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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  CIO interview: Chris Barnicott, chief technology officer, SSE

  Energy supplier’s CTO is driving innovation through AI, augmented reality and robotic process automation while still keeping the business running

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  Gartner finds Emea CIOs more ahead on digital than peers elsewhere

  Gartner’s annual global CIO survey finds Emea CIOs driving digital transformation programmes to a greater degree than their peers in the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  BEIS to fund five healthcare AI innovation centres

  Five healthcare innovation centres will receive a total of £50m in funding to use artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis and treatment of diseases

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  APAC enterprises, analysts weigh in on IBM-Red Hat deal

  Mega-deal could accelerate adoption of open source software and extend the reach of OpenStack and OpenShift across the region

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Professor Brian Cox discusses aliens and the risks of tech advances

  In an entertaining discussion at VMworld, Brian Cox raised questions over why technologically advanced societies don’t exist elsewhere in the universe

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Automation and CSR are driving reskilling process for UK plc, says Cisco

  UK business leaders are planning to make dramatic changes to their organisations between now and 2020, according to a new report from Cisco

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  Robots deliver savings for Dutch postal service PostNL

  Dutch delivery company PostNL is reaping huge efficiency savings by using robotic technology to automate time-consuming administrative tasks

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  NHS to use predictive tech to prevent illnesses

  Health secretary Matt Hancock wants to use technology to predict disease and stop people falling ill, with AI and genomics having the ‘potential to change everything’

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  Future Decoded 2018: How Seadrill uses IoT 3km undersea

  Sensors on deep sea rigs are part of Seadrill's digital transformation strategy, which combines advanced analytics, the internet of things and machine learning

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Alexa to manage Aerohive Wi-Fi networks

  Access networking supplier Aerohive is to add Alexa skills to its HiveManager network management suite

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  SAP’s Atzberger vaunts front to back office capability

  Alex Atzberger, president, SAP Customer Experience, recently went through the company’s customer-focused software strategy with Computer Weekly

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  International Space Station runs HPE Apollo supercomputer

  The first off-the-shelf supercomputer to run in space, Apollo 40, will be used for local number crunching and artificial intelligence applications

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Robotic delivery service hits the streets of Milton Keynes

  Following extensive testing and a limited commercial roll-out in campus enterprise environments, Estonian robotics firm Starship Technologies is launching a direct-to-consumer robot delivery service in Milton Keynes

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Microsoft chief urges industry to focus on ethics and privacy

  Businesses must focus on GDPR and ethical AI if they are to become software firms, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Inside Schneider Electric’s Batam smart factory

  The French energy management and automation firm has nearly halved material wastage by applying smart manufacturing technologies at its Indonesia plant

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Future Decoded 2018: Adopt AI or get left behind, Microsoft warns

  Research shows business leaders see artificial intelligence and machine learning as key to enabling them to adapt to market disruption

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Why businesses must take a strategic view of automation

  For many CIOs, robotic process automation promises quick wins, but businesses should also take a longer-term view to drive digitisation

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Chancellor Philip Hammond’s 2018 Budget dishes out £1.6bn for ‘advanced’ tech and innovation

  The 2018 Budget promises £1.6bn to fund “advanced technologies” such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, £200m for rural broadband and £150m for tech fellowships, along with plans to impose a digital services tax for web giants

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Retail tech spending will grow 3.6% globally in 2019, predicts Gartner

  Global spending on technology in the retail sector is set to grow by 3.6% in 2019, according to predictions by Gartner analysts

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Finnish city Espoo trials artificial intelligence for community support

  The authorities for Finnish city Espoo are testing out AI technology to help them target services at the residents who need them most

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Philips looks to artificial intelligence to train its workforce

  Healthcare company is looking to AI, chatbots and learning playlists to help staff learn new skills more quickly as it adapts changing business priorities

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Firms will use AI to automate HR processes within two years

  Companies are gearing up to automate HR processes with artificial intelligence and machine learning, while at the same time battling with outdated IT systems

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Nordic banks target SME customers with fintech services

  Traditional Nordic banks are slimming down workforces as they turn increasingly to technology-based service delivery, and some are linking up with small fintech companies to deliver online products.

