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• February 02, 2022 02Feb2022 News

  MPs call on government to ‘push harder’ and ‘act faster’ amid online fraud epidemic

  MPs on the Treasury Committee want the government to act quickly to reduce the amount of money being stolen through online fraud Continue Reading

• February 02, 2022 02Feb2022 News

  British Council data exposed by third-party cyber failure

  The British Council entrusted confidential data on its students to a third-party and was let down Continue Reading

• February 02, 2022 02Feb2022 In Depth

  What neurodivergent people really think of working in cyber security

  Many firms are filling cyber security skills gaps by hiring neurodivergent talent – but more support is needed for neurodivergent cyber security professionals, writes autistic tech journalist Nicholas Fearn Continue Reading

• February 02, 2022 02Feb2022 News

  Saudi Arabia to invest billions of dollars in technology and startups

  Saudi Arabia announces $6.4bn investment in its tech sector as part of plans to diversify its economy Continue Reading

• February 02, 2022 02Feb2022 Blog Post

  Budibase low-code open source web dev, wanna be friends?

  Among the newer names adding their two-pennyworth to the noise in the low-code space is open source Budibase. Aligned to work in the web software application development space, Budibase (pronounced ... Continue Reading

• February 02, 2022 02Feb2022 News

  JustPark moves from AWS to take up space in the Google public cloud

  Parking space booking app JustPark claims shift in public cloud deployment strategy has reduced the system management overhead for its developers Continue Reading

• February 02, 2022 02Feb2022 News

  Ikea hopes to fill 150 tech roles across Europe this year

  Swedish furniture brand Ikea has plans to hire more than 150 tech and data workers across Europe in 2022 Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  IoT connectivity management market to be worth more than $31bn by 2026

  OEMs, enterprises and municipalities set to lead the charge in spend on devices allowing connectivity to be intelligently packaged for sale to IoT customers Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 Blog Post

  Idol thoughts

  HP, angry that it had to write down $5 bn on its purchase of Autonomy, has now made a breakthrough in the UK court. The court ruled that HP “substantially succeeded” in its claims against the ... Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Check Point buys Spectral to safeguard cloud development

  Check Point’s latest acquisition of Israel-based startup Spectral expands its developer-centric security toolset Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency appoints first CEO

  The government has named the first CEO of the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Astrocast announces commercial launch of bidirectional satellite IoT service

  Global nanosatellite internet-of-things network provider switches on service that it says will redefine the boundaries of IoT, enabling all businesses to benefit in any location Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  German fuel supplier taken offline in cyber attack

  Cyber attack against Germany’s Oiltanking, a major fuel logistics company, affects 13 distribution terminals across Germany, in an incident with echoes of last year’s hit on Colonial Pipeline Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Orange Spain claims largest 5G network deployment on 700 MHz band

  Global telco announces what it says is the largest 5G network deployment plan on the 700 MHz frequency band in Spain Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 Blog Post

  Codefresh combats 'stale DevOps' with pipeline-speed optimisations

  Code does go ‘stale’, of course. Software application development code (and many of the data reserves, pools, sets, marts, warehouses and lakes) that programmers engineer into the fabric of modern ... Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Bakkavor aims for more network bite with Neos Networks SD-WAN

  UK-based provider of fresh prepared food selects software-defined wide area network technology from growing connectivity provider to improve resilience and continue its digital transformation. Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 E-Handbook

  Top 10 Middle East IT stories of 2021

  Technology is being harnessed in two ways by these countries. An IT sector is being established with overseas markets in its sights, while technology such as artificial intelligence is being used to support other emerging industries in the region. ... Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 Blog Post

  Infrastructure-as-Code series - Tenable: The joy of enforced immutability

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Met Police faces legal action over Gangs Matrix

  Campaign group Liberty is taking legal action against the Met over its use of the Gangs Matrix, claiming it is driven by racial stereotypes and disproportionately affects people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Sweden’s Husqvarna expands IT outsourcing deal with HCL

  Swedish power tool maker expands its contract with Indian IT service provider as it continues on its digital journey Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding

  Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 Blog Post

  Companies need to embrace voice to promote empathy and intentionality at work

  This is a guest blogpost by Oliver Palihes, CEO at Aircall. It seems that, in recent years, messaging and video have become the de facto modes of communication for businesses looking to optimise ... Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Citrix joins Tibco in Vista enterprise IT portfolio

  Vista, the investment firm backing enterprise software business, has acquired Citrix to flesh out its hybrid work portfolio Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Over one-fifth of ransomware attacks target financial sector

  Newly published data reveals a significant uptick in cyber attacks against the financial services sector during the third quarter of 2021 Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Giganet, Anixter team to expand FTTP internet service to the UK

  Further momentum in UK full-fibre broadband market sees leading ISP entering into a multi-year agreement with subsidiary of Wesco International, to support the expansion of gigabit connectivity delivery across the UK Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 News

