Big Data and Analytics
Ocado to build robotic fulfilment centre in Japan in new deal with retail chain Aeon
Ocado has signed another technology deal - this time taking its advanced warehouses and robotics technology to Aeon in Japan
New European Patent Office guidelines protect AI and machine learning 'inventions'
Withers & Rogers' Karl Barnfather examines the European Patent Office's 'Guidelines for Examination', which took effect on 1st November
Much of what's being sold as 'AI' today is snake oil, says Princeton professor
AI companies have raised millions of dollars in funding from investors - but their technology isn't really artificial intelligence
Organisations are struggling to make 'data-guided decisions', according to Computing Delta research
IT departments are providing the data, but the tools are lagging, Computing Delta research among IT leaders reveals
Machine learning meets diversity at Booking.com, an interview with chairwoman Gillian Tans
'We don't have a very diverse set of people working in AI and I think that's worrying and needs to be addressed'
Google in deal to transfer full medical records from US healthcare company, claims whistleblower
Google denies whistleblower claims that it plans to "mine patient information" and "sell or share data with third parties"
How Ted Baker's digital transformation helped drive sales
Global retailer Ted Baker found that its ecommerce platform alone wasn't sufficient to satisfy demanding customers in today's competitive environment
Why data isn't the new oil
Jason Foster, CEO and founder of data and analytics strategy consultancy Cynozure, explains that we need a new analogy for data, without some of the negative connotations of oil
Uber could licence Waymo self-driving technology following expert review
Uber warns that its future is dependent on the development of self-driving technology - and that it trails rivals in autonomous vehicles
Uber self-driving vehicle accident that killed pedestrian blamed on software flaws
Uber's autonomous vehicles behind 37 crashes in the previous 18 months
Mind-reading neural network decodes brainwaves to reconstruct images watched by a person in real time
By analysing the activity in the brain, the system recreates the images being seen by a person in real time
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman: 'Is it the end of the road for Hadoop? Well what do you think?'
'I've never seen anything sink as fast as Hadoop,' says Slootman
ICO to police: Live facial recognition 'raises serious concerns'
ICO calls for a statutory code of conduct to stop police misuse of live facial recognition technology
Business 5.0 is coming: The convergence of AI, IoT, blockchain, APIs, smart contracts and hybrid computing
Convergence of a plethora of new technologies will be key to the 'programmatic enterprise' of the future, says McKinsey and IBM advisor John Straw
System used to filter UK visa applications is biased, migrant rights groups claim
Legal case filed by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants will force the UK Home Office to explain how its AI system actually works
How Quantum technology could transform computing - perhaps…
There's still some time - and a number of challenges to overcome - before quantum computing becomes truly useful, reports Nic Fearn
Microsoft nicks $10bn JEDI Department of Defense cloud contract from AWS
Amazon 'surprised' to lose out to Microsoft in monolithic military cloud contract
Google researchers train AI to recognise smells based on molecular structure
Google researchers used a data set of about 5,000 molecules, identified and described by perfume makers, as a benchmark for their experiment
FiveAI launches the largest commuter trials for driverless cars on London streets
The trial will be conducted on a pre-defined 19 kilometre route
Blockchain could kill off the City of London and the taxes that pay for the NHS
Blockchain will render the City of London irrelevant, taking with it the personal and corporate taxes that effectively fund the NHS, warns Business 5.0 expert John Straw
Peter Cochrane: Non-linearity is the norm and defies simple thinking
Disciplines are becoming more specialised at a time when global challenges have become more complex. Solving them may require the non-linear calculations that only quantum computing can provide, says Professor Peter Cochrane
Garry Kasparov: Look again at Terminator - it's about humans making an alliance with older machines, and winning
Don't worry about apocalyptic, Terminator-style AI fears - everything will be fine in the end, says Kasparov at today's DTExpo
Vote now in the Computing Technology Product Awards 2019
Vote for your favourite technology products - and technology hero - in Computing's annual Technology Product Awards 2019
Amazon announces longer-range Sidewalk wireless network for IoT devices
Sidewalk will use low-bandwidth 900 megahertz spectrum to enable communication with IoT devices a mile away