder and CTO at RES, shares tips on how to avoid the torture created for IT teams over…

9 years ago

11 Million UK Jobs ‘Under Threat From Robots’

Rise of the machines is bad news for UK job prospects, Deloitte report warns

10 years ago

Lloyds Set To Axe ‘Thousands Of Jobs’

The taxpayer-owned banking group is to reduce staff through greater automation, in a plan to be announced at the end…

10 years ago

Parallels Offers Universal Cloud Automation Tools

Parallels shows off new products including a new automation platform and web management tool

11 years ago

Startup PLUMgrid Launches Data Centre SDN Platform

A startup is offering an easy to use cloud software package that virtualises and automates data centre operations

11 years ago

Mobile Growth Drives Home Network Expansion, Says Gartner

Residential networks will increase in sophistication thanks to the growing use of connected devices within the home

12 years ago

iWave Automates Storage Provisioning

iWave's Storage Automator allows line-of-business users to provision, extend and reclaim enterprise storage without involving the IT department

12 years ago

IBM Acquires Varicent For Analytics Expertise

IBM is to buy Varicent, which makes software for automating and analysing the collection and reporting of cross-departmental sales data

13 years ago

HP Shows Gen8 Servers With ‘Sea Of Sensors’

At its first global partner conference, HP has updated its ProLiant range with 'intelligent' Gen8 servers

13 years ago

Survey: Administrators Fail To Manage Firewall Rules

Because firewall management is not automated, admins are cheating on audits, a study says

13 years ago

UC4 Unifies Enterprise Automation

UC4's ONE Automation, deploys and manages automation software across an organisation

14 years ago