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• Looks like Elon had a few too many at the Tesla Christmas party

  08-12-2017 17:26
  Everyone gets a bit bold when they have a couple of beers, and it seems Tesla CEO Elon Musk is no different as he ‘boldly about Tesla’s upcoming custom artificial intelligence hardware’.
  According to Bloomberg, while hosting academics and industry researchers at a private event, Musk boasted about the AI developments at Tesla, claiming the solutions will be the best in the world. For the moment, details about what the AI kit will actually do are relatively thin, but we imagine
  
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• And something less serious for a Friday; a smart urinal

  08-12-2017 13:20
  Every now and then it’s important to take a moment have a chuckle and wonder what sort of world we’re now living in; introducing Mr. Friendly, a smart urinal.
  The last couple of years have been tough on pubs. Taxes are always going up on alcohol and consumers are becoming more cash conscious, as well as healthier (god forbid), so Mr. Friendly has come up with a way pubs can make money by having a toilet (thank you to The Next Web for spotting this delight).
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• AT&T/Time Warner vs. Department of Justice; bout set for March 19

  08-12-2017 12:51
  Judge Richard Leon of the District of Columbia has set a date for the antitrust trial to finally settle AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner and the Department of Justice’s wobbly.
  What started as a relatively simple acquisition process for AT&T has quickly turned into a nightmare as the DoJ sued both the telco and Time Warner in an attempt to block an acquisition it views as anticompetitive. There is a glimmer of hope the saga might be resolved by the April deadline
  
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• The new AI Team; Baidu and Qualcomm

  08-12-2017 11:39
  Qualcomm and Baidu have announced a strategic alliance to create an AI voice solution based on the new Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform and Baidu’s DuerOS Conversational AI System.
  The aim will be to optimize Baidu’s DuerOS conversational artificial intelligence (AI) system for smartphones on the Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile Platform to create a smart assistant solution for global smartphone and IoT devices. The DuerOS has been around since early 2017, though such a partnership might be
  
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• iOS HomeKit bug allowed remote access to smart locks

  08-12-2017 11:16
  As consumers sit down at their computers to buy Christmas presents for the near and dear, the last thing they want to know about is a bug which allows the tech-savvy to override smart home devices.
  Timing could have been better for Apple. The flaw, which was demonstrated to 9to5Mac by an unnamed source, granted access to unauthorised individuals who would be able to tap into internet-connected devices controlled by Apple’s smart home platform. A temporary patch has been released by Apple,
  
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• Nvidia unveils Titan V with 110 Teraflops of deep learning power

  08-12-2017 10:35
  Nvidia has unleashed new desktop GPU, with claims the beast is taming 110 Teraflops of horsepower under the hood, a moody nine times that of its puny predecessor.
  Designed for computational processing for machine learning researchers, developers, and data scientists, it’s 21.1 billion transistors can deliver 110 teraflops of processing power, nine times more powerful than the Titan X, and what the company describes as ‘extreme energy efficiency’. The technology version of roid
  
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• Who is responsible for the security of your data?

  08-12-2017 01:00
  Network security pretty much picked itself as the focus of this week's Friday Review, based on the sheer number of people who have spoken to me about it this week. Whether in one on one interviews, networking break-out sessions or during numerous emails on the subject, cyber security is the one issue that seemingly everybody has wanted to talk about.As a former oil and gas journalist working in Dubai, I have seen first-hand how cyber-attacks on production facilities can bring multi-billion doll
  
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• Orange to continue investment in full fibre as EBIDTA jumps 2%

  08-12-2017 01:00
  French telecoms operator, Orange, is set to increase its investment in full fibre networks at home and in Spain, following a rise in profits announced at its annual investor day in London…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EU 5G roadmap promises rollout by 2025

  08-12-2017 01:00
  EU ministers have agreed a roadmap for the roll out of 5G technology across Europe. The roadmap will provide consensus over the harmonisation of 5G spectrum bands and how they will be allocated to operators across Europe.During a high profile meeting in the Estonian capital of Tallinn…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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