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Friday, November 25, 2016

Apollo software engineer Margaret Hamilton receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Amid all the publicity given to the more "famous" people recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom was Margaret Hamilto...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Real time avatar in Shakespeare's Tempest

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The Royal Shakespeare Company is putting on a groundbreaking production of The Tempest in which the sprite Ariel, a central character in th...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

McDonald’s To Open 25,000 Robot-Run Restaurants

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It looks inevitable that more and more jobs will be lost to robots in the foreseeable future. With the advent of self-driving vehicles it...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

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The potential danger or threat that AI may pose to society and even humanity itself has been in the news a lot lately. Now, "t hanks ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

UK Government releases report on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

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The UK Government's Science and Technology Committee undertook an inquiry into robotics and artificial intelligence.  Robotics and Aut...
Friday, October 14, 2016

Reputational damage

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A new phrase for many, "reputational damage", doesn't get much worse than this. Samsung's incendiary Galaxy Note 7  has be...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Do you have a Yahoo email account?

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It has been revealed that " Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming email...