Huawei AI in Broadband and Swisscom Ambiton to Bring 1Gig to Villages

AI is helping to reduce the cost of providing and maintaining broadband for heavy traffic areas

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IBM Weather Forecasting Crowd Sources Data Via Phones and Planes

"Weather influences what people do day-to-day and is arguably the most important external swing factor in business performance"

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Why Tech With Social Purpose Will Change the World: Ed Evans, CEO, Social Tech Trust

"If society is to benefit from innovations which focus tech on addressing social challenges, then we need to do more to increase collaboration and investment in social tech"

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IBM Awarded Record 9,100 Patents in 2018

2,000 cloud patents, 1,600 AI patents...

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Rio Tinto Deploys Worlds First Autonomous Train Haulage System

"It’s been a challenging journey to automate a rail network of this size and scale in a remote location like the Pilbara"

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UK Software Tested on Autonomous Martian Robot in the Sahara Desert

“Mars is a very difficult planet to land safely on, so it’s essential to maximise the discoveries from each successful touchdown."

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Huawei First to Trial Google’s Fuchsia OS

"Device optimisation to a particular device or SoC is a big overhead for OEMs"

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Apple Buys Tesla, and…

... and 9 other "outrageous" predictions for 2019

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The Tech Industry Needs You! (On a Mainframe)

"What can be done to tempt the next generation of programmers to pursue a path that seems to have an image problem?"

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Predicting Visual Perception of Material Structure in Virtual Environments

One of the most accurate yet still practical representation of material appearance is the Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF). The BTF can be viewed as an extension of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF)... Read more »