  Dubai’s fledgling drone programme gets another nudge

  Through a series of initiatives, Dubai is positioning itself to reap the benefits of a promising global market for drone technology Continue Reading

• February 01, 2022 01Feb2022 E-Zine

  How Ocado pushes technological boundaries

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to Ocado’s CTO about how the e-commerce company pushes technological boundaries. Our latest buyer’s guide looks at the importance and technical challenges of data integration. There’s a growing dispute over ... Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 News

  Nebulon SmartInfrastructure brings cloud-defined storage to datacentre

  Cloud-defined storage allows customers to build private clouds on-site, with pools of storage built from commodity hardware, Nebulon PCIe cards and its browser-based console Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 News

  NEC acquires Blue Danube Systems

  Open RAN comms technology proponent and provider swoops for mobile network tech supplier to enhance its 5G product portfolio and customer support capability Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 News

  UK has record year for tech IPOs in 2021

  Tech companies represented 29% of all UK initial public offerings last year, raising a record $6.6bn Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 E-Handbook

  Robotic Process Automation blends into AI for thoroughly modern ERP

  Robotic Process Automation has emerged in recent years as one way to modernise the ERP systems that run the entire gamut of business processes for many organisations. Download this e-guide to read more about how the advance of the robots continues. Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 News

  Huawei retains 5G RAN leadership

  As 5G flourishes across Asia-Pacific, analyst finds Chinese telecoms equipment and services giant is defying bans on its technology to claim leadership in 5G radio access networks Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 Blog Post

  Inspiring the next generation of data experts

  GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Steph Cullen, head of manufacturers at IRI and former gold medallist rower for team GB, shares her views on how schools and the fast-moving, consumer goods ... Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 News

  Last year sees growth in tech job adverts across UK

  The technology sector in England and Wales posted more job vacancies in 2021 than the entirety of British businesses did in 2020 Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 News

  Data on children of armed forces personnel exposed in breach

  Data on 4,142 children of serving armed forces personnel was exposed in a data breach at the Ministry of Defence Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 Blog Post

  Infrastructure-as-Code series - DataStax: Making data services as easy as code

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 News

  Nokia, China Mobile and MediaTek claim 5G standalone speed record

  Shanghai trial claimed to achieve new 5G standalone speed record of almost 3Gbps in downlink throughput Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 E-Handbook

  Top 10 cyber security stories of 2021

  Cyber security was once again top of the agenda for IT leaders in 2021, with a barrage of news and analysis making it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff and the genuine insight from the self-promotional nonsense. However, there were some ... Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 E-Handbook

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

  The 2021 datacentre news cycle has been dominated by stories about how demand for hyperscale datacentre capacity is continuing to boom, while market watchers grow increasingly concerned about how all this growth is affecting the environment. With ... Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 Opinion

  How apprenticeships are helping bridge the digital skills gap

  Apprenticeships are not only for young people – they can help make IT departments more diverse and inclusive, as well as plugging skills gaps, as DWP Digital has proved Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 Opinion

  Understand your cyber training ‘need’ before committing to a programme

  In-house or outsourced? What makes a good security training programme, and what questions should buyers ask when procuring training-as-a-service? Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 In Depth

  Data integration dogged by complexity and vital to business

  Integrating data is one of the thorniest challenges in business intelligence and analytics – achieving it is technically and organisationally complex, while it is gaining in importance all the time Continue Reading

• January 31, 2022 31Jan2022 News

  Google inks $1bn deal with Bharti Airtel

  The wide-ranging deal covers Google’s equity investment in Airtel, as well as efforts to spur cloud adoption and lower barriers to smartphone ownership Continue Reading

• January 30, 2022 30Jan2022 Blog Post

  Infrastructure-as-Code series - Shipa: Bridging the IaC–app disconnect

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 In Depth

  NRF review: What’s in store for retail tech in 2022?

  What themes will we be seeing in the retail tech space over the next year according to the 2022 National Retail Federation’s Big Show? Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 News

  Microsoft gives Nasa a lesson in timeshare optimisation

  A quantum-inspired algorithm has been used to help Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab schedule its Deep Space Network comms system Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 News

  British court rules in HP’s favour in Mike Lynch fraud case

  What next for Mike Lynch as judge rules that HP has ‘substantially succeeded’ in its complaint against him Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 News

  Cyber skills gap affecting data privacy practice, finds ISACA

  Organisations are struggling to fill both legal and technical privacy roles, with potentially damaging consequences, according to a report Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 In Depth

  Cloud storage data residency: How to achieve compliance

  There’s a conflict between cloud storage and the need to comply with local laws and regulations. We look at cloud data location, data residency, data sovereignty and data adequacy Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 In Depth

  Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust advances digital-first strategy

