Emma Sims

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automation

Met trials facial recognition tech

Today will see eight-hour trials take place in the British capital

18 Dec 2018

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supply chain management (SCM)

Amazon warehouse robot accident leaves 24 hospitalised

Warehouse robot punctures bear repellent resulting in the hospitalisation of 24 employees

7 Dec 2018

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analytics

Councils harvest people's data to tackle child abuse

Predictive analytics are being used by local councils in a bid to crack down on child abuse

17 Sep 2018

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Business strategy

Google staff rally against censored Chinese search engine

Google is set to develop a censored search engine for China, and its employees are none too happy about it

17 Aug 2018

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Mobile

Huawei pips Apple to second place in the smartphone market

Chinese phone manufacturer now the second-biggest smartphone purveyor in the world

2 Aug 2018

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privacy

London’s Met Police facial recognition trial farcical

A trial of the facial recognition technology resulted in a grand total of zero arrests

9 Jul 2018

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phishing

Mozilla to embed Have I Been Pwned in new security system

The tool will use Troy Hunt's system to detect accounts embroiled in known data breaches

26 Jun 2018

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Technology

NASA and Google AI have found a hidden planet

Google AI has accelerated an exciting discovery from the observatory around the star Kepler-90

15 Dec 2017

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Server & storage

SanDisk unveils world's largest microSD card

The 'breakthrough capacity' was unveiled at IFA 2017

1 Sep 2017

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Business strategy

How machine learning will take on everyday business

While healthcare and robotics hog the limelight, AI may make its biggest impact almost invisibly

20 May 2017