Data Analytics

A new Industry 4.0 design and policy centre has been opened in India by the World Economic Forum, in conjunction with the Indian government and the major industrial states of …

Automotive manufacturer Volvo and chip maker NVIDIA have teamed up to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to self-driving Volvo cars. The pair will develop an AI-enabled core computer for new models …

“The kaleidoscope has been shaken; the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for the political age, almost two decades ago. But as an analogy for ground-shaking change, …

We have 12 years to save the planet, calculate scientists in the starkest warning yet that our chances of tackling climate change and averting disaster are slipping away. After 2030, …

Cisco has reorganised its innovation team as a function of its engineering department, rather than its strategy unit, to drive commercial results from its more pioneering work around technologies like …

Platform provider Particle has released a round of new internet-of-things (IoT) developer tools and an IoT app design programme based on Microsoft’s coding studio. Particle’s IoT platform underpins offerings from …

IBM has released a range of new Watson artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and services tailored for the agriculture, manufacturing, supply chain, building management, and automotive industries. “Tailoring general AI for …

Ford, Uber and Lyft have agreed to pool their road traffic data in an open platform available to public and private sector companies to improve mobility in and around cities. …

The first ‘robotic supermarket’ is set to open in Miami, Florida. The facility uses robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to retrieve groceries from closely-stacked shelves and pack them into shopping …

Ericsson will have completed construction of Sprint’s new IoT core network and operating system (OS) by next month, it has said. The US carrier will be able to offer ‘internet …

California-based industrial analytics firm Plutoshift has released a cloud-based AI solution to connect asset and financial data to unearth previously inaccessible insights, trends, and revenues. The new artificial intelligence (AI) application …

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is on a charm offensive to strike cross sector alliances with trade bodies, communities and consortia to bring greater harmony and faster transformation of industry …

Lift maker KONE has selected AT&T to connect it elevators and escalators in North America in order to gather data, enable predictive maintenance, and improve safety and performance. AT&T said …

The marine division of US machinery and equipment maker Caterpillar has integrated OSIsoft’s data management system into its industrial artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help shipping companies reduce fuel and …

For ultra low latency services, as enabled by incoming 5G technologies, multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a must. It provides the means to reduce latency, by degrees, as the compute …

Artificial intelligence (AI) will create more jobs than its takes away, as well as bringing new efficiencies and profit making to enterprises. This is the conclusion of new research into …

AT&T is inviting companies in the manufacturing, retail, health, finance, and public sector industries into its Foundry innovation lab in Plano, Texas, for the first time to collaborate on new …

Telecoms vendor Nokia and engineering firm Altran have announced a predictive maintenance solution to streamline the upkeep of trains from all manufacturers. Nokia said it will make trains up to …

IBM has launched an open-source toolkit to discern bias in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The project, in Python, presents developers with fairness metrics to check for bias in machine learning …

Canadian telematics firm Geotab is making available hyper-local weather and environmental data from its fleet of over one million vehicles across the globe. It is offering the live feed of …

Cannabis growers, like other agriculturalists, are turning to internet-of-things (IoT) technologies, essentially comprising sensor devices and data analytics, to bring new efficiencies to their operations, and improve yields and profits. …

The old drivers for the advancement and miniaturisation of computing may be about spent, but there is plenty of innovation in the pipe during the next five years, Arm co-founder …

Operators Sprint and Vodafone have backed Arm’s integrated SIM (iSIM) technology to help the internet-of-things (IoT) market reach scale. Sprint confirmed it is working with fellow Softbank companies Arm and …

The most advanced factories in the world are in Europe and Asia, according to a new review of smart manufacturing by the World Economic Forum. Just one of the top …

Ferry company Stena Line has started using artificial intelligence (AI) to lower the fuel consumption of its ships by 2.5 per cent. The company signed a deal with Hitachi Vantara, …