5G, Huawei and a technology tipping point
The US-China trade war has already seen various skirmishes, around intellectual property, steel and soya. One, however, is shaping up to be a battleground that could define a new world order –…
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A workforce revolution is coming – how ready are you?
As we shift to the gig economy, many executives do not know how large their real workforces are – or how to take care of them, writes Adam Jezard. The world of…
Humanity may not be hard-wired for success
Engineers and scientists are working on rapidly evolving AI technologies with sometimes little or no oversight. Where are these technocrats taking us, asks James Fitzgerald. When is software not software, asked the…
AI provokes revolutionary minds
Artificial intelligence is no longer the sole preserve of data scientists and science fiction writers, with its technological applications now pervading daily life, says James Fitzgerald. The “Fourth Industrial Revolution”…
Healthcare & AI: making the black box transparent
Combine two immiscible and complex topics and the outcome is a devil’s amalgam of issues to resolve, as a House of Lords select committee exploring uses of artificial intelligence in healthcare discovered…
Innovating in an information-dominated world
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) yesterday presented their analysis of how emerging digital technologies will profoundly disrupt the operations of global industry and commerce, reports John Egan from Paris….
New data rules for an age of hacking and the hacked
In a new legal landscape fines of up to 4 per cent of global turnover, or €20 million, are on the cards if companies fail to comply, reports James Fitzgerald. In the…
Apple gets green light from Greenpeace
We are well aware that industries such as manufacturing, transport and energy have big environmental footprints, but what about big data’s? About 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute….