AI
IBM's Project Debater holds its own against puny human arguments
'The motion is, free coffee for all sentient robots'
Amazon wants to automate your hotel stay with Alexa for Hospitality
AI helper will let guests control room functions and order room service
Robots could replace migrant workers as Brexit shortages bite
Could your next colleague be a bot?
Brit cops face backlash over 'intrusive' automated facial recognition tech
Remove the tech or face the courts, threaten privacy advocates
Mozilla 'Scout' leaks as a voice-controlled version of Firefox
Mozilla says it's 'too early to say' (so there may well be something to say soon)
MIT boffins create AI that can see through walls
Could this be the precursor to pervert robots?
Microsoft fixes Cortana flaw that let hackers bypass Windows 10's lock screen
Long-standing 'always listening' flaw in Cortana among 49 patched vulnerabilities
Uber might be working on AI tech that knows when you're drunk
Drivers could refuse to pick up people who've had a skinful
Amazon Echo factory workers were being paid 'less than half' living wage
China Labour Watch and Observer insider reports 'slumped' and 'exhausted' staff
USA's AI-focused Summit supercomputer takes 'world's fastest' crown from China
But China still has more supercomputers on the Top 500 list
NHS should embrace automation to save £12.5bn a year, says Lords report
Carebots could save up to 10 per cent of the NHS's annual budget
Google sets out its ethics on AI collaboration, then riddles it with caveats
We won't unless we feel we should and its not going to annoy too many people
Amazon's Fire TV Cube can control your telly while Alexa talks at you
Could YOU beat The Cube?
Alexa and Google Assistant might be coming to the Xbox One
More opportunities to yell at your games console than ever before
Nvidia's Jetson Xavier claims to be 'world's first' computer for robotics
The SoC packs a processor suite to make he dumbest of machines smart
Google Assistant used to create gun-totin' AI art
It's less about how, more about the ethics of why
AI systems outperform humans at spotting skin cancer
Clever tech could help reduce unnecessary operations
Nvidia's HGX-2 fuses high-performance and AI computing into one platform
A load of power is on tap for training and fuelling clever tech
UK won't have a say in European AI or data protection rules after Brexit
Blighty will be subject to EU rules, but have no way to influence them
Microsoft's Xiaoice bot can fool humans into thinking they're talking to a person
Rise of the chatty robots
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 710 chip brings high-end AI smarts to mid-range mobiles
10nm mobile processor claims '30 per cent' boost over the Snapdragon 660
Microsoft's Satya Nadella reckons the world's a computer thanks to AI and IoT tech
Redmond's boss wants Microsoft to use Azure to connect all the globe's IoT stuff
Nvidia's AI-powered robots learns like humans do
The AI likes to watch.....
Acer becomes first PC maker to bring Alexa to laptops
Amazon's AI assistant will arrive on existing laptops starting this week
Microsoft snaps up Semantic to make Cortana seem a bit less robotic
Is talk cheap? We don't know they didn't tell us the financials
Theresa May reckons AI will help cut cancer deaths by 2033
PM wants to see smart tech reduce cancer-related fatalities by 22,000 per year
Google Duplex will warn anyone it calls that they are being recorded
No News of the World shenanigans here
Apple flogged an estimated 600,000 HomePod speakers in Q1
Firm manages to bag just six per cent of the fledgeling market
Alexa pushes UK digital radio ahead of analogue for the first time
Could revive the FM shutdown debate once more
Facebook flushes 583 million fake accounts from its social network
Millions of incidences of hate speech, violent and sexual content got purged
Honor 10 official in Blighty with AI cameras and ultrasonic fingerprint sensor
And it's available to buy today from £399 SIM-free
Google employees are quitting over US military 'Project Maven' tie-up
Broken Arrow, Angry Googler
HP's new Envy PC is the first all-in-one with Alexa baked-in
"Alexa, where to I put this massive desktop?"
Google Updates: What we know about Google's 2018 Pixel hardware
Don't regret I/O being over. Rejoice because there'll be new toys in autumn
Google's robo-calling feature will lead to a global apocalypse in eight years
Says a time-traveller who doesn't want any Kia Ora
Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri can be fooled by 'silent' commands
AI assistants could be tricked into wiring money or manipulating IoT devices
Google's DeepMind AI figures out human navigation
Clever code can beat humans at navigating virtual mazes
Gmail's Smart Compose AI tech will complete your sentences for you
It's the feature lazy typists have been waiting for
Google's TPU 3.0 will give AI algorithms a processing kick up the backside
Third-gen unit has eight times the power of its predecessor
Google Assistant will soon be able to make creepy lifelike phone calls for you
You'll never have to talk on the phone again
Android P public beta available with iPhone X-like gestures, Adaptive Battery
Google's incoming update wants you to spend less time on your phone
Microsoft puts AI front and centre at Build 2018
TLDR; Azure gets a load of AI smarts and Kinect is back, baby
Microsoft demonstrates how Cortana and Alexa will co-exist
Now you can add 'schizophrenia' to the bug list in Windows 10
Facebook open sources its powerful PyTorch 1.0 AI code and research framework
The social network pushes out data rather than sucks it up for a change
Microsoft and Amazon still can't commit to the Cortana/Alexa integration nuptials
Delay explained as wanting 'right, not right now'
Facebook's smart speakers could debut outside of the US due to privacy concerns
Devices will reportedly be powered by Facebook's 'M' AI assistant
Google's Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology renaissance'
Brin wants Googlers to be careful with rather than beware of AI development
Robot Wars producers confirm they still hope to re-home the show
In the meantime why not try Robots Live! to scratch that itch
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