Chris Middleton specialises in robotics, AI, automation, the IoT, Industry 4.0, autonomous transport & drones, blockchain, finance, space technologies, and technology strategy & ethics. He is former editor of InternetOfBusiness.com, Computing, Computer Business Review, Professional Outsourcing (which he co-founded, now known as Intelligent Sourcing), Hack & Craft News, and UCInsight, among others, and is a contributing editor to diginomica, Computing, TransformIndustry, and TransformFinance.
Chris Middleton looks at a torrid week for alternative finance.
Does the latest academic treatise on ethical robotics and AI really tell us anything new?
The inside story on an overlooked US acquisition of a UK technology success.
If RPA doesn’t achieve what you want, this company says it will give you your money back. Should the IT industry be quaking in its boots?
Many of the issues around AI and ethics are understood, but what practical steps should we take to protect citizens?
A key policy voice sets out what she believes should happen next in rolling out the government’s AI Strategy.
The UK is helping a robot launch a future vision of autonomous sea transport. What are the advantages and risks of this new technology?
The UK's done remarkably well in quantum computing to date, but what's needed now to make that sustainable?
The second of two reports on the UK’s Online Safety Bill. What does the communications regulator make of it?
Big tech platforms give their take on the incoming Online Safety Bill. Is it fair comment, or just a game of corporate lobbying bingo?
America has made a belated move to forge a policy response to cryptocurrencies and digital assets.
At a Westminster eForum on government digital transformation, we ask the questions: What’s it all for? And what are the barriers to achieving it?
Why have Whitehall’s digital transformation plans created a huge white elephant? The end result? Thousands of government jobs, but precious little else.
