Andrew Hobbs
Editor & Publisher
Five ways the Internet of Things is transforming businesses today
As Internet of Things (IoT) adoption continues to accelerate, Andrew Hobbs explores the key ways it is shaking up the business world.
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Retail: Scan & go checkout-free shopping comes to Sainsbury’s
In what it claims is a UK first, Sainsbury’s is trialling new scan, pay, and go technology in one of its London stores, removing...
IoT: Understanding the shift from cloud to edge computing
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For over a decade, consumer and enterprise technology users have had their heads in the cloud. But with the ever-growing workloads...
Citizens Advice calls for smart meter deadline extension
The UK’s provider of free, impartial guidance on matters ranging from finance and employment, to housing and benefits, has emplored the government to postpone...
Q&A | How telematics is making insurance more personal, with RSA’s...
After seeing success supplying telematics boxes to its car insurance customers, RSA Insurance Group is applying similar technology to its home and pet products....
Digital Catapult forms AI ethics committee
Digital Catapult, the UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation centre, has appointed the country’s first applied artificial intelligence (AI) ethics committee, in order to...
Critical security flaws found in popular medical records software
The world’s most widely-used open-source electronic health records solution OpenEMR has been found to contain 18 cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The software, employed by medical practices...
Is Facebook asking banks to share users’ financial data?
Facebook has reportedly approached several large US banks, asking them to share detailed financial data about their customers, including bank balances and card transactions.
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China dominating rest of world in cloud & AI patents
A machine learning-driven analysis platform has examined 100 million cloud and AI-related intellectual property rights, and discovered that Chinese companies filed eight times as...
Could M&S’s new data academy secure its digital-first future?
In an effort to combat the digital retail shadow cast by the likes of Amazon, UK high street store Marks & Spencer has teamed...
Electric vehicles: UK government hits go on Future Mobility Challenge
The UK government’s Future of Mobility Grand Challenge took a significant step forward today, in a move that could shake up the transportation sector...
Robotic hand uses AI, 100 simulated years to achieve dexterity
AI researchers from non-profit organisation OpenAI have created a system that allows a robotic hand to learn to manipulate physical objects with unprecedented dexterity,...