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Market giants open up about their move towards automation

FTSE 100 annual reports show growth in application of robotic technologies across various industries.

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AI platform upgrade

Ubuntu 18.10: Multi-cloud, new desktop theme and enhanced desktop snap integration

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Global industrial robot sales doubled over the past five years
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The new World Robotics Report shows that a new record high of 381,000 units were shipped globally in 2017 – an increase of 30 percent compared to the previous year. This means that the annual sales volume of industrial robots increased by 114 percent over the last five years (2013-2017). The sales value increased by 21 percent compared to 2016 to a new peak of US$16.2 billion in 2017.

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Personalised banking goes on trial
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Companies to use artificial intelligence to deliver financial advice in tune with the lifestyles of bank customers in Japan.

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NCR automates age approval at the self-checkout

NCR Corporation will integrate the Yoti digital identity platform with its NCR FastLane SelfServ™ Checkout solution to help improve the shopping experience for customers buying age restricted items. Retailers in the US and UK are expected to trial the combined solution in the coming months.

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A third of patients in the UK are willing to have major invasive surgery performed by AI

New research by PwC signals a huge opportunity to transform healthcare delivery.

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Revolutionising how technology is used in hospitals

A new unit set to transform the use of technology including artificial intelligence in healthcare and improve patient outcomes is being opened at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

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CA Technologies unveils autonomous AI for IT operations capabilities

CA Technologies has marked a major milestone in the company’s autonomous strategy with the availability of CA Digital Experience Insights which is now combined with the power of CA Operational Intelligence and CA Automic Service Orchestration. Together they form the new CA Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) platform, to enable IT teams to automate and eliminate key tasks and make self-healing applications a reality.

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Atos launches inaugural AI lab in London with Google Cloud

Atos has welcomed Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries, Rt Hon Margot James MP to launch Atos' first artificial intelligence (AI) lab under the Atos and Google Cloud’s global partnership.

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World’s first AI smart hives help conserve declining global honey bee populations

Data to be collected from an international network of connected smart hives, monitored and analysed with Oracle Cloud technology.

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Huawei releases faster full-lifecycle AI development platform

Huawei has released faster full-lifecycle AI development platform.

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Huawei releases AI strategy

The third annual HUAWEI CONNECT, a global event for the ICT industry, opened yeasterday at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center. Themed “Activate Intelligence”, this year's event focuses on AI: its challenges, opportunities, innovations, and practices.

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Digital commerce has high success rate for AI projects

Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital commerce is generally considered a success, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. About 70 per cent of digital commerce organisations surveyed report that their AI projects are very or extremely successful.

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Organizations are only scratching the surface when it comes to automation

New report suggests organizations are missing a huge opportunity in automation by focusing on operational benefits over top-line growth.

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Arrow electronics addresses the AI-driven data centre

Arrow Electronics has entered into a strategic distribution agreement with NVIDIA. Under the terms of the agreement, Arrow will distribute data centre platforms such as NVIDIA® DGX™, NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU), and NVIDIA® Tesla® in the EMEA region.

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Videos

Jon Selway, Aryaka’s Vice President of Channel Sales – EMEA, discusses the SD-WAN, and not unrelated SASE and ZTNA, opportunities, both for small and medium sized enterprises and, therefore, the Channel organisations which serve them. He explains the various SD-WAN solutions available, advising end users, VARs and MSPs to ensure that when they do evaluate both networking and security solutions, there are no hidden surprises – with native and fully integrated stack solutions offering perhaps the best way forward.
Lori MacVittie, F5 Distinguished Engineer, discusses the findings of the company’s inaugural Digital Maturity Index, which looks at the ways in which organisations have, or have not as yet, embraced the technologies and processes required to implement a successful digital transformation strategy. The Index identifies doers, dabblers and dawdlers, at varying stages of their digital journeys, identifying what distinguishes each group, but also some common challenges which still remain.
Xavier Gaillard, Milexia CEO, outlines the company’s very ambitious growth target to double sales over five years, explaining how this will be achieved through a mixture of acquisitions, partnership development and the introduction of new technology solutions and services. Xavier also provides some insight as to how Milexia is helping the semiconductor industry supply chain adjust to life post-Covid.
Gisli Kr., Chief Sales Officer at AtNorth. discusses the carbon footprint AI explosion, suggesting that finding the right sustainable data centre to host these AI applications can help contribute to the circular economy. He also provides updates on the company’s third Icelandic data centre, some new hires, and record revenue levels – which in part can be contributed to atNorth’s strong sustainability credentials.

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