Big Data and Analytics
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
Autonomous weapons could 'accidentally' start the next world war, warns ex-Google engineer
Laura Nolan, who resigned from Google last year over military drone project, warns over 'killer robots'
Putting bugs in the system: the Natural History Museum is digitising 30 million insects
The Digital Collections Programme is a hive of activity
How Google uses secret 'push pages' to share personal details with advertisers
Combined with tracking cookies supplied by Google, push pages enable organisations to identify individual web browsers, claims Brave's Johnny Ryan
South Wales Police's facial recognition ruled lawful
Judicial review brought by Liberty concludes that the current legal framework governing police use of facial recognition is sufficient
The Natural History Museum is digitising the skeletons in its closet
How a decades-old mosquito corpse helped to understand the spread of Zika
Peter Cochrane: Is forgetting essential for learning?
Wouldn't it be great if you could remember everything you ever learnt, saw or heard? Actually, it wouldn't, writes Professor Peter Cochrane
Intel unveils 'Spring Hill' - its first artificial intelligence chip
Facebook has already started using Intel's new 'Spring Hill' AI chip, according to Intel
How Network Rail CIO Aidan Hancock is using data science to speed up your commute
How do you make trains run on time? It turns out you use a mixture of data science, analytics and cloud, according to Hancock
Peter Cochrane: AI and the emergent properties of good, bad and evil
Forget Asimov's 'Three Laws of Robotics', robots will almost certainly go off the rails at some point in the future - but they still won't be as bad as human beings
Facial recognition begins creeping roll-out across London with installation on Kings Cross estate and Canary Wharf set to follow
Question marks over GDPR opt-outs for facial recognition surveillance systems springing up across London
NHS to open national artificial intelligence lab to boost medical research
AI lab will connect researchers with tech companies to solve medical and other challenges faced by the NHS
Customers should share employees' view of their data, says Revolut's Lead Data Scientist
If data is oil, Revolut is giving everyone a drilling rig
BusinessGreen Technology Festival slated for December launch
Inaugural BusinessGreen Technology Festival will unite corporates, investors and clean tech start-ups to help drive the next phase of green technology deployment
US Bill introduced to ban 'addictive' social media features
Social media sites would have to track how long people spend on their platform and lock them out after a certain period
Microsoft announces general availability of Azure Security Centre for IoT
IoT Azure security tool can identify configuration issues before they can be used in a cyber attack
Anonymous data can be 'de-anonymised' to reveal people's real identities, researchers warn
Machine learning algorithm can identify 99.98 per cent of people in any anonymised dataset, claim Imperial College researchers
Microsoft invests $1bn in OpenAI to develop AI technologies for supercomputers
Non-profit co-founded by Elon Musk secures another $1bn in investment, this time from Microsoft
Elon Musk's Neuralink unveils brain-machine interface technology
Elon Musk wants volunteers willing to have their skull drilled in four places to try out Neuralink's brain-machine technology
IT security specialists need to look at IoT security in buildings in a completely different way, says Cundall director Chris Grundy
The construction industry still hasn't got to grips with the IT security challenges of IoT devices embedded in buildings
Peter Cochrane: Much of what we're told about quantum computing is nonsense
Articles and presentations on quantum computing are often completely wrong, warns Professor Peter Cochrane
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