Uber Advanced Technologies Group has released a report that outlines the company’s commitment to it’s self-driving vehicle strategy and what it’s doing to insure the safe development of autonomous cars. Titled ‘A Principled Approach To Safety’, the voluntary safety self-assessment was developed in line with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s guidance. The 70-page document…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says the company won’t walk away from its existing commitment with the Saudi Arabian royal family — the largest LP in its $100 billion Vision Fund — but the firm will wait on the outcome of an investigation into the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi before deciding on whether to continue the…
Internet of Business says Telecoms provider Avaya has had an eventful couple of years. In January 2017, the company filed for bankruptcy as it grappled with debts of $6.3 billion. But just 12 months later, it was able to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in a remarkable turnaround in its fortunes. The…
Nearly half of business leaders in the UK believe that artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the country so quickly that their business model won’t exist by 2023. That’s according to a new Microsoft report, Maximising the AI Opportunity, conducted in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London, and YouGov. The research surveyed 1,000 business leaders and 4,000…
Chinese drone manufacturer DJI is estimated to have more than a 70 percent share of the global drone hardware market. Competitors from Europe, Asia, and North America have fallen by the wayside, unable to keep up with the company’s rapid iteration, low prices and, more than anything, industry-leading technology. So it comes as no surprise that…
In March 2015, the then UK chancellor George Osbourne announced the Internet of Things UK Research and Innovation Programme. The initiative was to be led by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), with help from the Office for Life Sciences, Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Internet of…
Twitter has brought on its first-ever global director of culture and community, God-is Rivera. As global director of culture and community, Rivera will report to Global Head of Culture, Engagement and Experiential Nola Weinstein. Rivera previously led internal diversity and inclusion efforts at VMLY&R, a digital and creative agency. “As a black woman who has worked in…
Chinese tech giant Tencent has partnered with Intel to create artificial intelligence-enhanced cameras that provide insights into retail environments. The collaboration will initially see Tencent YouTu Lab and Intel offer two products: DeepGaze, an AI camera, and YouBox, a means of retrofitting exiting camera systems with AI capabilities. The DeepGaze AI camera analyses how shoppers…
Shouting “women’s rights are worker’s rights” and a number of other #TimesUp and #MeToo chants, upwards of 1,000 Google employees gathered at San Francisco’s Harry Bridges Plaza Thursday to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment and misconduct cases. Staffers from all of Google’s San Francisco offices were in attendance. An organizer who declined to…
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a semantic parser that learns through observation, mimicking a child’s language-acquisition process – with the potential to greatly extend computing’s capabilities. Traditionally, language-learning computer systems are trained on sentences annotated by humans that describe the structure and meaning behind words. These methods underpin web searches, natural-language…
