Welcome to the future. Are you facing its profitability and productivity challenges with a control system of the past? Statistically speaking, your answer is probably yes. 

Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) is constructing a water reuse facility to help the company meet over 10 percent of its water needs annually…

As Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation it is high time I took advantage of the vacuum of power at No.10 to announce some major new initiatives, Ed confides to his diary, and my first one is to be in AI. AI’s been a techie aspiration since Turing’s time – no one knows …

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The CBI has welcomed the announcement of the Government’s Data Protection Bill which includes bringing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into domestic law. Compared to the current Data Protection Act the the GDPR increases the scope of data protection and provides much tougher punishments for those who fail to comply with new …

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The chemical, also marketed as Roundup™, is present in up to 70% of drinking water.

More rainfall would lead to more algae blooms, dead zones.

Hattiesburg officials are implementing measures to improve water quality after a study from the State Department of Health showed high levels of iron in the water supply.

Sony and IBM are claiming a record magnetic tape data storage record, at 201Gb/in2, ~20x greater than IBM’s latest enterprise tape drive. “The resulting technology can support approximately 330TB per data cartridge, whereas conventional technology can only handle 15TB per data cartridge”, said Sony (see footnote). Behind the announcement is Sony’s lubricated magnetic tape technology …

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AI has become an area of intense M&A activity with big companies like Google, IBM, Yahoo, Intel, Apple, Samsung, GE, Ford and Salesforce buying start-ups. Over 250 private companies using AI algorithms in different industries have been acquired since 2012, with 37 acquisitions taking place in Q1 2017, says CB Insights. Google is the most active …

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Xiaomi captured 17%  marketshare in the 22 million unit wearables market in Q2.and became the world’s largest wearables vendor, overtaking Fitbit and Apple, says Strategy Analytics. “Global wearables shipments reached 21.6 million units in Q2 2017, rising 8 percent annually from 20.0 million in Q2 2016,” says Strategey Analytics’ Steven Waltzer, “strong demand for low-cost …

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