The Wall Street JournalA hotel in Japan hyped as the world's first robot-staffed hotel has eliminated more than half of its robots due to mounting complaints. The Henn na, or "Strange," Hotel, whose goal was to address labor shortages with robots, as well as appeal to foreign tourists with its unique concept, experienced frequent robot malfunctions that increased overtime for human staff. Adding to guests' frustration was the robots' inability to keep pace with popular digital assistants like […]

The Telegraph (United Kingdom) Security concerns have prompted Oxford University in the U.K. to sever ties with Huawei and indefinitely suspend acceptance of the Chinese tech company's gifts and research sponsorships. An email sent to computer science doctoral students at the university said the Committee to Review Donations will reconsider this decision in three to six months. According to one source, the decision was spurred by a Telegraph story in December citing lawmakers on the Foreign […]

ZDNetThe World Economic Forum (WEF) has listed large-scale cyberattacks and massive data breaches among the five most probable risks facing the world today. WEF cited cyberattacks for their potential to hobble critical infrastructure, ranking them fifth most likely to occur this year, while data breaches ranked fourth. Moreover, 82% of individuals polled by WEF see an elevated risk of cyberattacks leading to the theft of money and data, and 80% said the risk of cyberattacks causing operational […]

MIT NewsMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a tool for nonstatisticians that automatically generates models for analyzing raw data. The tool takes in datasets and generates sophisticated statistical models normally used by experts to analyze, interpret, and predict underlying patterns in data. The tool currently resides on Jupyter Notebook, an open source Web framework that allows users to run programs interactively in browsers; users can write just a few […]

CNNWalgreens is partnering with Microsoft to develop new healthcare delivery models, technology, and retail innovations to advance and improve the future of healthcare. The companies plan to combine the reach of Walgreens' more than 8,000 U.S. stores and retail locations worldwide with the power of Microsoft's Azure platform. As part of the partnership, Walgreens plans to roll out a dozen pilot "digital health corners” in 2019 that are aimed at the merchandising and sale of select […]