Notes on craft, design, and the engineering work behind it. Long-form posts, short essays, and project debriefs.
Unplanned downtime is one of the most expensive surprises in industry, and most factories already have the sensor data that could warn them. Predictive maintenance promises to turn vibration, temperature …
Personalisation used to mean a carousel of products similar to what you just viewed. Today it shapes search ranking, pricing, push notifications and increasingly the conversational assistants that shoppers talk …
Mobile networks are some of the most complex machines humanity operates, with thousands of sites, millions of parameters and traffic that never sleeps. Operators are turning to AI to predict …
Generative AI can now write, voice and film convincingly, which is both a gift to newsrooms and a threat to the information ecosystem they serve. As synthetic media spreads, the …
Citizens judge governments by the quality of everyday services: registering a business, renewing a licence, getting a benefit paid. AI can cut queues and paperwork, but public-sector AI carries obligations …
Many African cities are growing faster than planners can map them. Satellite imagery, computer vision and spatial machine learning now make it possible to see where people live, how cities …
