Virtual reality (VR) is being used to help prospective brain surgeons train and see procedures in unprecedented detail. Surgeons training to work on the brain have typically struggled getting hands-on experience thanks to the inaccessibility of neurosurgery. Barts Health NHS Trust surgeon Alex Alamri and other clinicians at the Royal London Hospital recently conducted the...

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UK autonomous car startup FiveAI has received nearly £27 million in funding, from both government and private investors. The Cambridge based, research-intensive firm, says it is “well on its way” to creating tech that will allow vehicles to autonomously deal with busy roads, including pedestrians and cyclists. FiveAI CEO Stan Boland identified the company’s aim...

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Ride sharing startup Via has raised a large funding round in an attempt to expand outside of the U.S. The exact total amount of funding has not been disclosed, but it has been reported to be around $250 million (approx. £192.8 million). $50 million of this has come from German automotive group Daimler, which owns...

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Samsung has announced its plan to connect all of its products in order to create a ‘hyper-connected world.’ The South Korean giant is looking to take advantage of its unusual position, noting that it ‘is one of the few global companies that covers everything from IT and home appliances to integral abilities and components.’ In...

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One of Europe’s biggest tech shows is back. Mixed reality headsets, wearables in business and 3D scanning phones are just some of the gadgets on show at IFA 2017, held in Berlin. Playing host to major names such as Microsoft, Samsung, Sony and Dell, the show exhibits cutting-edge products, mostly consumer, though many of them...

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New research from Accenture shows that £218 million has been invested in insurance technology startups in the first half of 2017 – up from £7.8 million the previous year. This represents an increase of over 2500% in year-over-year figures. Investment in insurance technology startups, or insurtech, have been bolstered by some recent, extremely large investments...

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Amazon and Microsoft’s smart assistants will now be able to talk to each other, making them accessible from new devices and able to work together. In a collaborative project between the two giants, it means that customers soon will be able to turn to their Echo device and ask Alexa to open Cortana, or turn...

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Hugh Owen, senior vice president at MicroStrategy, discusses the business benefits of delivering an effective Enterprise IoT strategy The Internet of Things (IoT) has gained popularity as a cool concept pertaining to smart devices that expedite or automate daily life – from brewing coffee, to turning off the lights, to breathing mindfully. Amazon’s Echo Alexa has...

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