It will never happen to me: Some rules are required to protect society from unintended consequences of AI systems

Since Asimov wrote his Three Rules of Robotics in 1942, philosophers have debated how to ensure that autonomous systems are safe from unintended consequences. As the capabilities of AI have grown

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The future is wireless: Should we still care about cables?

As the world goes wireless, Indi Sall, technical director, NG Bailey’s IT Services division asks if the days of the wired network are numbered. Compared to a few years ago,

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Mitigating IoT transduction attacks

There are serious risks to modern-day sensors through “transduction attacks” according to research conducted jointly by Kevin Fu from the University of Michigan, and Wenyuan Xu from Zhejiang University. The

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Retailer spending on AI to grow nearly fourfold, reaching $7.3bn by 2022, says Juniper Research

A new study from Juniper Research has found that global retailer spending on AI will reach $7.3 billion (€5.87 billion) per annum by 2022, up from an estimated $2 billion (€1.61 billion)

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Five product trends to keep an eye for improvement of new or future iterations of products

You can always count on change as a constant in the Internet of Things (IoT). Here, David Grammer, PTC UK’s senior vice-president, describes five product trends we should keep an eye

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AI and digital assistants to surge in 2018, IHS Markit says

As they become more ubiquitous in homes and in various consumer electronics products, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital assistants are likely to be two of the major overarching themes at

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Bsquare partners with Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft Power BI to help drive and share industrial IoT data visualisations

Bsquare, a provider of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions, announced new DataV software integrations with Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft‘s Power BI that allow industrial organisations to quickly create and

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DTS Play-Fi announces wireless speakers to support Works with Amazon Alexa

DTS, a global provider in high-definition audio solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Xperi Corporation, is pleased to announce the first DTS Play-Fi®-enabled wireless speakers to support the Works with Amazon

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Loyalty or lock-in? Most smart speaker users won’t budge from Amazon or Google

More than two thirds of current owners of Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers are planning to buy another smart speaker within the next six months, according to the

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With a modern data platform, any CIO can turn information into intelligence

It’s been more than a decade since we first heard the phrase “data is the new oil.” But while this idea may well define the next generation of business, there’s

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The season of voice-based personal assistants

One of the hottest gift ideas this holiday season are virtual assistants specifically those with a voice user interface (VUI).These handy devices are becoming increasingly common in our daily lives

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In IoT size matters, today more than ever

As IoT and other consumer devices such as wearables shrink to meet a “right-sized” form factor for a variety of applications, the size of the components that go inside increasingly

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Smart audio hardware revenues to exceed $10 billion by 2022, as audio brands challenge Amazon Echo

A new report by Juniper Research found that revenues from smart audio devices like the Amazon Echo and Sonos One will grow from an estimated $2.5 billion (€2.13 billion) in

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Number of consumers considering Artificial Intelligence–enabled devices for holiday shopping doubles

SAP SE reports that nearly four out of 10 consumers who own in-home assistants are considering using them for holiday shopping this year — to purchase gifts for others (16%),

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Cloudera announces the upcoming beta release of Cloudera Altus Analytic DB

Cloudera, Inc., the modern platform for machine learning and analytics, optimised for the cloud, announced the upcoming beta release of Cloudera Altus Analytic DB. Cloudera Altus Analytic DB is the

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Delphix announces integration with Amazon RDS, accelerating application development on the cloud

Delphix, the company that has changed the dynamics of managing and consuming data, announced integration of the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) into its core platform. Enterprises can now

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