Met Police claims series of Oxford Circus arrests in facial-recognition deployment
London force claims success from use of controversial technology, which was accompanied by public information effort – as well as protestors
DCMS seeks social media monitoring firm to help ‘build comprehensive picture of misinformation’
Department floats 10-month contract worth half a million pounds
Turing Institute to lead development of AI standards
Government-backed project will also incorporate input from BSI and NPL
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Local authorities must invest in AI and smart technology to overcome a multibillion-pound funding gap, a new report claims. Which cities and regions are ahead of the pack?
Report urges government to retrain a million industrial workers in digital tech
BEIS-commissioned study claims embracing industrial digitalisation technology could boost economy by £455bn in next 10 years
Technology will augment - not replace - public-service professionals
Nesta’s Hasan Bakhshi and Eddie Copeland examine the impact on the UK public sector workforce of a range of global trends
Interview: ODI unpacks plans for three-year data odyssey
Open Data Institute head of policy Peter Wells talks PublicTechnology through the organisation’s plans for investing its new £6m package of government funding
Pepper the robot joins Southend’s social care team
Essex town to deploy humanoid robot to help deliver services
MoD and Home Office put £1.6m into robot and drone projects for hazardous environments
Four UK tech SMEs have received backing for technologies designed to safely assess the potential presence of dangerous matter
Do Aylesbury Vale and Alexa have the ‘skill’ for better services?
Aylesbury Vale council’s IT lead Maryvonne Hassall talks to Gill Hitchcock about the potential gains – and pitfalls – of adopting AI in local government
Don’t fear the robots – tech automation to have less impact on public sector jobs, report claims
Study from Nesta and Oxford University predicts that the civil service and wider public sector will see fewer jobs lost to automation than other industries
‘I cannot buy a promise’ – strategy chief of UK’s fastest-growing city on the challenges facing smart cities
After concluding a three-year programme, Milton Keynes is working out how best to proceed with smart-city technology
Cabinet Office launches £4m project to drive use of software robots across civil service
Supplier Capgemini to train civil servants and help departments develop RPA applications
BBC trials artificial-intelligence and voice-recognition technology for iPlayer
Broadcaster envisions future where users converse with their television
Robotics revolution: why chatbots and AI could shake up local government
Enfield Council’s lead technology adviser Rocco Labellarte says the authority’s chatbot is attracting international attention and is about to transform services and release resources. Gill Hitchcock reports
'It's not a choice between privacy or innovation', ICO tells NHS trusts
After Royal Free is found to have breached Data Protection Act, information commissioner Elizabeth Denham offers four-point checklist for other trusts in their use of technology and data
Robots, connectivity and digital skills: progress on digital in Scotland
"At the end of the day, the services are all the same, so if you’re doing bins from Shetland to Glasgow to the Borders, we all do similar services"
Impact of AI on UK jobs market divides opinion, says BT survey
BT finds that IT Directors disagree over whether Artificial Intelligence will create or displace jobs
TfL launches on Facebook Messenger with TravelBot
TravelBot will give passengers up-to-date information on their Transport for London journeys
Robotics and AI get £93m in Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
Business secretary Greg Clark announces spending breakdown for first areas to receive investment through the fund