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Editor’s Pick
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11 Oct
AR in art: Providing a new medium to explore mental health
This week Tumblr, in collaboration with grassroots mental health platform Made of Millions, has launched ‘Seen’, an exhibition that seeks to harness augmented reality (AR) to lend new expression to perceptions of mental health.
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10 Oct
Amazon’s sexist AI recruiting tool highlights the importance and challenge of training data
Amazon’s decision to scrap its AI recruiting tool after discovering that it was biased against women has shed light on the problems with acquiring effective training data, and why it’s so important to have good quality datasets.
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10 Oct
John Cleese: What technology has in common with comedy
What does technology have in common with comedy?
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10 Oct
Commercial space race: How close are Virgin Galactic, SpaceX and Blue Origin to taking tourists to space?
Sir Richard Branson is favourite to reach the stars first in the commercial space race, ahead of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, on-board Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two.
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10 Oct
Transforming diabetes monitoring with AI and deep learning
It was seeing a girl with diabetes that inspired medical doctor Eduardo Jorgensen to set up health tech company MedicSen, which applies AI solutions to diabetes monitoring.
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9 Oct
Google Plus shutting down is a “murky way to save face”
The news of Google Plus shutting down has drawn criticism from the technology industry, with experts accusing the search giant of taking the decision to mask the utter failure of the social network.
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9 Oct
Driverless and electric cars dominate at Paris Motor Show 2018
The automotive industry’s growing commitment to the environment and investing in new technology is taking centre stage at the Paris Motor Show 2018, where a large host of manufacturers are showcasing their latest innovations in electric vehicles and autonomous cars.
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9 Oct
Ada Lovelace Day 2018: Three women in STEM give their advice
Celebrated on the second Tuesday of October, today is Ada Lovelace Day.
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8 Oct
Spotify is ten: How the streaming service rocked the industry
Since its launch in Sweden in 2008, the world’s most popular music streaming service has arguably changed the way the world listens to music.
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8 Oct
IoT security: Why California’s weak password ban won’t solve the problem
The security of the Internet of Things (IoT) is a source of growing concern.
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5 Oct
Censorship-busting Intra app shows the duplicity of Google
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw has released Intra, an app designed to bypass blocks on sites imposed by repressive governments.
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4 Oct
Could Toyota and SoftBank disrupt the autonomous car industry?
Japanese tech giant SoftBank and car manufacturer Toyota are joining forces to take on the autonomous vehicles market, jointly joining the race to make autonomous vehicles a commercial reality.
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4 Oct
“Unprecedented” Russian cyberattacks announcement is just the start – and businesses should be prepared
The UK government’s announcement that the Russian military intelligence service GRU is behind a string of cyberattacks has rocked the world of politics.
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3 Oct
Transforming tech training in the Silicon Slopes: A visit to Salt Lake City’s Pluralsight
Walk down any street in Salt Lake City and the chances are that, in sharp contrast to the pancake-flat city centre, you’ll see picturesque mountains on the horizon.
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2 Oct
Elon Musk fraud: The meme king’s power is fading but Tesla’s future looks bright
It’s official: after being accused of fraud by The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Musk will now step down as Tesla chair.
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28 Sep
Could Oculus Quest help Facebook bring VR into the mainstream?
After much anticipation, Oculus has launched the last of its “first generation” virtual reality (VR) headsets: the Oculus Quest.
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24 Sep
The CGI models causing fear in the fashion industry
Fashion brands often cause controversy with the choice of models in their latest campaigns, but when French fashion house Balmain came under fire recently for the brands autumn 2018 collection, it wasn’t because their models were too thin or too fat but because they are not real people.
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18 Sep
UEFA Champions League: The growth of football’s biggest club tournament
The 2018-19 UEFA Champions League will get underway this evening.
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14 Sep
Brexit food security: An opportunity for vertical farming?
Farming in the UK is facing an uncertain time.
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12 Sep
What can we expect from the smartphone of the future?
With high-quality cameras, impressive processing power and even facial recognition, modern smart phones are sophisticated pieces of tech.
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7 Sep
How NASA CIO Renee Wynn manages IT above the clouds
Orbiting 36,000km miles above the Earth, over a dozen NASA satellites beam back more than 12 terabytes of data every day.
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6 Sep
AVATAR X: The programme bringing avatars to space
With Virgin Galactic aiming to launch the first commercial space flight as early as this year, space tourism looks like it could soon become a reality.
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6 Sep
How close are 3D printed organs to reality?
The financial year of 2017/18 saw the highest number of organs ever donated in the UK.
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3 Sep
88% of UK data breaches caused by human error, not cyberattacks
In the last two years reports of UK data breaches to the Information Commissioner’s Office have increased by 75%, according to research by risk solutions provider Kroll.
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29 Aug
Artificial intelligence and the future of politics
Trust in the British political system has been falling for decades.
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27 Aug
Could drone taxis take off? One expert gives his views
With smart cars increasingly common and self-driving cars getting ever closer to becoming a reality, the roads in major cities look set undergo a transformation.
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27 Aug
No killer robot ban a “danger to humanity” warns Noel Sharkey
There is a “real danger to humanity” if there is no ban on so-called killer robots, says professor of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics Noel Sharkey.
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24 Aug
Jeremy Corbyn’s public social media platform “won’t work”
The public social media platform proposed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in his 2018 Alternative MacTaggart Lecture this week has been met by damning criticism from technology industry experts.
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23 Aug
Move over GDPR: How a new ePrivacy regulation could affect businesses
The much-publicised General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has now been in force for nearly three months.
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22 Aug
Taking Machine Learning from theory to practice
In the last few years, Machine Learning has quickly gone from a niche subject to one with significant relevance to many companies and organisations.