BROWSING: AI

Nvidia adds just-in-time security to enterprise edge AI management

Multi-instance GPU provisioning helps ‘right-size’ edge AI deployments Edge AI moves the computational focus out of the data center and closer to the edge of the network, where the users and their data are both located. Nvidia announced Monday improvements to Fleet Command, its cloud platform...

Private 5G in China – JD Logistics powers through big summer sale with 5G AGV fleet

JD.com, the other mega China-based online retailer, has been running at least 100 “self-developed” automated guided (or “ground”) vehicles (AGVs) over a private 5G network, apparently from local vendors Huawei and ZTE, to automate certain pick-and-pack supply chain operations at its busiest warehouse complex...

GE Healthcare opens 5G lab in India

GE Healthcare said that the 5G lab will serve as a testbed to develop future-ready products and solutions   GE Healthcare announced the inauguration of its 5G Innovation Lab in Bengaluru, India, the company said in a statement. Located at the John F. Welch Technology Centre (JFWTC),...

Vodafone, Google Cloud continue modernization efforts with AI Booster

Vodafone and Google Cloud announced AI Booster, a new machine learning platform Vodafone will use to improve customer experience.

The future of 5G: More features, more spectrum, more AI

If you work in telecommunications or are a close industry watcher, it may seem that 5G has been dominating discussion for nearly a decade. It seems that way because it’s true—important, impactful things take time—but the best is yet to come. Even as 5G...

The 5G Advanced vision: Merging connectivity, compute and AI at the edge

The second phase of 5G helps maximize operator investments while setting the stage for 6G The first phase of 5G is largely complete and already delivering impactful new consumer and enterprise experiences. Looking to the coming years, with the transition from 5G to 5G Advanced...

Nvidia, Siemens chart the future of the industrial metaverse

Combining Nvidia’s Omniverse and Siemens’ Xcelerator enables 'full-fidelity digital twins' Nvidia and Siemens have announced a collaboration that the two businesses promise will transform the manufacturing industry. The collaboration pairs Nvidia’s Omniverse and Siemens’ newly announced Xcelerator platforms together to “bring industrial automation to a...

Between the lines, Vodafone study asks how to sell to SMEs just trying to “stay afloat”

Whatever Vodafone’s intention when polling 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, and whatever its conclusion from their responses, one thing is also clear: business is hard in this economic climate. What also seems apparent, reading between the lines of Vodafone’s enterprise...

Europe, Asia Pacific lead smart cities index – for connectivity, services, engagement

In order, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and Seoul ranked as the top five smart cities, or ‘digital cities’, in a new study by Economist Impact. New York, Sydney, Singapore, Washington DC, and Paris rounded out the top 10, meaning Europe and Asia Pacific contributed...

Integration, simplification, multiplication – three signs private 5G has come of age

This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at last, that the private cellular market, covering localised installations of enterprise-geared 5G, nominally, has...

Chengdu, the 5G Joy City

Chinese vendor ZTE, together with China Telecom Chengdu Branch and other partners have been working in the so-called "5G Joy City" project in Chengdu, China, with the main goal of improving the quality of life of Chengdu residents. As part of this initiative, ZTE and...

Hybrid cloud and AI will drive tech’s evolution – IBM CEO

Hybrid cloud and AI will drive the next wave of technology and productivity, says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna.

Siemens buys UK industrial IoT firm Senseye for global smart factory push

Siemens has acquired UK-based industrial IoT firm Senseye for an undisclosed fee. Senseye, founded in 2014, provides analytics-based (“AI-powered”) predictive maintenance solutions for industrial machines, offering ways to manage and reduce unplanned downtime and to boost productivity and sustainability. The firm, headquartered in Southampton, was...

Qualcomm Webinar: Bringing AI research to wireless communication and sensing

AI for wireless is already here, with applications in areas such as mobility management, sensing and localization, smart signaling and interference management. Recently, Qualcomm Technologies has prototyped the AI-enabled air interface and launched the Qualcomm 5G AI Suite. These developments are possible thanks to...

Orange Business Services leverages AI for IT

Orange Business Services says its Service Manage-Watch helps IT departments wrangle service monitoring using AI-based predictive modeling.

Nokia integrates Azure Arc into MXIE bundle for mission-critical Industry 4.0

Nokia is to integrate Microsoft’s Azure Arc cloud management platform into its MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) solution for mission-critical Industry 4.0 environments. The tie-up will afford customers buying private wireless and edge computing from Nokia a way to also manage Azure workloads, in any...

BT to invest £100m to put UK enterprises in ‘digital fast lane’ and ‘soup-up security’

UK telecoms group BT has revealed a ‘charter’ to invest almost £100 million over the next three years in its new Division X digital change unit, which is at the heart of its broader strategy to establish itself as a ‘tech-co’ (“not a telco”),...

Microsoft puts AI, Azure cloud development front and center at Build

Microsoft's AI-related Build announcements include Project Volterra, a new Windows-on-Arm effort built on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor.

Bosch to make billions with green tech – 5G, IoT, AI subsumed in green Industry 4.0 push

German industrial giant Bosch has shifted its messaging, perhaps, in time for Hannover Messe, Europe’s big industrial trade fair, which sees its return next week after three calendar years of pandemic and disruption. Very squarely, the message from Bosch in its pre-show strategy update...

Nvidia focuses on data centers with new ‘superchip,’ A100 offerings

Nvidia is focusing on improved data center processing power and efficiency with new "superchip" server reference designs and liquid cooling.

Augmented manufacturing: ‘The robots are your friends, not the enemy’

Humans are the key piece of successfully implementing digital change in augmented manufacturing Speaking during a World Economic Forum panel discussion today, industrial leaders drove home the point that the North Star for manufacturing isn’t full-on automation in a lights-out plant. Rather, the goal is...

Unplug-and-play – 5G is the future of factory automation (Reader Forum)

The latest developments in cloud-based AI and edge computing, coupled with 5G’s enhanced bandwidth, are about to mobilise robots like never before and unleash a manufacturing revolution, explains Richard Cockle, Global Head of IoT, Identity and Big Data at GSMA. Factory automation is on the...

French LoRa/Sigfox ag-tech startup Sencrop bags $18m to conquer the US

France-based precision agriculture startup Sencrop has raised $18 million in Series B funding, led by Israeli venture capital firm JVP. Sencrop, founded in 2016, headquartered in Lille, claims to be Europe’s leading provider of “field-connected solutions”, with 20,000 farmers in 20 countries, mainly in...

BT unveils new green edge compute solution

Working towards 2030 sustainability British Telecom (BT) this week announced a new edge compute solution as part of its manifesto to help customers reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 million tons by the year 2030. The new effort uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed by QiO...