British retailer John Lewis has revealed the five tech startups to be taken under its wing as part of its 12-week JLAB accelerator programme, with services of interest to the company including machine learning, the smart home, coding and more.
Rolls-Royce has showcased its latest luxury design, unleashing a futuristic concept vehicle known as the Vision Next 100 (codename 103Ex), claiming the business “anticipates the mobility demands of the luxury customer of the future”. Fancy taking this for a drive
London-based machine learning developer Magic Pony has been acquired by Twitter in what will “help build strength into teams with world-class talent,” according to the social network’s founder Jack Dorsey.
Once the preserve of large businesses, programmatic advertising is being made accessible to SMEs courtesy of Match2One. We talked with co-founder Mikael Kreuger about how the firm ensures you always target the right customer.
The best superheroes have a billionaire businessman alter-ego, so Mark Zuckerberg has taken inspiration from Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe and revealed a plan to build artificial intelligence similar to the tech found in the Iron Man movies.
Tech giant Apple has acquired a small company in Cambridge, which specialises in the voice machine interface – indicating both the weaknesses of Siri and where Apple is looking to improve the user experience.
By Paul Hennin
The battle between man and machines goes back centuries. Are they taking our jobs Or are they merely easing our workload Paul Hennin, director of marketing at Aerohive Networks, believes that it is the latter.
The co-founder of Apple has adjusted his previous prediction that robots could spell the end of humankind, instead suggesting we could be the family pets of the future.
Realeyes, a UK-based facial recognition company, has secured a €3.64m European Commission grant to evolve its technology and continue the mission to understand human emotions through artificial intelligence (AI).
