Robots crush career opportunities for low-skilled workers They also boost support for populist politicians, study finds Offbeat08 Nov 2024 | 84
The case for handcrafted software in a mass-produced world Part 2 As AI automates programming, it could be worth exploring the value of bespoke code Software18 Sep 2024 | 39
The future of software? Imagine a bot, stamping on a human face – forever Part 1 Automation is driving the next wave of commoditization, threatening to replace skilled workers Software16 Sep 2024 | 59
Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Japan's bullet trains to ditch drivers The Shinkansen have operated without fatalities for sixty years – how hard can it be? AI + ML12 Sep 2024 | 125
iGulu F1 could be the hoppy ending to your home-brew horror show Review Good things come to those who wait – and have deep pockets Offbeat01 Sep 2024 | 35
VMware prepping unified SDK for its core hybrid cloud products VMware Explore Also working to clean up inconsistent APIs and lack of SSO across vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SDDC Manager, vRealize and more Virtualization26 Aug 2024 | 1
AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care Column Everyone knows automation will happen, which is why everyone needs proof of human involvement AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 117
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe packs rocks and rolls back to Earth Tasks on far side of the Moon were heavily automated Science04 Jun 2024 | 4
BMW calls for vendor openness in quest to mine its own processes 'Software companies try to extend their reach and their usage, but this can't be by locking in users,' says process mining lead Applications25 Apr 2024 | 12
Healthcare AI won't take jobs – it'll make nursing easier, says process automation founder Interview Something's gotta give in short-staffed, overworked healthcare industry, reckons Thoughtful cofounder and CPO AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 21
Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves Study finds workers' sense of meaningfulness and autonomy declines with automation Science07 Apr 2024 | 18
Cloudflare says it has automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often 'Error budget' and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed Off-Prem26 Mar 2024 | 14
ServiceNow goes to Washington DC, with a suitcase full of AI Claims the tech has brought 38 percent improvement to its own dev cycle time Software21 Mar 2024 | 3
South Korea opens the door for robots to roam among pedestrians They'll have a top speed of 15km/h and need insurance before they roll Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 27
Woo-hoo, UK ahead of Europe in this at least – enterprise IT automation But plenty of tech folk wish management would just leave them alone CxO07 Nov 2023 | 12
Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army Black Mirror? Never heard of it Bootnotes30 Aug 2023 | 34
LLMs appear to reason by analogy, a cornerstone of human thinking How they do it remains a mystery, say boffins in research paper AI + ML31 Jul 2023 | 27
Chipotle welcomes you to the age of robot guacamole Avocado prep time could be cut in half, but it still won't change the price Bootnotes13 Jul 2023 | 15
Watchdog calls for automatic braking to be standard in cars When's the perfect time for a mandate? When everyone's already doing it Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 100
OpenAI's Sam Altman rattles tin for crypto startup that will support bot-replaced workers Idea is to scan irises to disburse universal basic income just for being human Offbeat16 May 2023 | 20
Rise of the machines is slower than expected says World Economic Forum Don't get too comfortable, machines are doing more thinking AI + ML03 May 2023 | 27
Waymo robo taxis rack up a million miles without killing anyone It works! Now let's cut staff by 8% AI + ML02 Mar 2023 | 13
Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets DragonFly designed to land and taxi when the pilot is incapacitated, or just busy AI + ML13 Jan 2023 | 155
Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot This is despite a wealth of evidence showing the value of having two in the cockpit Personal Tech21 Nov 2022 | 164
People still seem to think their fancy cars are fully self-driving This is despite a history of assistive software being involved in crashes AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 123
Teams of aerial drones might one day help to build houses Wasp-like technique could be used to 3D-print structures in that remote place you plan to retire in Science23 Sep 2022 | 19
Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030 1.5 million machines and half a billion acres of land connected to the John Deere Operations Center within a matter of years Software12 Sep 2022 | 88
Amazon to buy Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7b Updated Bezos empire continues to clean up, but did it pick the proper postulates? Personal Tech05 Aug 2022 | 65
Automation outfit ABB sees supply chain woes easing How can you have these worries as a software business? Just ask Cisco Software21 Jul 2022 |
IBM CEO explains why he offloaded Watson Health: Not enough domain expertise And not enough customers, Shirley? AI + ML08 Jun 2022 | 14
TomTom to chop 10% of workforce, blames automation tech Improvements in mapmaking platform to cost 500 employees their future at geolocation tech provider Applications01 Jun 2022 | 40
