China, France, the U.K. and the European Union all have articulated AI strategies
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the future. It will be essential in advancements toward autonomous driving, the way we use wireless devices, digital transformation of key industries like manufacturing, and many other use...
Using Data Science to Optimize the Wireless Experience and Minimize WLAN Costs
The explosive growth of smart mobile devices, applications, and Internet of Things (IoT) has created a big challenge for legacy wireless LAN products, which were all designed when smartphones and tablets didn’t exist...
The French and UK governments have signed a five-year accord to work together to improve digital services through state-level collaboration on artificial intelligence (AI), data and digital administration.
Mounir Mahjoubi and Matt Hancock, digital secretaries for France and the UK respectively, ratified the deal today...
The move to a ‘lights-out’ factory has already begun, but the developing transition requires an overhaul of industrial facilities, equipment, systems and people if it is to go the distance. Transformation of the manufacturing industry, or ‘vertical’ in service-provider parlance, must also make way...
The new AI facility will focus on advanced research in artificial intelligence technologies
Bosch has officially launched its Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) research lab in Pittsburgh.
The new facility, which will be the BCAI’s fourth location, will conduct advanced research in artificial intelligence (AI)...
Qualcomm has added the faster, LTE-based Snapdragon 632, 439 and 429 to its mobile platforms.
Qualcomm has added to its Snapdragon 600 and 400 tiers with the Snapdragon 632, 439 and 429 Mobile Platforms. The platforms promise better battery life, more efficiency and higher performance,...
The carrier is currently testing its Mobi self-driving robot using its LTE network in New York
Sprint, working with Adaptive Motion Group (AMG), is starting to deploy its "Mobi" self-driving robot -- designed to charge electric buses, cars and industrial vehicles in New York City.
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While 5G could be deployed without Artificial Intelligence (AI) and edge compute, intelligent edge will be essential to new revenues and lower costs for 5G.
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Communications service providers (CSPs) deliver an essential service — connectivity. Everyone wants to be able to communicate, but some might argue that all CSPs deliver the same thing, acting as the carrier of voice and data without a broader relationship with the subscriber. For...
Diverse requirements of 5G services command co-creation beyond telecoms
Massive support for the internet of things is a major aspect of 5G. And we're not talking about consumer IoT like wearables or smart home devices; we're talking about billions of devices driving digital transformation for...
Nokia eyeing 2019 for launch of AI-powered 5G Digital Design tool
LONDON—5G is many things, chief among them complex and expensive to deploy. As operators evolve network infrastructure from LTE and, over time, to robust 5G, how do they chart a course that balances capital...
Today’s IT landscape is all about moving towards the microdata centers, as the demand for edge computing pushes through the need for quick and instant access to data. Edge computing is localized computing for systems that operate away from the primary data center. Typically,...
European ferry operator Stena Line is working with Hitachi to review its digital operations and smarten-up its fleet with artificial intelligence (AI). The pair will combine to review Stena Line’s existing digital architecture, and formulate a transformation strategy to make Stena Line the “world’s...
The European Commission (EC) has proposed a total budget of €51.5 billion for new technologies and network infrastructure under its next funding cycle, from 2021 to 2027, to drive industrial transformation and technological leadership across the region.
As part of two separate proposals, it has...
As a wireless analyst, I follow the changing world of products, services and innovation. As this industry continues to change, so do jobs. Listen to this: Dell Technologies Realizing 2030 report said that 80% of jobs in the year 2030 are not even around...
Autonomous machines will use AI to transform manufacturing, logistics, agriculture and other verticals
At the ongoing Computex event in Taipei, Taiwan, Nvidia announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to power autonomous machines and industrial robotics. The chipmaker specifically called out manufacturing, logistics, agriculture,...
For technologists, airports in general, and the planet?s busiest ones in particular, are like smart cities in microcosm. They encapsulate a head-spinning array of services and applications, covering everything from waste collection and traffic management to private retail and mission-critical controls.
Threading new airports with...
Today, Amazon is embarrassed and red-faced now that their Alexa AI smart speaker has been caught red-handed recording a private conversation, putting it into a message and sending it to someone in the address book of an unsuspecting user, without the user knowing what...
Everybody loves the ride to success Apple has seen over the last decade. The next question is, will their new HomePod be a success or a failure? HomePod is their AI device which uses Siri and is like Amazon Alexa or Google Home. Will...
Artificial intelligence (AI) will enable earlier diagnosis of diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease and dementia, British Prime Minister Theresa May has said in a speech on industrial strategy at Jodrell Bank, the UK centre for physics, astro-physics and astronomy, in Manchester.
In the latest in...
Japan-based Toyota has taken a stake in data analytics firm ALBERT, also from Japan, to bring new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies in house, and develop its own autonomous driving capabilities.
Toyota said the pair have struck a “business alliance” that will see...
The White House hosted 100 government officials, research academics, and business leaders to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of funding, regulation, workers and “military advantage” last week.
The Artificial Intelligence for American Industry summit, on May 10, was organised around two breakout sessions....
Vendors Nokia, Huawei and Motorola Solutions variously talked up next-generation command centres at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin this week. The trio offered multi-media public safety packages that variously make use of ‘internet of things’ (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, and seek...
Ericsson says zero-touch is now a customer expectation
U.S. smartphone user Jennifer, 29, summed up during an Ericsson-led focus group a complaint many of us likely share regarding customer experience interactions with telcos: "The automated voices I speak to make me so frustrated. They don’t...
