Students aim to cook up storm after being selected for culinary-themed Alexa AI project
A team of Scottish postgraduate students have been chosen by Amazon to compete in an artificial intelligence project to perfect the recipe for next-generation conversational assistants that perform multi-step tasks...
Scotland’s nature agency’s £1.25m artificial intelligence project to better connect people to beauty spots
Scotland’s nature agency is to embark on a £1.25m artificial intelligence project to better connect people to beauty spots. NatureScot hopes the ground-breaking tech project will help improve the management...
Scottish university secures funding to work on ‘pioneering’ mental health AI platform
A Scottish university has secured £250,000 funding to work with a software company on a ‘pioneering’ artificial intelligence (AI) platform for mental health and wellbeing. The University of the West...
Satellite data ‘vital’ to tackling climate change, COP26 report says
The UK must maximise the potential of satellite data to help the world meet climate change goals, according to a new report ahead of COP26. Co-authored by a University of...
The app with some bite – investors sink their teeth into ‘shark’ platform
An artificial intelligence-powered app that stands to revolutionise business project management has secured £400,000 in seed funding. Edinburgh-founded Sharktower, which launched a week before lockdown, has raised the sum in...
Smartphones could use ‘bat sense’ to generate images from sound
Everyday objects like smartphones and laptops could be equipped with a ‘bat-like sense’ of their surroundings, according to a groundbreaking paper published today. Researchers from the University of Glasgow have...
.scot web domain registrations increase by 13% since pandemic
New figures have revealed a surge in registrations for .scot web domains since the Covid-19 pandemic struck. According to data monitored by the .scot Registry, web domains using the Scot...
Robotics team set to create a bang with ‘life-saving’ technologies
A software company working with a ‘world-leading’ Edinburgh-based centre for robotics is set to create bomb disposal and nuclear decommissioning technologies ‘designed to save lives’. Cyberselves, a robotics software company...
Smart meters to ‘revolutionise’ independent living in Scottish care homes
Smart meters and associated technologies are being used as part of a ‘ground-breaking’ new trial to alert carers to possible health-related incidents faced by elderly and vulnerable people living alone in...
Fines of £42 million issued to UK companies in breach of data laws
Millions of pounds worth of penalties for data misuse were handed out in the UK last year including to a Scottish company hit with the maximum fine of £500,000 for...
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