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Is the value of linking data sets worth the cost?
Should you link your data sets to add value, or leave them separate to reduce risk?
Internet luminaries criticise EU proposals that could 'destroy the internet' as we know it
Would you want to live in a world without memes?
Amazon wants to automate your hotel stay
Alexa for Hospitality will link with existing systems so guests can order room service and control the air con
Robots are moving out of the factory and in to restaurants
Brexit labour shortages will lead to higher adoption of robotics
How Badoo is changing dating with massive data
Data is the perfect intersection of logic and emotion
The NHS should embrace automation to save £13 billion, say Lords
Former health ministers say 'carebots' will free up healthcare staff and save billions
Job-replacing AI won't be here until the next recession
Today's automation investments could spell bad news for office workers in 10 years' time
EE says that O2's 5G lite claims are 'misleading'
EE has been quick to respond to O2's claims that pre-2020 5G will lack critical features
UK will have no say in EU AI or data protection rules after Brexit
The UK will be subject to EU rules, but have no way to influence them after leaving the Union
Chancellor says UK will build its own satellite network if banned from Galileo
Philip Hammond wants to forget rules that the UK agreed with the EU to ban non-European companies from the satellites
The chip industry dismissed Millennium Prize winner's transformational technology for decades
Tuomo Suntola's ALD technology extended Moore's Law, but was only adopted by chip-makers in 2007
MoD wants to maintain a register of AI experts
Before robots can take over from humans, we need more humans
Researchers have found a new flaw related to Spectre and Meltdown
The ghost is still in the machine
UK engineering's gender imbalance "cannot be healthy" says Royal Academy CEO
The perception of the industry as "a white man in a hard hat" is limiting new applicants, says Hayaatun Sillem
Boston Dynamics to sell door-opening robot dog
Pros: No shed fur. Cons: Oil leaks on the sofa
Exclusive: Neural networks could be a 'silver shotgun shell' for the games industry
Procedural content generation is out and artificial intelligence is in
Battling AIs build new Doom levels
Even other machines think that the levels are man-made
Flat Earthers insist that Australia is really South America
Even pilots are in on the cover up
Sky uses AWS in 21st-century Guess Who at Royal Wedding
Machine learning and video analytics will identify guests live on-screen
Former spies are scraping Facebook data to build a massive facial recognition database
Israeli firm Terrogence has ties with the US government
Elon Musk says that too much automation is slowing Model 3 production
Too many robots led to a "crazy network" of conveyors, but Musk now expects a big increase in Model 3 production
How Ocado modernised its legacy IT architecture to create the Ocado Smart Platform
Before Ocado could start selling the technology it had developed to other retailers, it had to tear down and rebuild its own monolithic architecture
The Galaxy S9 is probably better than your TV
Samsung's under-the-hood improvements separate the S9 from the pack when it comes to the display