Fully automated AI networks less than 5 years away, reckons Juniper CEO You robot kids, get off my LAN AI + ML14 May 2022 | 20
Worried about being replaced by a robot? Become a physicist Scientists develop algorithm that decides if your job can just be an algorithm Science30 Apr 2022 | 56
Insteon's vanishing act explained: Smart home biz insolvent, sells off assets Acknowledgement of shutdown almost a week after backend powered off Edge + IoT22 Apr 2022 | 60
Qlik moves to boost position in crowded automation space during IPO year Interview Initial boom in data vizualization, but CEO Mike Capone says it needs to 'play nice' to win in new segment Software13 Apr 2022 | 3
California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software Automated HR in the cross-hairs over discrimination law AI + ML07 Apr 2022 | 16
Boston Dynamics' latest robot is a warehouse workhorse When does this thing get to unionize? Science02 Apr 2022 | 37
Puppet publishes DevOps salaries report Gender pay gap narrows, but the US remains top of pay-packet pops Devops30 Mar 2022 |
Celonis buys German process miner with Power BI links in $100m deal Move follows Microsoft's own tools to find out how things are really done Applications29 Mar 2022 | 2
ServiceNow jumps into RPA with imminent 'San Diego' release Will bring bots to workflow users, perhaps not with the same precision RPA specialists muster Software24 Mar 2022 | 1
Oracle sees automation opportunity in healthcare following pandemic Doctor Ellison says big wins in the sector influenced decision to buy health records outfit Cerner Databases11 Mar 2022 | 5
Google's DeepMind says its AI coding bot is 'competitive' with humans Gulp! Code that codes displays some critical thinking capabilities AI + ML03 Feb 2022 | 82
Baidu's AI predictions for 2022: Autonomous driving! Quantum computing! Space! Human-machine symbiosis! Did a computer program tell them to write this? AI + ML25 Jan 2022 | 5
The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst Ageing populations, competition, cost-cutting and COVID-19 driving increased adoption Software20 Jan 2022 | 81
What will the factory of the future look like? Let's start with Intel, Red Hat, and 5G Analysis Machine-to-machine communications, AI, DevOps tech all coming together AI + ML03 Nov 2021 | 16
When AI and automation come to work you stress less – but hate your job more It's better to work for the Man than the Machine AI + ML29 Oct 2021 | 5
Emerson merges software units with 'industrial AI' for oilfields firm AspenTech in $11bn deal Yes the same mega-org at centre of Facebook data centre trade secrets spat Software12 Oct 2021 |
Taxpayers foot the bill: HMRC signs up Cognizant for £150m low-code, automation project Brit tax collection agency's IT estate contains 'significant risk' Software13 Aug 2021 | 2
India’s IT lobby lashes forecast of automation-induced jobs bloodbath NASSCOM says industry has already weathered the worst automation has to offer, but may use different definitions of where jobs are at risk Software21 Jun 2021 | 3
There's nothing AI and automation can't solve – except bias and inequality in the workplace, says report RoTM Nope, it just makes them worse AI + ML15 Dec 2020 | 12
Automation software slinger SaltStack warns of stop-watching-the-election-and-patch-now bugs Fixes look to have landed in GitHub well ahead of disclosure Security04 Nov 2020 |
Amazon-like megacorps dominating various online sectors could become norm for pandemic-stricken planet Certain business models work better than others when most people avoid human contact SaaS12 Oct 2020 | 9
Bot herder of a different kind: Open sourcer Camunda buffs up RPA platform in an overcrowded market Someone's got to wrangle all the automation now Microsoft and pals have joined the act Science09 Oct 2020 | 4
With the robotic process automation market taking off, it wouldn't be like Microsoft to not grab a slice of the action Ignite Redmond to take baby steps on desktop while established vendors turn gaze to enterprise deployments Software23 Sep 2020 | 1
DevOps pilgrim Progress forks out $220m for automation crew Chef It's our fourth chapter, says CEO Crist Devops08 Sep 2020 | 4
AWS adds database on-ramp to its Arm-powered instances Automation tool RDS can now push MySQL and PostgreSQL onto Arm, MariaDB coming soon Databases03 Aug 2020 |
Pandemic has a silver lining for Brit automation merchant Blue Prism: Revenue up 70% for first half of fiscal 2020 Makes sense while enterprises wrestle with new ways of working Science24 Jun 2020 |
More automation to suddenly look like a jolly good idea as businesses struggle through coronavirus crisis, say analysts I, for one, welcome our robot replacements... Wait, no I don't Science13 May 2020 | 28
Non-human Microsoft Office users get their own special licences Automated operators can pay up like anyone – or anything – else Software07 May 2020 | 23
Nutanix issues solid Q3 preview but also yanks mid-term targets 'A new company will emerge from this pandemic' says CEO On-Prem06 May 2020 | 2
Process miner Celonis pushes out application tools to tighten up how they're used in anger Better look into how users don't use software the way biz thinks they do Software30 Apr 2020 | 4
Salt peppered with holes? Automation tool vulnerable to auth bypass: Patch now 'The impact is full remote command execution as root on both master and all minions' Security30 Apr 2020 | 5