“I know your favourite drink”: Chinese smart city to put AI in charge
Thomson Reuters Foundation From robots delivering coffee to office chairs rearranging themselves after a meeting, a smart city project in China aims to put artificial intelligence in charge, its creators told a conference last week – raising some eyebrows. Danish architecture firm BIG and Chinese tech company Terminus discussed plans to build an AI-run campus-style […]
Getting better? More woman in tech but not at the top
LisbonThomson Reuters Foundation Technology firms are hiring more women and narrowing the gender gap, a poll by Europe’s largest technology conference found on Wednesday, but female leaders said the multi-trillion dollar industry was still failing to put them in its boardrooms. A poll of 600 women in tech by the Web Summit showed nearly half, […]