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The Future Has Arrived: Uber Launches Self-Driving Taxis in London
View more: The Future Has Arrived: Uber Launches Self-Driving Taxis in LondonLondon’s busy and iconic streets are getting a major technological upgrade today. On September 3, 2026, Uber teamed up with British AI innovator Wayve to officially launch the city’s first self-driving taxi service. For Londoners calling a ride, the future is now just a tap away, though it comes with a characteristically British and cautious…
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Reflections from ICR’26: Data Science, Health Informatics, and Exploring Berlin
View more: Reflections from ICR’26: Data Science, Health Informatics, and Exploring BerlinI recently had the opportunity to travel from Spain to attend The Fifth International Conference on Innovations in Computing Research (ICR’26). The event was held in Berlin, Germany, spanning from August 24 to 26, 2026. It was a fantastic week filled with rigorous academic discussions, topped off with some much-needed sightseeing. Monday and Tuesday My…
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The Internet Is Becoming An App
View more: The Internet Is Becoming An AppI have been online long enough to remember when “the internet” and “the web” were different things, and when the web was genuinely a web. Pages linked to other pages and you could view the source of anything. The internet is becoming an app I have been online long enough to remember when “the internet“…
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The Hard Part Moved
View more: The Hard Part MovedWhy AI didn’t make programming easier, and what that means for anyone learning it now. I learned to program on a ZX Spectrum in the 80s, and an Amiga in the 90s, typing listings out of books and magazines, and getting them wrong in ways that could swallow an entire afternoon before I found the…
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The Chatbot Made a Promise.. the Airline Had to Keep It.
View more: The Chatbot Made a Promise.. the Airline Had to Keep It.I keep thinking about a fairly minor legal case from a couple of years back. Minor in the sense that it involved about eight hundred Canadian dollars and one grieving customer, not exactly a landmark. But it gets at something every organisation bolting AI onto its website is going to run into eventually, which is……
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Notes from INFOCOMP 2026 in Lisbon
View more: Notes from INFOCOMP 2026 in LisbonWriting this from Lisbon with INFOCOMP 2026 winding toward its close tomorrow. It has been a full week at the Mercure Lisboa for the DataSys 2026 cluster of conferences, and as a member of the steering committee I tend to arrive with a bias toward optimism about the program. This year’s edition really did deliver…
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Google Is Standing Up for Web Users – And It’s About Time
View more: Google Is Standing Up for Web Users – And It’s About TimeHave you ever clicked the back button on your browser and ended up somewhere completely unexpected? Instead of returning to your search results, you found yourself on an ad page, a recommendation feed, or some random destination you never asked to visit. You didn’t misclick. You weren’t confused. The website deliberately trapped you. This is…
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Remembering Sir Tony Hoare
View more: Remembering Sir Tony HoareA Life That Shaped Computer Science Earlier this month, the computing world lost one of its true giants. Sir Tony Hoare passed away on March 5th at the age of 92, leaving behind a body of work so vast that, as noted by the Communications of the ACM, had he accomplished just one of his…
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When the World’s Top Consultancy Gets Hacked by an AI Agent
View more: When the World’s Top Consultancy Gets Hacked by an AI AgentMcKinsey & Company – one of the most prestigious and well-resourced consulting firms on the planet – had its flagship AI platform, Lilli, comprehensively compromised. Not by a nation-state hacking group or a team of elite security researchers, but by an autonomous AI agent built by CodeWall.ai. The findings are a wake-up call for every…
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Ten Years of Docker
View more: Ten Years of DockerHow a Simple Idea Reshaped Software Development In 2013, Solomon Hykes took the stage at PyCon and introduced Docker to the world with a deceptively simple pitch: “Shipping code to the server is hard.” A decade later, that moment stands as one of the most consequential product launches in modern software history. With millions of…
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Robert Polding is an Assistant Vice Dean at a Spanish University. He is a father, researcher and environmental campaigner.
