Research

Microsoft and Cambridge University Design AI That Can Create Its Own Programs

The smart software aims to aid not replace human programmers

7 years ago

Visa Opens London Innovation Centre To Develop Payment Tech

Visa opens its largest innovation centre as the world of digital payments continues to grow

7 years ago

Microsoft HoloLens Successor Slated For 2019

Redmond is happy taking its time with mixed reality

7 years ago

Google’s Project Loon Leaps Forward With Weather-Predicting Machine Learning

Google is now "years closer" to rolling out a network of the balloons thanks to machine learning

7 years ago

Ford Invests $1bn In Argo AI To Accelerate Self-Driving Car Development

The two firms will combine artificial intelligence and engineering expertise to being an autonomous car to the road in 2021

7 years ago

Apple’s Tim Cook Says AR Could Have The Same Tech Impact As Smartphones

The Cupertino CEO believes that augmented reality is for everyone

7 years ago

Automation Kills Hundreds Of Jobs At Goldman Sachs

Tech can be a blessing and curse, after Goldman Sachs reveals how automation removed need for equity traders

7 years ago

Cancer Research Smart Benches Offer Londoners Solar Power Charging And Free Wi-Fi

The smart benches come with contactless payment tech to enable people to make small on-the-fly donations

7 years ago

Ocado Works With EU Universities To Create Soft Touch Robotic Arm

The online grocery giant is looking to further push its automation agenda

7 years ago

Apple To Join Google, Facebook, IBM And Microsoft In ‘Partnership For AI’ Alliance

Apple set to join non profit 'the Partnership on AI' to collaborate on artificial intelligence research

7 years ago

Android Veteran Hugo Barra Joins Facebook As VR Head

Big name signing to lead Facebook's virtual reality team at Oculus, and welcomed personally onboard by Zuckerberg

7 years ago

D-Wave Releases £12m 2000Q Quantum Computing Processors With 2,000 Qubits

Temporal Defense Systems will use the data crunching power of quantum computing to tackle cyber threats

7 years ago

Google And Raspberry Pi Partnership Could Bring AI To Micro Computers

Developers are being quizzed on what machine learning tools they would like to use with the Raspberry Pi

7 years ago

Microsoft Buys Deep Learning Startup Maluuba And Signs Up AI Expert

Maluuba will join Microsoft's AI and Research organisation, giving it the resources and scalability to advance its research

7 years ago

Nissan To Test Self Driving Cars In London Next Month

Sign of the times. Modified Nissan Leaf to be driven on crowded public streets in London next month

7 years ago

Google Officially Ditches Project Titan Drone Broadband

Engineers scattered to other divisions as Titan doesn't make enough progress to continue

7 years ago

MIT Researchers Create Super Strong, Yet Light Material Using Graphene

Ten times stronger than steel but still light. Researchers blend flakes of graphene for new super tough material

7 years ago

Pentagon Tests Swarm Of Drones For Military Reconnaissance

The rise of the weaponised Internet of Things could start here

7 years ago

IBM Becomes First Tech Company To Get 8,000 Patents In One Year

More than a third of the patents related to AI, cognitive computing and cloud computing alone

7 years ago

Intel Reveals Credit-Card Sized Computer For Bringing Processing Power To IoT

CES 2017: The Compute Card features Intel's Kaby Lake processors and flexible connectivity options

7 years ago

Intel’s VR And AR Project Alloy Headset Due For Release In 2017

CES 2017: Intel outlines IoT, 5G, and driverless car plans alongside virtual reality work

7 years ago

Nvidia Xavier Supercomputer Aims To Turn Cars Into AIs On Wheels

Nvidia is bringing more supercomputer power into cars, and cloud gaming and Google's AI into homes

7 years ago

Amazon Plots ‘Airship Warehouse’ For Drone Deliveries

Patent reveals plan to create ''airborne fulfilment centres' or 'flying warehouses' to act as mothership for drones

7 years ago

BMW Hooks Up With IBM Watson For AI Car Research

Can I adjust your seat? BMW and Big Blue to apply artificial intelligence to future cars, with IBM Watson help

7 years ago

McLaren, Sharp, And Ilika Join Forces To Develop Autonomous Energy Harvesting IoT Tech

The Digital Catapult also revealed the winners of the IoT Boost Programme

7 years ago

Google’s Alphabet Launches Waymo Driverless Car Company

Google's driverless car development appears to be nearing fruition

7 years ago

Bill Gates And Friends Invest $1 Billion in Clean Energy Tech

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has assembled an all-star team to tackle the issue of renewable energy over the next 20…

7 years ago

Google Builds Up Self-Driving Cars Team Ahead Of Moonshot Graduation

Alphabet is advertising for a head of real estate to establish a new base for its autonomous project when it…

7 years ago

Drone Conference Examines Security And Safety Implications

Experts discuss safeguarding against drones that pose increasing threats to prisons, airports and public safety

7 years ago

Google Reveals The Most Detailed View Of Water On Earth Ever

Google and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre want to see how surface water on Earth has changed over the…

7 years ago