Algorithms

Regulator reveals algorithmic secrets of China’s Big Tech companies

Some of the largest tech companies in China have had the algorithms they use to personalise and promote their products…

Gov’t Cautiously Welcomes Proposal to Sell more Public Data

The government has cautiously welcomed proposals by the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee to "realise more value" tied…

Donald Trump, Human Rights Watch in Unlikely One-Two Attack on Google

US President Donald Trump today deleted two Tweets that slammed Google for allegedly favouring certain media outlets, saying "96% of results…

The Race for Quantum Supremacy: A Little Help from 75,000 Friends

To build a quantum computer, you need temperatures colder than interstellar space, the ability to keep Schrödinger's Cat both dead…

Honda dream of driverless cars driven by unicorn

Not one to be left out of the race, Honda has been quietly making strides in the drive to build…

UK students earn top marks from Microsoft for drone safety solution

A group of 14 students from Imperial College London have been credited by Microsoft with solving the serious problem of…

Machine learning and robotics to take 30% of bank jobs

Technologies including machine learning and robotic process automation are set to eliminate up to 30 percent of human bank jobs,…

Oracle bets on supervised machine learning for cybersecurity edge

At Infosecurity Europe 2017, you couldn't escape the buzz of what will may soon become the next great battle on…

Tim Berners-Lee calls on Facebook, Google to fight fake news

The inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has issued a damning report of the way in which misinformation…