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James Clerk Maxwell was a great man in very many ways – not least as a great human being. After an academic got a critical roasting from Maxwell in an article in Nature, he received an anonymous letter through the post which contained a poem taking the micky out of Maxwell. The anonymous sender of …
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In these uncertain times, I must look to feathering my post-Ministerial nest, Ed confides to his diary. So my New Year Resolutions are: To bag up more promises of non-exec directorships for when I leave government. To look for closer contacts with foreign start-ups (the Frogs seem very active here) with a view to taking …
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Dell went back onto the stock exchange on Friday nearly six years after Michael Dell took the company public. The complicated deal saw a group led by Michael Dell pay $24.4 billion for control of Dell – a valuation which infuriated activist investor Carl Icahn who says the comany is worth $42 billion. The company …
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Healthcare AI start-ups have raised $4.3 billion across 576 deals since 2013, topping all other industries in AI deal activity, reports CB Insights. Image recognition is revolutionizing diagnostics. Recently, Google DeepMind’s neural networks matched the accuracy of medical experts in diagnosing 50 sight-threatening eye diseases. Pharma companies are experimenting with deep learning to design new drugs. For …
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The city’s giant Dubai Frame LED lighting installation dynamically changes colors with hardware and controls from Signify, Tryka, and Pharos.
The Emergency Services Network (ESN), which is being built by BT to provide priority access to mobile phone services for the emergency services, will be delayed as plans to use Huawei switchgear are being dropped. The ESN was to have been in place next year. The new date for completion of an Huawei-free ESN is …
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Yesterday, China’s BeiDou satellite positioning system BDS became fully operational. “This signifies that BDS has officially entered the global era as the BDS expands from a regional system to a global navigation system,” said BeiDou’s Ran Chenqi at the launch event, “from now on, no matter where you go, BDS will always be with you.” …
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Next week the legality of the most notorious business model in the tech industry’s history will come under the scrutiny of a judge. The judge is Lucy Koh who has shown a very independent streak in judgments affecting big companies who have used bully-boy tactics. The case is the US Federal Trade Commission v Qualcomm. …
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Face recognition technology has received a boost from the decision in Rivera v Google in a Chicago District Court. The plaintiffs alleged that Google’s Photo service violated their rights by collecting and storing biometric data from people’s photographs using facial recognition software without their permission. The judge decided that Google’s photo sharing and storage service …
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2018 was a bad year for tech, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told Martha Lane-Fox in a BBC interview. Vestager instanced “forced misuse of data, manipulation, supervision, no respect of the citizen, no respect of individual” as examples of abuse and stated “there is an increasing awareness of the fact that we really need to …
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