Chris Middleton
Chris Middleton is former editor of Internet of Business, and now a key contributor to the title. He specialises in robotics, AI, the IoT, blockchain, and technology strategy. He is also former editor of Computing, Computer Business Review, and Professional Outsourcing, among others, and is a contributing editor to Diginomica, Computing, and Hack & Craft News. Over the years, he has also written for Computer Weekly, The Guardian, The Times, PC World, I-CIO, V3, The Inquirer, and Blockchain News, among many others. He is an acknowledged robotics expert who has appeared on BBC TV and radio, ITN, and Talk Radio, and is probably the only tech journalist in the UK to own a number of humanoid robots, which he hires out to events, exhibitions, universities, and schools. Chris has also chaired conferences on robotics, AI, IoT investment, digital marketing, blockchain, and space technologies, and has spoken at numerous other events.
Banking: Is blockchain GDPR compliant – yes or no?
A blockchain provider contradicted itself when asked by Internet of Business about its banking solution's GDPR compliance. The company's response reinforces the complexity of...
Jaguar Land Rover all-terrain autonomous vehicles get academic boost
NEWSBYTE Leading radar and sensor experts from the University of Birmingham have been selected to help Jaguar Land Rover deliver a £3.7 million project...
80 percent of organisations set to invest in AI, claims report
Fifty-five percent of enterprises are set to make major investments in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2020, according to a new report.
A further 25 percent...
Google caves in to pressure, won’t renew Pentagon AI deal
Google has succumbed to pressure from its employees and announced that it will be exiting from the Project Maven contract with the US Department...
Robots & AI creating more jobs in Asia than they destroy
The belief that robots, automation, and AI simply displace jobs and make humans irrelevant is not borne out in Asia, reports Chris Middleton. However,...
Uber on track for IPO in 2019, says CEO
Uber is “on track” to go public in the second half of 2019, according to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Speaking to CNBC, he shared his belief...
SoftBank Pepper robot “astonishingly insecure”, potential “cyber weapon”
One of the world’s most popular humanoid robots, Pepper, from Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank, can easily be hacked and turned into a “cyber and...
UK, US authorities urged to stop police use of facial recognition
UPDATED On both sides of the Atlantic, concerns are rising about a covert real-time surveillance culture emerging among police officers – both state employed...
Uber crash: Poor object recognition and system design caused death
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released the preliminary findings of its investigation into the fatal accident in March involving an autonomous Uber...
Ben & Jerry’s scoops blockchain carbon trading pilot
What’s being billed as the “world’s first retail platform that connects consumers to their own carbon footprints” has been launched in a pilot programme...
Apple partners with Volkswagen on driverless vehicles
Apple has reportedly signed a deal with Volkswagen to make self-driving vehicles.
At present, the agreement is believed to centre on Volkswagen’s T6 transporters,...
SWIM launches IoT smart city, energy AI edge solutions
NEWSBYTE Edge intelligence startup SWIM.AI has announced new smart city and Internet of Things (IoT) offerings, powered by its EDX AI software.
Earlier this year,...