Here’s how you can watch the Wimbledon final live on Twitter July 10, 2016 Tennis fans will be able to easily watch Wimbledon online as Twitter is live streaming sports for the first time with live coverage of the British tennis tournament – a new feature that follows a digital rights deal to show NFL football games earlier this year. The social network is testing out the new video streaming feature with a page dedicated to the [...]
Could AI halt blindness? DeepMind and this London hospital are finding out July 5, 2016 DeepMind, the pioneering British artificial intelligence company owned by Google, is researching how the technology may help save people's sight in a new partnership with leading London eye hospital Moorfields. The firm's machine learning technology, which has already demonstrated its ability to beat humans at the chess-like game Go, will be used to analyse two [...]
Rise of the robots: How is the MBA responding? June 29, 2016 Do robots need MBAs? Since the application of robotics is largely confined to manufacturing and AI is still in its infancy, the answer now is obviously no. But in 30 years’ time? One LinkedIn author recently argued that business schools should be proactive and develop a “Robot MBA” for a future of intelligent non-human workers. Silliness [...]
Daphne Koller on Coursera in refugee camps, and why our education systems won’t help us in the future June 27, 2016 If you've never done a MOOC – a massive open online course – you likely know someone who has. Coursera is the biggest provider in the world. Launched just four years ago, it now has almost 20m learners worldwide, in 140 institutions across 28 countries. In the UK, there are over 600,000 users. Co-founder Daphne Koller was [...]
The European Union wants to give robots “electronic persons” status June 22, 2016 Say what you like about the European Union, but its timing is impeccable. The EU – yes, the organisation currently on trial by the population of its third-largest member – has just issued a draft report on robotics. Spoiler: it's nuts. The report, designed to provide recommendations to the EU's Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics, [...]
Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures invests $11m in London startup Lystable June 22, 2016 Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures has ploughed more cash into a startup founded in London which boasts Google among its clients. Lystable has landed $11m (£7.5m) from Thiel's fund, Goldcrest Capital and Spring Partners to fund its expansion in the US. The year-old startup provides software for companies to easily manage their contract and freelance workers, [...]
Robot rubbish: Most workers don’t fear automation June 21, 2016 The robots are coming, or so say experts, pundits and commentators. The World Economic Forum predicted that expanded automation and artificial intelligence (AI) would mark the fourth industrial revolution, which could lead to the biggest upheaval in the labour market in a century. Meanwhile, the Bank of England’s Andy Haldane has hypothesised that up to [...]
The UK is about to become a world leader in artificial intelligence June 20, 2016 With the news that Magic Pony has been acquired by Twitter, we are witnessing a crucial turning point – five of the world’s biggest technology companies have now purchased UK-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies. See Magic Pony Technology and Twitter, SwiftKey and Microsoft, VocalIQ and Apple, DeepMind and Google, and Evi and Amazon. Over the coming days [...]
Twitter just acquired very cool London-based AI startup Magic Pony June 20, 2016 Twitter has acquired a London-based startup, Magic Pony, in a bid to ramp up its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities, in a deal reportedly worth $150m (£102m). "Machine learning is increasingly at the core of everything we build at Twitter," said Twitter boss Jack Dorsey in a blog post today. "It’s powering much of the work [...]
Meet Rolls-Royce’s crazy driverless supercar and the glass-fronted Mini concept car of the future June 16, 2016 Rolls-Royce has created a super luxury car of the future ditching a chauffeur and any kind of driver entirely while serving the super rich with a robot concierge. The car delivers passengers to their destination in the style of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" with a canopy roof opening up to allow owners to stand up fully as [...]