Tag: 2018
Intel partners with Arm on IoT chips, Rolls-Royce on autonomous ships
Rival semiconductor producers Intel and Arm have agreed to collaborate to manage networks of connected devices based on their chips.
Reuters reports that Britain’s IP...
Alphabet: Financial results reveal Google’s emergence as cloud giant
Google’s parent Alphabet has reported Q2 financials revealing that revenues were up by 26 percent year on year, or 23 percent in constant currency.
The...
Microsoft results: Booming in cloud, edge services, and trust? Nadella speaks
Microsoft’s transformation into an enterprise cloud services company was underscored by full-year financial results that revealed total revenues of over $110 billion.
In Q4, the...
AI grand slam: We go court-side with IBM as Watson wins...
Chris Middleton was court-side at this year's Wimbledon tennis championships to see how matches are as much an AI-enhanced big data battle for the...
California passes landmark data privacy act. GDPR for USA?
The citizens of Silicon Valley have won round one of a battle against Google and Facebook, as California introduces new state data privacy laws,...
IBM Watson AI to sense crowd emotion at Wimbledon 2018
NEWSBYTE It’s data set and match at Wimbledon 2018 for IBM’s Watson AI system.
Watson has been taught to recognise players’ and fans' emotions at...
IoT spending to hit $1.2 trillion by 2022, claims IDC
NEWSBYTE Internet of Things (IoT) spending will hit $1.2 trillion by 2022, according to a new report.
Analyst firm IDC has announced the findings...
CogX 2018: How AI will teach itself to transform economy
As AI and robotics develop side by side, the medium-term future will see infant-like robots that can learn for themselves and crow-like machine intelligences...
Women in tech: the £150bn advantage of increasing diversity
To mark International Women’s Day – 8 March 2018 – Guardian technology journalist Joanna Goodman sets out not only the size of the challenge...
IoT ramps up cyber security risk, says in-depth report
A new report finds that most organisations lack the right mix of strategy and execution to tackle rising threats to cybersecurity. And the Internet...
South Korea most automated nation on earth, says report. The UK?...
South Korea trumps Japan and Germany in robotics, with the US also lagging behind in the top 10. Meanwhile, China is on the march....
VIDEO: Watch humanoid robots ski at 2018 Winter Olympics
(Video courtesy of Robert McGregor.)
Robots have been taking to the ski slopes at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea (see video).
Humanoid machines...