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As businesses of all sizes build their strategies for COVID recovery, data will play a vital role. As the commercial landscape has changed, information is critical to creating new secure and robust processes and trading environments to ...
News that Amazon has moved into the wearable health and fitness area with its Halo Band, Silicon UK considers the technologies and services we can all access to improve our health and stay fit. Wearable health has been an option for se ...
Twitter confirms its algorithm used for picture-cropping is being investigated over racial bias concerns, and opens up its source code
Unbelievable! Driver in Canada charged with dangerous driving, after he slept in fully reclined seat as his Tesla car drove at 90mph
Gartner recently noted a shift away from data dashboard. Is this a trend that will continue? As businesses collect vast quantities of information from their customers and commercial partners, how can this data be visualized for insight ...
How do charities use technology to manage their organizations and, raise their funds? In an environment dominated by COVID-19, how can charities leverage technology to maintain fundraising and offer new ways of giving?
Effort to combat disinformation campaigns sees Microsoft offer software tool to help identify deepfake photos and videos ahead of US election
Elon Musk and his Neuralink team implant a computer chip in the brain of a pig, in the first stage of a human-machine interface
White House pledges $1 billion for research push in the United States into artificial intelligence (AI), 5G and quantum computing
Bold next step? Working demonstration of Neuralink's human brain to machine interface is promised by Elon Musk late on Friday evening
Much of the work being done today to fight crime is analyzing the vast quantities of data every police force now collects. How are these big datasets being analyzed? And how are the insights gained impacting on practical policing?
British motorways in 2021 could see self-driving cars in the slow lane, under proposals being considered by the government
Milestone ruling. The UK Court of Appeal rules use of automatic facial recognition (AFR) tech by South Wales Police is unlawful
Former senior executive at Google’s self-driving car project sentenced to 18 months in prison for large trade secret theft
Long running dispute. Xiao-i alleges in a Chinese court that Apple's voice-recognition tech in Siri infringes on its artificial intelligence patents
COVID-19 may have changed the retail landscape forever. What will retailing look like in a post-COVID-19 world? Will the high street be able to survive and, how will retailers evolve their strategic use of the omnichannel?
Supercomputer for Florida university will offer 700 petaflops of AI performance to “tackle some of the world's most formidable challenges”
So long AirPods? Neuralink project will eventually directly stream music into a person's brain, claims Elon Musk
Tesla boss believes cars will be able to carry out full autonomous driving without human attention by the end of the year
Healthcare, like many other sectors, is moving through technological change. All of the technologies in development need patient data. The healthcare sector already collects masses of information, but much of this is unstructured and n ...
Eric Schmidt says Huawei does pose national security risk and has engaged in 'unacceptable acts', but the Chinese firm denies his accusations
Software giant follows IBM and Amazon with police facial recognition ban until there is national regulation of the technology
Big Blue cancels its facial recognition programs and calls for reform and new ways to work with law enforcement, "to advance justice and racial equity"
Facebook has agreed a multi million dollar settlement with content moderators who sued it for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mental health issues
Marcos Kauffman is currently the Director at the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) - Coventry University Institute for Future Transport and Cities, Intellectual Property Strategy Director at Next Seti Internatio ...
In this final part of Silicon UK’s look at automation, we consider what the future holds for all enterprises. What should your business’s automation roadmap look like?
Photography-focused P40 smartphone range launched by Chinese tech giant, as it contends with US restrictions, and potentially a chip ban
Social networks are turning to AI and automated tools to police social networking posts, as staff are sent home due to Covid-19 pandemic
Perfecting the quantum computer could finally be in reach. Data and communications are now an enterprise’s most precious asset. If a quantum network could be developed, what would this mean for businesses?
Privacy compromise. American company that has a database of more than three billion photographs of people has been hacked