07.06.2019

European Commission awards Catalan capital one of three new supercomputers in 2021

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has been chosen to host and operate one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe from 2021, the European Commission has announced.

The BSC, with the support of five EU member states as well as the Catalan government, won the commission alongside teams from Finland and Italy as part of a pioneering continent-wide plan to compete with the USA, China and Japan as major international players in supercomputing.

The EU has pledged a total of 840 million euros –...

Anthony Elliott

Julie Hare

When you’re lost, Siri can be your best friend. But if she can’t retrieve the right address from your contacts, she can drive you crazy.

And so it is with the legion of virtual personal assistants that are entering our lives. From Amazon’s Alexa to Google’s Home, people are busy talking to intelligent machines as never before.

It’s estimated that more than 60% of internet traffic is now generated by machine-to-machine, and person-to-machine, communication. IT advisory firm Gartner has predicted that by 2020 the average person will be having more conversations with robots than with...

by Will Knight

Can the world’s great powers agree on rules of the road for artificial intelligence?

This week, AI experts, politicians, and CEOs will gather to ask an important question: Can the United States, China, or anyone else agree on how artificial intelligence should be used and controlled?

The World Economic Forum, the international organization that brings together the world’s rich and powerful to discuss global issues at Davos each year, will host the event in San Francisco.

The WEF will also announce the creation of an “AI Council” designed to find common ground on...

Barcelona, May 23, 2019 – Fractus Antennas (NN) and its Virtual Antenna™ technology will contribute to the 5GBarcelona initiative to transform Barcelona into a metropolitan 5G testing laboratory.

5GBarcelona initiative aims to turn the city of Barcelona into one of the European innovation hubs within the area of 5G, to validate technologies and services. Barcelona has the requirements to become the leading 5G hub for Southern Europe and Fractus Antennas will contribute with its antenna expertise and the new and innovative Virtual Antenna™ technology that perfectly matches with the...