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Microsoft and Facebook team up on open-source AI
In a change of course, Microsoft is to start working more closely with Facebook on open-source AI. The two companies had previously been competing,...
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Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Ericsson, Einride, Telia connecting self-driving trucks with 5G
Networking provider Ericsson and Swedish telco Telia, in partnership with autonomous transportation company Einride, are demonstrating how driverless trucks can be enhanced with 5G...
Finance & Insurance
Banks partner on first syndicated loan using blockchain
Spanish bank BBVA has partnered with co-lenders MUFG of Japan and BNP Paribas of France to arrange a syndicated loan using the Hyperledger and Ethereum blockchains.
€150m was...
Transportation
Autonomous cars: Uber reveals ‘valuable lessons’ in safety report
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...
Energy
Ricardo and partners get major UK EV battery tech project underway
Global engineering consultancy Ricardo is working with researchers at Ilika, UCL and the Centre for Process Innovation to develop a solid-state lithium-ion battery for...
Health
Wearable sensor tracks blood-oxygen levels for real-time analysis
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a wearable sensor capable of mapping blood-oxygen levels through the skin. The device could be used...
IoT & Edge Technology
Intel & Tencent team up on AI-enabled cameras for retail
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...
Data & AI
MIT researchers develop AI that learns language like a child
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...
