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.
NVIDIA: AI & cloud soaring, Turing launched – crypto-mining dead?
GPU and AI giant NVIDIA has just reported strong, analyst-beating Q2 results – and yet its share price fell. The takeaway for some was...
Google using DeepMind AI to reduce energy consumption by 30%
Google is using the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence from its DeepMind acquisition to reduce energy consumption in its data centres by...
Uber: Expands in Africa, South America – but haemorrhaging money
Frictionless transport company Uber has announced plans to expand its ride-hailing service to two more East African countries before the end of the year,...
China: Google backtracks on censored search as employees rebel
China continues to be both a vast business opportunity and an ethical flashpoint for the technology industry.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees on 16...
SPECIAL REPORT: How A.I. is exploding the Financial Services market
As the World Economic Forum publishes the most extensive and in-depth report yet on artificial intelligence's transformation of the financial services sector, Internet of...
AI commonplace in business in a decade, say third of firms
Nearly one in three companies (32 percent) believe that business use of artificial intelligence (AI) will be commonplace within the next decade, according to...
Microsoft, Amazon roll out Alexa-Cortana unification programme
Users of Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana digital assistants can now access features of the other's technology, said the companies in a joint announcement...
Musk at bay: Will Saudi cash help Tesla rid the world...
Chris Middleton reports on the latest twists and turns in the saga of Elon Musk and Tesla, as Saudi Arabia could help him take...
IoT on the beat: Met Police develop mobile fingerprinting device
The Metropolitan Police has become the first British force to develop its own mobile fingerprinting device, in a move designed to save officers time...
5G: Verizon partners with Apple, Google as commercial stakes rise
5G is emerging as a key commercial battleground as the emphasis shifts from experimental deployments to hard commercial realities, suggest recent announcements in the...
30% of enterprises hit by crypto-mining attacks in past month
Thirty percent of large UK businesses admit to being hit by crypto-mining attacks within the previous month, according to new figures released today.
The research,...
IoT security: New AI, ML, 5G, WingOS, satcom risks identified
Last week was a bad one for the cybersecurity sector, according to security experts at the DEF CON and Black Hat conferences. Chris Middleton...