  Trust is making progress with its 10-year plan, centred around an electronic patient records system Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 News

  Korean researchers invent silk-based security device

  Experts from the Gwangju Institute of Science have built a digital security device based on natural silk fibres that they claim is practically unbreachable Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 Blog Post

  Infrastructure-as-Code series - Red Hat senior architect: Into DevOps version control 2.0

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 News

  Manchester United signs Extreme Networks to modernise in-stadium connectivity experience

  Football club sets out to transform the fan experience and increase its capability to deliver low-latency and secure digital services via fast and reliable Wi-Fi connectivity Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 News

  Leeds NHS Trust moves millions of patient records to the Microsoft Azure public cloud

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is moving its on-premise patient data system to the Microsoft Azure public cloud Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 News

  Smart connectivity to transform world experience within a decade

  Brain-controlled smart assistants, disease-detecting mirrors and digitally connected trees to become mainstream by 2030, by when the average person will interact with smart devices 4,800 times a day, claims study Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 News

  Verizon Business and Atos team on predictive analytics 5G edge solution

  Business communications services and products provider announces partnership with digital transformation firm to power predictive analytics solutions with private 5G multi-access edge computing for businesses, in particular those working in ... Continue Reading

• January 28, 2022 28Jan2022 Blog Post

  Low code goes open source: Appsmith is the Ferrari-factor

  People (well, British people, Americans and many others) think that the name Smith is a comparatively dull moniker to be blessed with and that Ferrari speaks of Italian flair and passion. In truth, ... Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  CISOs must get out in front of Ukraine cyber crisis, says NCSC

  The National Cyber Security Centre is urging UK organisations to take steps to bolster their cyber security resilience in response to the ongoing Ukraine crisis Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  UK spectrum sharing should be a spectrum policy priority, says UK SPF

  UK Spectrum Policy Forum and Ofcom makes call for mobile spectrum sharing to be a policy priority as demand is expected to increase in the coming years Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  DCMS taps Arqit for 5G project to provide Open RAN security by default

  Quantum platform-as-a-service provider joins government’s programme to drive diversity in comms technology supply with the aim of integrating a novel quantum encryption service to enable security by default Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  SAP full-year 2021: Revenue nudges up 1%, cloud growth up 17%

  SAP has announced a 2% rise in full-year 2021 revenue, to just under €28bn, while S/4 Hana customer base increased by 18% to 18,800 Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  Lack of tech skills is delaying projects

  Projects have been delayed over the past six months because of a lack of appropriate skills, with half of managers unable to find the workers with the necessary tech skills, survey finds Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  Novel phishing campaign highlights need for MFA, says Microsoft

  Microsoft details a new multi-stage phishing campaign that only affects victims without multifactor authentication in place Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  Barclaycard customers increase contactless spending following limit rise

  Barclaycard customers have increased their contactless card spending by 40% with most of their card payments using the technology Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  Microsoft uses Q2 2022 earnings to delve into metaverse

  Company’s CEO sees a role for Microsoft that takes the metaverse beyond gaming and into the business sphere Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 Blog Post

  Infrastructure-as-Code series - OutSystems: The road to an ‘intentive’ IaC

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  Nightmare Log4Shell scenario averted by prompt, professional action

  Prompt and professional community response to the Log4Shell disclosure means the dangerous and widespread vulnerability has not been exploited to the extent many had feared Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  Bank account switching accelerates as consumers choose digital services

  Surge in UK consumers changing current account providers is a sign that digital banking services are eating into the traditional sector Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  Orange Belgium, La Grand Poste create 5G Lab in Liège

  After opening next-generation mobile laboratory in Antwerp, inviting companies to discover, test and develop innovative use cases on standalone network technology, telco signs up Wallonia tech hub as customer Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 In Depth

  Refrigeration firm freezes legacy backup for one Cohesity cluster

  France-based Clauger had reached limits of capacity and complexity with multi-supplier legacy backup, so moved to one Cohesity cluster and gained restores that took mere minutes Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  Imperial College London embarks on cloud security research push with Abu Dhabi tech hub

  Imperial College London is embarking on a three-year project with an Abu Dhabi-based group of researchers to find ways for datacentre operators and cloud providers to secure their infrastructure Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 Blog Post

  The road less travelled paves the path to stealth disruption

  During the recent Ocado Re:Imagined event, the company’s founder and CEO, Tim Steiner, discussed how stealth disruptors were used to invent something he described as “really radical”. Really ... Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 In Depth

  Navigating PIPL: European businesses plot their next steps into China

  How does China’s strict new Personal Information Protection Law impact European businesses? Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 In Depth

  Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Setting strategy and developing plans

  In the second in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we look at how to formulate a DR strategy and develop detailed DR plans for your organisation, while taking cloud services into account Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 Opinion

