Bank of England and US Reserve among those pondering own digital dollars China has announced a significant new trial of its digital currency, co-incidentally on the same day influential central banks laid out their plans for a similar effort.…
Lees meerUS military sticks techno-specs on crack canines in command experiment The US Army will give military dogs augmented-reality goggles and walkie-talkies to work out whether the technology can help them better assist soldiers on the battlefield.…
Lees meerSomeone's got to wrangle all the automation now Microsoft and pals have joined the act Open source bot orchestration vendor Camunda has rolled out its latest platform update, which includes features designed to centrally wrangle bots from the multit…
Lees meerPrivate equity funding stalls amid COVID-19 Canalys Forum 2020 Some Internet of Things projects are stalling, trapped in what analyst Canalys terms as a "proof-of-concept hell," though it believes the limiting factors are cultural rather than techn…
Lees meerNetizens have been obliviously chatting with software for the past 10 days Someone used OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating software to write a spree of posts on Reddit, convincing people the missives were penned by a real person, and banking thousands o…
Lees meerLet the chips fall where they may AMD is said to be in advanced talks to buy Xilinx in a deal set to top $30bn.…
Lees meerRaising inevitable concerns over protection of patient data NHS England is tendering for AI technologies in deals worth up to £15m to help guide the treatment of stroke victims while the health service groans under the strain of coronavirus.…
Lees meerLDMIA sp!, {die, die, die} Arm DevSummit Arm has set the date from when its high-end smartphone and laptop-grade Cortex-A processor cores will go fully 64-bit only.…
Lees meerWe'll be nice post-merger, bosses pledge at confab Arm DevSummit Nvidia and Arm are confident their $40bn proposed merger, set to be the largest deal of its kind in the semiconductor world, will be approved by regulators, and the duo look forward t…
Lees meerDept of Labor demands proof Windows giant isn't making 'illegal race-based decisions' in diversity push After Microsoft vowed to double its number of Black and African American bosses and senior staffers, the US government challenged the policy as p…
Lees meerTech industry may limber up for war The Trump administration has announced it will place new restrictions on the H-1B work visa program, such as recomputing minimum salary levels and narrowing eligibility for foreign workers.…
Lees meerOffshore electricity production target doable, says expert, but we need to decarbonise transport and heating too The UK government has committed to increasing offshore wind energy production from 30GW to 40GW by 2030 amid confusion over what it mean…
Lees meerWe sat through the full day so you didn't have to GTC 2020 Nvidia on Monday launched its first ever virtual GPU Technology Conference, taking place online over the course of this week across multiple timezones.…
Lees meerLet's just go back to human-selected cropping, eh? In an attempt to fix Twitter’s problematic automated image-cropping tool, its engineers said the software will in future simply rely less on AI algorithms.…
Lees meerThis year’s conference is slimmed down, highly practical – just like you Event There’s one thing that hasn’t been disrupted over recent months. Machine learning and AI continue to push their way into the mainstream, and are helping provide answers …
Lees meerPlus: IBM shares its ML know-how in schizophrenia fight In brief AI software designed to monitor students via webcam as they take their tests – to detect any attempts at cheating – sometimes fails to identify the students due to their skin color.…
Lees meerGuess which option this electric truck dreamer chose Video Nikola Motor Company has demanded the removal of videos posted by the embattled electric vehicle maker's critics that incorporate its ridiculed promotional footage of its Nikola One truck.…
Lees meerOpen-source projects aim to give researchers, startups a helping hand IBM has published two open-source artificial intelligence projects it hopes will help astronomers better deal with space junk – and encourage startups to circle Earth with swarms …
Lees meerForty minutes of picture analysis has been slashed to just five seconds NASA says its new crater-hunting AI system has found its first evidence of a previously unseen meteorite strike on Mars, needing just five seconds to clock the potential crash s…
Lees meerEarlier ban on H-1B, H-2B, J and L passes ruled an overstep of presidential power, middle-finger to Congress President Trump's proclamation in June that barred companies and other organizations from bringing in foreign workers into the US under vari…
Lees meer'We are on a mission to create as much understanding about algorithms' The City of Helsinki, Finland, and the City of Amsterdam, Netherlands, have introduced online AI registries that offer a glimpse into the workings of the algorithms and AI system…
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