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ICO issues its first GDPR fine
The ICO is concerned with AggregateIQ's retention and processing of data used in the Brexit referendum
Bank of England governor lowers job loss estimates for Industry 4.0
Mark Carney said that about 10 per cent of UK jobs would be replaced by automation: lower than earlier estimates
Populations agree that automation will replace jobs and increase inequality
Greece, South Africa and Argentina are the most wary of automation's possibilities
Trainline Twitter bot collates and presents disruption information before national rail data feeds
Trainline is using natural language processing and machine learning to scan for disruptions - and inform customers before official rail data feeds
Atrium is bringing automation to the legal profession
But not in a Robocop way
Bots using MIT's neural network can teach themselves how to manipulate objects they've never seen
The system learns just from seeing the objects
V&A explores the evolving art form and controversies of video games
New tools and technologies have changed how video game designers reach their audience - emotionally and physically
UK must avoid 'fear-driven backlash' in artificial intelligence
AI is a greater threat than climate change, poverty or terrorism, says professor Jim Al-Khalili
Robot boat makes history with Atlantic crossing
Unmanned boats are becoming cheaper to build thanks to low-cost equipment and 3D printing
Samsung considers Google tie-up to improve Bixby
Samsung's Kim Hyun-Suk made the comments at IFA in Berlin
Yahoo is abusing your forgotten email account
Abandoning Ymail to spam has, if anything, increased its value
Chatbots and personal assistants will enhance citizen data science, says Gartner
Democratising data will turn everyone into a data scientist
UK to develop its own non-EU satellite network
The funding represents a severing of ties with the EU's Galileo project
Tesla wins dismissal of Model 3 court case
The electric auto maker really needed a win after several months of "production hell"
Plans for autonomous, electric container ship make waves in Norway
The unmanned freighter will replace 40,000 truck journeys each year
A guide to gearing up in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth
World of Warcraft's newest expansion isn't afraid to shake up established systems
NASA prepares to bombard Earth with space lasers
Space Force, anyone?
OpenAI Five bots fall to professional Dota 2 players, but it's not over yet
AI beats semi-pros but falls down in the big leagues
Shortlist announced for UK IT Industry Awards 2018
Did you make the shortlist for the UK's most respected IT event?
Bank of England sounds warning note over automation job losses
The scale of jobs lost to automation will be at least as large as those in the first three industrial revolutions
Bank of England sounds warning note over automation job losses
The scale of jobs lost to automation will be at least as large as those in the first three industrial revolutions
Ex-employee accuses Tesla of spying on workers and ignoring drug cartel operating in Gigafactory
The former employee says that Tesla fired him for bringing the accusations to management internally
DeepMind's neural networks can analyse eye scans for disease in seconds
Trained on curated data from Moorfields Eye Hospital, the neural network also shows clinicians how it reached its judgement
DARPA wants to build an army of teeny tiny robots
The intent is to build bots small enough to crawl through a garden hose