Research

Google DeepMind WaveNet Mimics Human Speech

DeepMind has used neural networks to create a computer model that generates natural sounding speech and music

8 years ago

HPE Revamps Big Data Machine Learning Range

A new version of Vertica and added features to Haven OnDemand bulk up HPE's machine learning cloud capabilities

8 years ago

Swiss Post Starts Robotic Delivery Trials

Starship Technologies' six-wheeled delivery robots to be tested in Swiss cities

8 years ago

Microsoft Buys Up AI Calendar Service Genee For Office 365

If you wanna be with me, baby there's a price to pay, I'm a Genee in a bottle, you gotta…

8 years ago

Report: ARM Targets Supercomputers With New Chip Design

New chip design to extend ARM's ambitions from the data centre and into supercomputer territory

8 years ago

Apple Belatedly Opens China R&D Centre

CEO Tim Cook visits China again and announces Chinese R&D centre to bolster stuttering performance

8 years ago

Uber Starts Self-Driving Car Rides As Volvo Becomes Autonomous Partner

Uber strikes $300m (£228m) deal with Volvo, will start driving passengers with autonomous vehicles in 'next few weeks'

8 years ago

Ford Plans Self-Driving Cars By 2021

Ford's autonomous car fleet will be sold to ride-sharing companies such as Uber

8 years ago

Facebook Converges Hardware Labs, Opens Area 404

Facebook pools hardware teams into one lab to boost efficiency

8 years ago

Microsoft Launches Five New Chat Bots For Skype

Skyscanner, StubHub and Star Trek bots come to the VoIP platform

8 years ago

Uber Is Spending £380m On Google Maps Alternative

Uber's own mapping service will be part of self-driving car initiative, according to reports

8 years ago

Airbus Partners With Anti-Drone Company To ‘Defend’ Airports And Prisons

Airbus and Dedrone will work on long-range sensors and jamming technologies to take out 'illegal' drone pilots

8 years ago

Amazon Wins UK Government Approval For Drone Tests

A cross-governmental team, supported by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority, will aid Amazon in its delivery drone research

8 years ago

Google Launches Betas Of New Machine Learning APIs

Cloud Natural Language API and Cloud Speech API opened as betas for analysing large chunks of text and speech

8 years ago

Cisco Brings In Chatbot Partners For Spark Platform

Cisco announces collaboration with Gupshup and API.ai to bring chatbot features to developers and customers in the enterprise

8 years ago

SAP Partners With Airbus Division For 3D-Printed Aircraft Parts

3D-printed aerospace components look to reduce weight and boost efficiency

8 years ago

Jaguar Rolls Out Self-Driving Cars On British Roads

Jaguar Land Rover plans fleet of 100 research vehicles that will test connected and autonomous technologies to assist drivers

8 years ago

LG, VW Collaborating To Develop A Connected Car And Home Platform

The joint research between LG and VW aims to create a next-generation platform that better connects cars and homes for…

8 years ago

Samsung Invests Heavily In IoT For US Market

Pledges £820m IoT investment in the United States and challenges rivals to develop "human centred" IoT applications

8 years ago

Tesla Eyes Complete Clean Energy Company With SolarCity Acquisition

Tesla has made a £1.9 billion acquisition bid for SolarCity in a "no brainer" deal to integrate solar power into…

8 years ago

Dell ‘HPC As A Service’ Targets Mainstream Businesses

Dell also launches HPC Systems for Life Sciences, Manufacturing, and Research

8 years ago

Google To Offer Symptom Search Results For Medical Queries

'I'm Feeling Yucky' - Google uses Knowledge Graph to give users more information on their medical searchs

8 years ago

Bank Of England Tests Blockchain With PwC

Central bank and PwC to test how blockchain could be used for distributed ledger technology

8 years ago

Microsoft Makes AI Move For Wand Labs

Reinforcements for malfunctioning Tay chatbot? Microsoft purchases AI app specialist Wand Labs

8 years ago

Google Opens European Machine Learning Centre

Zurich is now home to Google's Machine Learning research group in Europe

8 years ago

Apple Pushes To Make Siri’s AI More Useful And Reliable

ANALYSIS: Apple continues to improve Siri with support for new platforms and third parties, but data privacy remains a stumbling…

8 years ago

Google Reveals What Voters Are Searching For Ahead Of EU Referendum

Google shows off regional analytics on how UK citizens are looking to vote in the upcoming EU referendum

8 years ago

Intel Unveils VR And 4K-Focused 10-Core i7 CPU

Intel lifts lid on new Broadwell family at Computex, including 10-core Extreme Edition 'mega-tasker' ready for 4K, gaming, and virtual…

8 years ago

Google Has Its Very Own Chip For Artificial Intelligence

Google has been testing out a custom chip designed for artificial intelligence and machine learning that will work with TensorFlow

8 years ago

Microsoft, Google Back Royal Society ICT Teaching Push

Tech giants support Royal Society study into how to improve computer science teaching in schools

8 years ago