Europe’s leading UTM software provider and airspace integration start-up, Altitude Angel, is expanding its senior leadership team with the appointment of key industry figureheads.
Agriculture is a key, fast-growing industry in Africa – and Parrot, the leading European drone group, is offering business solutions, covering drones and software, to professionals in this business sector.
Last year, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a new programme to give regulation of the drone industry a boost. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has announced the 10 state, local, and tribal governments that will participate.
One of the leading companies exploring the industry of drone deliveries, Drone Delivery Canada, has created the new post of Director of Regulatory Affairs USA. The appointment of James (Jim) Williams signals the company’s intent to bring its business south to the USA and to expand its operations.
Latest release of Puzzel cloud contact centre solution provides new bot options including its own Chat bot, multi-channel capabilities and introduces enhanced measures to protect customer data.
In 2015, the issue of a non-human claiming copyright ownership erupted across the world when PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) launched a lawsuit against a photographer for the rights to a “monkey selfie”. Now, a US court has ruled that only humans can own copyright.
The next generation of the CaseLines digital evidence management platform was released today. Central to the release CaseLines have advanced their unique extended structural metadata model to allow users to build and control defined relationships between the evidence, multiple parties, the court and the judge, enabling multi-bundle functionality.
The number of new patents filed for technology related to drones has hit a new high of 5,301 in 2016/17, up 327% from 1,242 the year before, and up from just 174 five years ago, as competition between manufacturers escalates, says Thomson Reuters.
Envelop Risk, a global specialty cyber insurance analytics and underwriting firm, announced the launch of its business at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Envelop Risk provides cyber underwriting to insurers and reinsurers; and partners with cyber security firms to deliver custom cyber insurance products for their customers.
Following on from its examination of the effects of technology in the public sector last year, independent think tank Reform has released a report called Thinking on its own: AI in the NHS. It highlights the areas in which AI is currently deployed in the NHS, what its future uses can be, and what legal challenges need to be overcome to reach that destination.
Parrot, the leading European Drone Group, has appeared for the first time among the list of the top 50 companies based on number of patent submissions in France.
Law firms continue to experience increased competition from within and outside the legal sector as legal work becomes commoditised. Additionally, in-house counsels are under more pressure to demonstrate value to their organisation. Against this backdrop, artificial intelligence technology is helping organisations make best use of data to assess their legal obligations and risk, freeing up legal staff to perform more high value tasks.
After one of their autonomous vehicles caused the death of 49-year-old pedestrian Elaine Herzberg on 18 March, Uber has reached a settlement with her family out of court. The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.
In what is becoming a hyper-competitive industry, the fortunes of premier drone manufacturers DJI and GoPro are in stark contrast. American company GoPro has announced its plans to exit the business citing competitiveness of the sector as well as increasing regulation. Meanwhile, despite recent concerns over security, Chinese company DJI has confirmed its place as a leader in the market with its latest product.
In what has been a difficult time for autonomous vehicles, not helped by this recent incident involving a driver using the Tesoa Model X with the Autopilot feature. Unfortunately the driver later died in hospital, and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has not been impressed by the lack of information released by Tesla.
Nine Iranian have been charged with conducting a cyber theft campaign on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. They penetrated systems belonging to hundreds of universities and companies, in an attack that demonstrates the weaknesses in many organisations’ cyber defences.
On 1 December 2017, AI experts Enigma Pattern broke the infamous Enigma code in just thirteen minutes in a live demonstration. In an event designed to demonstrate the endless potential of AI, from diagnosing medical conditions to rendering judgements on whether someone should get a loan and cracking history’s trickiest code, Enigma Pattern also showcased the rising power of cloud computing and data centres.
The fierce pace of technology disruption is forcing companies to innovate via M&A to avoid being left behind. Hampleton Partners highlights increased private equity activity against a cyclical downward trend in deal volumes and value.
Last year, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) released a report called Ethically Aligned Design, written with the purpose of advancing the discussion of how artificial intelligence and autonomous systems (AI/AS) can be aligned to moral values and ethical considerations that prioritise human wellbeing. The organisation opened it up to commentary and feedback from the public.
Uber’s self-driving vehicle hit a pedestrian in Arizona, leading to her death, and the company has responded by suspending testing of its self-driving vehicles in all cities in North America.
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