  Security Think Tank: Focus on ‘nudging’ to build effective cyber training

  In-house or outsourced? What makes a good security training programme, and what questions should buyers ask when procuring training-as-a-service? Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  City Fibre full-fibre network goes live in Thames Valley

  UK’s largest independent network provider aims to bring much-awaited gigabit connectivity to Reading and Slough areas Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  Umbrella company cyber attacks prompt fresh calls for sector regulation to protect contractors

  With the umbrella company industry increasingly finding itself under attack from cyber criminals, contracting market stakeholders embark on a fresh round of calls for the industry to be regulated Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 News

  Ocado showcases 3D printing innovation

  Having delivered its first orders 20 years ago, Ocado is now reinventing the business process for online grocery delivery Continue Reading

• January 27, 2022 27Jan2022 E-Handbook

  Top 10 Benelux stories of 2021

  At the heart of Europe, the Benelux region commands a strategically important position in connecting the continent to the world. The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg also have what is needed for an advanced tech sector. They are relatively rich ... Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  CORT deploys IoT to monitor indoor air quality

  New Zealand community housing provider is rolling out sensors and analytics software to track the air quality of its premises Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 E-Handbook

  Top 10 Nordic IT stories of 2021

  The Nordic region offers the world a melting pot of tech, with its huge traditional industries and world-leading tech startup hubs. It might be a lot smaller in terms of investment and people, but the Nordic region is emulating the US’s Silicon ... Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 Blog Post

  Mr 500,000 Chips

  We recently saw a TikTok of the new guy on Dragons’ Den explaining the virtues of obtaining enough money to own a private jet: to maximise the number of what he refers to as his 500,000 chips – the ... Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  More intel emerges on WhisperGate malware that hit Ukraine

  Security experts have been poring over the WhisperGate malware with which alleged Russia-backed entities targeted Ukrainian government websites Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 In Depth

  Stakes raised for hybrid cloud as complexity challenges continue

  Hybrid cloud may be with us for some time, so what does that mean for cloud provision in 2022? Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  Storage tech brief: Look out for PCIe gen 5 drives in 2022

  PCIe 5.0 will offer bandwidth up to 128GBps per drive. We look at what’s available and when, including in the new EDSFF form factor, as well as looking forward to PCIe gen 6 Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  PwnKit bug endangers Linux distributions worldwide

  Qualys researchers share intel on a memory corruption vulnerability in a program installed by default on every major Linux distribution Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  MPs to debate landmark IoT security law

  Proposed bill mandates tighter protections for connected products, and adds new rules for broadband roll-out into the bargain Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  BT and Nokia trial Open RAN in UK

  Partners will develop and deploy test of open radio access network system to enhance mobile broadband experience Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  Space junk revealed by University of Texas graph database

  Aerospace engineers, led by space environmentalist Moriba Jah, at The University of Texas at Austin have built a graph database, AstriaGraph, to track space junk that is a threat to life on Earth Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  Dutch education anticipates quantum technology

  Dutch academic talks about the Netherlands’ role in a pan-European quantum computing project as university investigates the technology’s possibilities Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  Should IT leaders plan for the quantum computing era?

  Quantum computing is still at an early stage of development, but there are a handful of use cases where nothing else matches the horsepower it offers Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  EY to open Neuro-Diverse Centre of Excellence in Manchester

  Professional services firm EY is launching a Neuro-Diverse Centre of Excellence in the UK to create a perfect working environment for neuro-diverse tech innovators Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 Blog Post

  Infrastructure-as-Code series - Druva: A clear path to the virtualised app stack

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 Blog Post

  G-Drive ArmorATD by SanDisk Professional

  Back in the day (and we’re talking when Windows 95 was big news), we used to sit around in software vendor Proof-of-Concept labs looking at what should be physically possible given the current ... Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  Appetite rising for network as a service

  Study from edge-to-cloud networking provider reveals digital transformation in the post-pandemic era is drawing IT leaders towards network models that are more agile and adaptable Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  Demands on Fujitsu to contribute to £1bn Horizon scandal compensation costs

  Fujitsu cannot hide away as taxpayers pick up the bill for the Post Office scandal triggered by its IT system, say peers Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  TigerGraph roars into APAC

  The graph database technology supplier is approaching the region with a solution-based strategy and partnering with universities to grow local capabilities Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  IBM fourth-quarter results show hybrid refocus

  Big Blue continues its journey to rebuild its business around hybrid cloud platforms, software infrastructure and consulting services Continue Reading

• January 26, 2022 26Jan2022 News

  Vodafone UK to begin 3G switch-off in 2023

  UK mobile operator gives notice that it will begin to retire its legacy network in a year’s time, with 4G and 5G networks to get coverage and speed boost from repurposing of 3G spectrum Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  Icelandic research could revolutionise AI

  Icelandic team is researching potential artificial intelligence that will not choke when faced with the unknown Continue Reading