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Oracle bullish on growth in ASEAN

  Enterprise technology juggernaut Oracle claims traction in cloud applications and growing interest in its cloud-based autonomous database service in Southeast Asia

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Autonomous taxi trials underway in Dubai

  Dubai’s transport authority has started road testing the region’s first autonomous taxi, designed in partnership with Dubai Silicon Oasis and DG World

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  CTO interview: Proving new technology at Bloomberg

  We speak to Shawn Edwards, global chief technology officer at Bloomberg, about identifying and nurturing great ideas

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Oracle Open World 2018: CEO Mark Hurd says SAP ERP customers will defect

  Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd opined at Open World that SAP ECC6 customers will defect, in some measure, to Oracle in preference to S/4 Hana

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  HP ties up with Singapore university on Industry 4.0

  The personal computing and printer giant has opened a research facility at Nanyang Technological University to advance digital manufacturing technologies

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Interview: Steve Grobman, McAfee CTO shares his views on some burning security questions

  Cyber security technology innovator and veteran Steve Grobman shares his views on adversarial artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography and security for next-gen tech

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Igneous enhances unstructured data management product

  Specialist Igneous allows customers to backup and archive, search, manage, move and handle large sets of unstructured files that mainstream NAS can find difficult to handle

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Software suites will dominate the business applications market

  Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd contends that having a common user interface and the ability to support data flows across a business are key capabilities that will spur the dominance of software suites over time

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  OpenWorld18: Ellison declares seek and destroy mission for database

  At OpenWorld 2018 in San Francisco, Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison led on the putative resilience of the supplier’s “autonomous” database to cyber security threats

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Government to invest an extra £215m in UK innovation centres

  The extra funding will be given to the Catapult network of innovation centres, focusing on digital, medicines discovery, future cities and transport systems

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Cab firm to map 250,000 miles of London roads for CAVs

  Cab operator Addison Lee has teamed up with CAV software specialist Oxbotica to start preparing the streets of London for self-driving cars

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Zeppelin uses Splunk for pre-emptive maintenance

  German construction equipment rental firm Zeppelin has been using Splunk to predict when its machinery will need maintenance before it breaks down

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  McAfee combining threat intel with AI

  Simulations show that threat intelligence and artificial intelligence is a powerful combination, according to McAfee’s technology head

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Postal delivery robots trialled in Norway

  The Norwegian postal service is testing out the value and viability of robots delivering mail to homes and businesses

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Chinese insurance giant extends cloud service to other sectors

  Ping An is opening up its cloud service to more sectors, including real estate and automotive, in its efforts to become a technology company

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Amazon to open Manchester R&D centre and create 1,000 skilled jobs

  Online retail giant will open a new office in Manchester and expand others to house 1,000 new skilled research and development employees in the UK

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  SAP Q3 2018: Cloud revenue up 39%

  SAP’s Q3 2018 results show cloud revenue now at 22% of total and indicate momentum. S/4 Hana customers number 9,500

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Dubai Health Authority unveils virtual health app for GP consultations

  Health authority adopts new technology as part of the Dubai Future Accelerators initiative

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  There is more to fintech than meets the eye

  Financial technology goes way beyond the flashy apps facing consumers and into the depths of the back office

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Zero-trust security model gaining traction

  The zero-trust model of security is finally gaining traction as security professionals tap into new tools and executive buy-in to support this approach in an effort to improve security posture and practices

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hortonworks CTO weighs in on Cloudera merger

  Besides marrying technologies from Hortonworks and Cloudera, the two companies could also come up with new product components after their merger is sealed

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Big expectations, huge presence: Gitex 2018 opens

  Artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality are all in the spotlight at Gitex Technology Week 2018 in Dubai

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Atos and Google open London-based digital innovation centre to boost enterprise adoption of AI

  Atos and Google follow up the news of their global joint push to increase enterprise use of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies by opening London-based innovation centre

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  ASOS launches voice shopping on Google Assistant

  Online fashion brand introduces voice shopping service to help customers navigate its thousands of products more easily

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  AI is no silver bullet for cyber security

  A security expert has called for businesses to manage the risks of adopting new technologies and improve their cyber hygiene, rather than see artificial intelligence as a panacea for their security woes

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Highways England demonstrates connected cars in Kent

  Connected cars are being demonstrated on roads in Kent as part of a project to improve safety and improve traffic flows

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Robots in the workplace supported by 81% of business chiefs

  Robotic process automation continues to be taken up by more organisations – but despite proven benefits, those that already use it are struggling to scale it up