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.
Uber relaunching as Amazon-style hub for connecting all transport
Uber's launch of Uber Rent, JUMP integration, and public transport ticketing signal that it now sees itself as an Amazon-style marketplace for frictionless transport,...
Security: Why you should worry about unsecured IoT devices – Mozilla
The BIG READ. Mozilla has published the full version of its long-awaited Internet Health Report 2018. Chris Middleton looks at what it has to...
Uber buys electric bike-share startup JUMP in connected transport deal
Uber has announced the acquisition of electric bike-sharing company, JUMP Bikes.
The purchase signals Uber’s strategic shift away from a sole focus on cars and...
Apple, Google lead fight against US repeal of Clean Power Plan
Apple has voiced its opposition to the proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The world’s most valuable company...
Edge computing: SWIM launches AI digital twins that can learn
AI startup SWIM aims to democratise both AI and digital twin technologies by placing them at the edge and within reach of everyone's budget...
Apple hires Google AI chief to head machine learning | Analysis
Apple has hired John Giannandrea, Google’s former head of search and artificial intelligence, as its new head of machine learning and AI strategy.
Before joining...
Tesla slammed by safety board after latest fatality
UPDATED. US carmaker Tesla has been slammed by the US road safety board after confirming details of a fatal crash involving one of its...
No Under Armour: 150 million users’ data lifted from MyFitnessPal
NEWSBYTE US fitness giant Under Armour, which owns the MyFitnessPal application and community, has announced that the usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords of...
Fetch launches world’s first autonomous AI smart ledger
Fetch.AI has announced the launch of what it claims is the world’s first adaptive, self-organising smart ledger technology for decentralised transactions.
Fetch is described as...
Blue Prism integrates RPA with Google, AWS, IBM, Microsoft
NEWSBYTE: Blue Prism, the UK-founded prime mover in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), has announced new API integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, IBM,...
Pure Storage, NVIDIA launch enterprise AI supercomputer in a box
Pure Storage and NVIDIA have launched "AI in a box" for enterprise customers. Chris Middleton talks to Pure Storage CTO Alex McMullan about the...
Uber: Self-driving cars ordered off road by US, sells to Grab
Uber's self-driving cars have been ordered off the road in Arizona.
State Governor Doug Ducey has withdrawn permission for the company to test autonomous vehicles on...