Four things the UK government must do to phase out petrol, diesel and hybrid cars by 2035 The future of British motoring? Bubble_Tea Stock/Shutterstock Ashley Fly, Loughborough University The UK government recently pledged to bring forward a ban on new diesel and petrol car sales from 2040, to 2035. The move surprised some, but perhaps […]
Explainable artificial intelligence XAI Quote of the day “Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated.”Go champion Lee Sedol explains why he’s retiring from professional play, after being beaten at the game by an AI system built by DeepMind. Explainable AI (XAI) refers to methods and techniques in the application […]
Could this be the image of the future? Rohit Talwar writes about dating: 2025 could signal the end of swiping right, as apps become fully automated using Artificial Intelligence. The next five years will see Artificial Intelligence and enhanced smartphone tech drive dating to a whole new level. Our health, attitudes, behaviours, on and off […]
IORMA at House of Lords the gig economy | dot everyone Wednesday 29th January 2020 IORMA was represented by Jane Calvert-Lee, External Relations Director at the launch of a report by doteveryone which has studied the effect of the gig economy on those who are employed on a part-time or payment-by-task via digital platforms. The […]
Through the digital age and beyond January 24, 2020 David SmithChief Executive of Global Futures and Foresight, Futurist, Strategist and Keynote Speaker One of the first large-scale automatic digital computers – the Mark 1 – was created around 1940 – and provided some impressive specs at 8ft high, 50ft long, 2ft wide, and weighing 5 tonnes[i]. […]
Without a process for collaboration and complex adaptive systems, the Tesla car would never have got into space How Elon Musk solves his procurement problems… John Rainford FRSANetwork Intelligence, CEO Strawberryfields.com > & Pronimen.com > Vice Chair, Iorma.com AI, IoT and Blockchain. As SpaceX fires more satellites into orbit to help with the 5G explosion around […]
Five Big Central Banks Unite to Explore Launching Their Own Digital Currencies In the beginning, there was Satoshi. It’s been a little over a decade since the pseudonymous founder of Bitcoin introduced the blockchain-based cryptocurrency that launched a thousand more blockchain-based cryptocurrencies. Since then, not a few folks have speculated that Bitcoin would take over […]
Not bot, not beast: scientists create first ever living, programmable organism Simon Coghlan, University of Melbourne and Kobi Leins, University of Melbourne A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots”. This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists published their recipe for making a new lifeform […]
World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes Renewable energy statistics just keep topping each other. Solar power is getting cheaper. Battery storage capacity is getting better. And wind farms are getting bigger. 2019 saw the world’s biggest (at the time) offshore wind farm come online, as well as construction of the biggest […]
Mojo Vision’s Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Kick off a Race to AR on Your Eye The digital world has been creeping closer to your face. Was a time when a laptop was about as personal as you got with a computer. Then came smartphones, and a few years later, some of us started strapping screens […]