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Ascertus Limited, a provider of document and information lifecycle management solutions to law firms and corporate legal departments, has entered into a partnership with Legal RM, a specialist in records management consultancy and software development, to help customers effectively manage electronic and physical records for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. 

Tanzania has announced that it is launching the world’s largest drone delivery service to provide emergency on-demand access to critical and life-saving medicines. Following a similar partnership with the government of Rwanda last year, the eastern African country has teamed up with Californian company Zipline.

Testplant, the global leader in digital automation intelligence, today announced the availability of the latest version of its pioneering Eggplant AI product. Eggplant AI 2.0 uses AI, machine learning, and analytics to intelligently navigate applications, predict where quality issues are most likely to occur, and correlate data to help product teams quickly identify and resolve issues.

On Monday 18th September 2017, ThoughtRiver officially launched “Review”: an Artificial Intelligence contract review solution that can assess legal contracts an average of 60 times faster and 30 percent cheaper than the typical paralegal.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted Amazon two patents for wristbands that track the hands of its workers on 30 January 2018. Designed to provide “haptic feedback” to assist the workers, the online retailer clearly plans to move into a potentially intrusive area.

According to South Africa based enterprise-grade drone manufacturer, drones will soon be seen regularly flying over borders= zones, crime hot spots, and city streets, as public safety agencies discover the potential cost-saving benefits and efficiency boosting nature offered by the eye in the sky. The increasing proliferation of UAVs utilised by public services alongside the rise in the consumer drones illustrates the complex structure of the drone market and how it is evolving.

Footage emerged earlier this week of a plane being filmed from a drone hovering above. The incident took place near McCarran International Airport in Nevada. Unsurprisingly, many drone organisations have described the operator as reckless, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are investigating.

Two pioneering providers of legal support have teamed up to give consumers and businesses even more choice when looking for services online.

FANUC America Corporation has introduced four new national training certifications for robotics and advanced automation manufacturing. The certifications are the first ever for robot operations, programming and integrated vision.

The SELF DRIVE (Safely Ensuring Lives Future Development and Research in Vehicle Evolution) bill has been passed by the US House of Representatives, with unusually bipartisan support. The bill lays out a basic federal framework for autonomous vehicle regulation, showing that self-driving cars have come into federal lawmakers’ attention.

“I taught an AI to empathise” is not a phrase one uses every day, but that’s exactly what the Deep Empathy program offers. A collaboration led by Scalable Cooperation at MIT Media Lab, and influenced by UNICEF Innovation, it seeks to pursue a scalable way to increase empathy.

Icelandic online marketplace AHA has teamed up with drone delivery company Flytrex. Based in Tel Aviv, the drone company raised $3 million earlier this year for developing its drone company, after starting out providing “black box” flight recorders and a cloud powered personal drone tracking software.

Tata Consultancy Services have surveyed large companies from across the globe on how they utilise and invest in AI, or cognitive technologies.

One of the globe’s foremost drone manufacturers, DJI, has set up a training programme for the development of civilian drones for public safety at the Technology Base in Twente, Netherlands. In preparation of the programme, DJI has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Space53, the Enschede-based public-private partnership for developing unmanned systems.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao has announced that 1,000,000 drones have been registered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Hokianga Restricted Airspace is an 874 square kilometre area in New Zealand that has been opened up to trials of UAVs flying beyond visual line of sight (BVLoS). The test range has been dubbed “Incredible Skies” and it extends the opportunity for a new wave of UAV research, both in New Zealand, and globally.

Artesian Solutions, the powerful Artificial Intelligence driven service that equips client facing teams with the resources they need to succeed in a modern commercial environment, has been named amongst the Top 25 UK B2B Companies.

The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has released an annual safety review, looking back over the year of 2016. In that year, the AAIB received 656 notifications and it deployed 38 times to conduct field investigations, 14 of which were fatal accidents, while a further 208 investigations were conducted by correspondence.

Semafone, the leading provider of data security and compliance solutions for contact centres, sees trouble ahead for companies which don’t have their cyber security in order – but also predicts that new regulations will have a positive impact on the market. CEO Tim Critchley, global solutions director Ben Rafferty, and head of information security Shane Lewis, share their top five predictions for 2018.

On 1 August, the Public Safety Aviation Accreditation Commission (PSAAC) released the first draft of standards for the use of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) by public safety agencies, in collaboration with the Airborne Law Enforcement Association (ALEA).