Generative AI in software development and testing: Use cases & best practice

ChatGPT has made the power of generative AI accessible to all, and it’s something that is being widely embraced. A Gartner poll from May this year tells us that ChatGPT has prompted an increase in AI investment, with 70% of organisations saying that they were in ‘exploration mode’ with the tech, and VC firms investing

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Inpixon and Schauenburg Systems team up to sell real-time location technologies to mining companies in South Africa

Palo Alto, United States – Inpixon, the Indoor Intelligence company, announced a collaboration agreement with Schauenburg Systems, an original-equipment manufacturer of mine safety systems and equipment, to sell Inpixon’s real-time location technologies to mining companies in South Africa. Under the agreement the parties will aim to achieve sales of hundreds of thousands of nanoLOC chips and other core

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Akkio launches AI Data Stories to help companies understand their predictive models

Akkio, a no-code machine learning (ML) platform for modern sales, marketing, and finance teams, announced it has launched a new feature called Data Stories. Data Stories enable Akkio users to understand the inputs that are most predictive in driving the AI models they create.

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Making production processes more sustainable: How industrial software can simplify sustainability

In 2015, government leaders from around the world reached the Paris Agreement, pledging to keep global temperature increases to below two degrees celsius. Achieving this goal requires a significant shift in energy globally, both in terms of generation and use in energy-intense markets such as the industrial sector. Here, George Walker, managing director of Novotek UK

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VR means business: How organisations can harness the power of virtual reality

Evidence is building that virtual reality (VR) has the potential to supercharge corporate training, says Justin Parry, co-founder and COO of Immerse.

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Consumers would trust their energy suppliers more if they offered access to transparent cost breakdown

Lucid has unveiled new research which demonstrates a trust and transparency gap between consumer and supplier within the UK energy sector. The report, delivered in partnership with PwC, found that 74% of consumers would have greater trust in their energy supplier if they were offered access to a more transparent cost breakdown.

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IoT Tech Expo: Why the convergence of IoT and blockchain is driving transport and logistics

Recent reports suggest that major growth in the use of blockchain for IoT means the market is set to be worth more than $3 billion (£2.21 billion) by 2024.

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Levelling the playing field: how tech organisations can tackle the gender gap and promote workplace diversity

Where are all the women in tech? Research by PwC suggests just 15 per cent of current employees in STEM roles are women. Mary Hunter, winner of the IAMCP’s 2018 Women in Tech Leadership Award and the Nottingham Post’s Businesswoman of the Year,

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Digitalisation and the food and beverage industry

Wikipedia, the world’s largest free-content encyclopaedia, now has more than 41 million articles in 294 languages. If printed, the English articles alone would form an impressive, but unrealistic 2,512 volumes.

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Over 20% of Brits would shockingly replace MPs with robots

The automation of work, including the use of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), is expected to rapidly increase. In fact, recent research by think tank ‘Centre for Cities’ found that one in five jobs in Britain will fall victim to automation by 2030.

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Predicting the future

The fourth industrial revolution is well underway and as state-of-the-art technology drops in price, many more industries are benefiting from smart factories. As a recent PwC survey found 72% of companies expect to achieve advanced levels of digitisation by 2020, the reach of these technologies is only set to increase in 2018.

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Cyber threats are still being ‘brushed aside’ even after WannaCry and NotPetya, says AlienVault global survey

Just 16% of IT security professionals believe that their bosses and company boards have taken a greater interest in their roles as a result of the WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks of 2017. This is according to new research conducted by Unified Security Management and crowd-sourced threat intelligence specialist, AlienVault. The research, which surveyed 233 IT professionals

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SecureLink confirms opening a Cyber Defence Centre (CDC) in China

SecureLink – Europe’s independent cybersecurity and Managed Security Service provider, confirmed it is opening a Cyber Defence Centre (CDC) in Shanghai, China. Laws and regulations covering cybersecurity and data protection are rapidly increasing globally.

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Scared about supply chain cybersecurity? 5 reasons you aren’t scared enough- Part 2

We saw the 1st reason of supply chain cybersecurity in the Part 1 yesterday. Now we see the remaining reasons today. In today’s world, “common criminals, organised crime rings, and nation-states leverage sophisticated techniques to launch attacks that are highly targeted and very difficult to detect,”

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Three steps to IoT adoption for health insurers

Over the last couple of years, consumers have got on board with the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable technology in a big way, says Simon Perry, insurance expert, GMC Software.

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PwC deal extends Sierra Wireless’ reach into North American industrial C-suites in search of IoT ‘magic’

Talking exclusively to IoT Now at its 5th annual Innovation Summit in Paris today, René Link Sierra Wireless‘ chief marketing officer (CMO) and senior vice president of Corporate Strategy, tells Jeremy Cowan that when you put together the three ingredients of Device, Cloud and Connectivity flawlessly “something magical happens”.

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