Researchers from the University of Cambridge claim to have successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen at scale using just sunlight and biological enzymes, creating a potentially unlimited source of renewable energy. The process of semi-artificial photosynthesis could pave the way for hydrogen to be captured and converted into energy safely and at minimal cost,…
On Wednesday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will appear before Congress in the latest high profile hearings for tech on Capitol Hill. The main event will take place at 9:30 a.m. ET, as the pair of tech execs faces the defense and cybersecurity-minded Senate Select Intelligence Committee. Following that hearing, Dorsey…
Only one-third of senior executives in UK organisations say that their company insurance currently covers them for a security breach and for the financial impact of data loss, according to a new report. This is despite the fact that 81 percent agree that it is “vital” that their organisation is insured against information security breaches.…
Auterion, a startup that offers a drone operating system built on top of the popular PX4 open source software, has landed $10 million in seed funding. Backing the round is Lakestar, Mosaic Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, and Tectonic Ventures. The young Swiss company says the injection of cash will be used to work closely with the…
The West Midlands has been selected to become the home of the UK’s first multi-city 5G test bed, the government announced this morning. The multimillion pound trial of new high-speed connectivity will pave the way for the future rollout of 5G technologies across the UK, making the region the first in the country to be…
The VoCore2 is a Wi-Fi capable computer with a 580 MHz CPU and 128 RAM that supports video, USB, and Ethernet. And it plays Doom. That’s right: this is a computer you can easily swallow and allow your biome flora to play a hard core FPS while you slowly digest the package. The product started…
Diversified Chinese technology giant Baidu has launched a cloud-based tool, EZDL, that it claims makes it easy for anyone to design, build, and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms without writing any new code. The modular tool is available online now in beta, and combines three basic machine learning types – image classification, object detection, and…
Swiss startup Avrios reckons business mobility is going to get a whole lot more interesting as companies adopt more tailored mobility solutions, rather than sticking with the traditional one car per person model. And at the same time as businesses are seeking to accelerate their progressive cred by moving away from combustion cars to greener alternatives, new…
NEWSBYTE Evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is infusing even the most common applications comes with the news that Microsoft has developed Sketch2Code, an AI-powered Web design tool that, the company says, converts hand-drawn webpage mockups into functional HTML markups. In short, if you can sketch it, Microsoft’s AI can build it, and the aim is…
NEWSBYTE Evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is infusing even the most common applications comes with the news that Microsoft has developed Sketch2Code, an AI-powered Web design tool that, the company says, converts hand-drawn webpage mockups into functional HTML markups. In short, if you can sketch it, Microsoft’s AI can build it, and the aim is…
