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Nokia is located in the Anticipa technology park in Lannion, which alone accounts for 45% of French telecom research. After many ups and downs, it announced on November 4 the launch of its European Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity, a project that was envisaged as early as 20...

A three-year research project conducted by a UMons team as part of a project led by the start-up MoodMe has focused on analysing the “emotions” of participants. Artificial intelligence, which is already used to analyze images for the purpose of identifying people, is ...

Building on the success of the pilot session that ended on October 15, which delivered the first level 7 certifications (bac+5), IMT Nord Europe is planning its 2nd session for 2022. The creation of the AI Project Manager certification by IMT Nord Europe is part of the employment...

The two French software companies are pooling their know-how, expertise and resources, and are looking to move towards the customer marketing of tomorrow. Stéphane Amarsy is appointed Chairman of the Board and Mireille Messine is appointed CEO of the new entity. Over the past thr...

A study, published on Monday 25 October, commissioned by the Green group in the European Parliament, which advocates a total ban on biometric recognition systems in public spaces, recently warned of the impact of this technology on fundamental rights. Facial recognition allows a ...

How can we improve the management of skin wounds and their follow-up? This is the question that the young start-up Pixacare has addressed. Its skin pathology monitoring platform, deployed in more than ten hospitals in France, supports more than 14,000 patients. The start-up from ...

The World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF) will take place from February 10 to 12, 2022 on the French Riviera, in Cannes, in person and online. With the aim of connecting the best AI players to drive positive change in business and society, this international event will bring the ecosy...

Founded in 2012 on a university campus, the dating platform has become the most used app in the world in its field. It is now available in 190 countries and multiple languages and has been downloaded over 430 million times. To further protect its users, the Tinder platform has im...

The Institut Henri Poincaré is organizing an AI conference on November 16 and 17, 2021, an event around the challenges of artificial intelligence research and the diversity of fields in which it is used. On the program: presentations, exchanges and scientific conversations, from ...

The start-up Aviwell specializes in hybrid artificial intelligence and biotechnical solutions that have enabled it to develop naturally fatty liver, i.e. without force-feeding. The start-up has chosen the Toulouse White Biotechnology (TWB) laboratory of the INRAE Occitanie-Toulou...

The new Klover platform allows users to explore the vegetation of the world’s major cities, which is essential for combating the effects of climate change. With this online site, which can be consulted at klover.city, Kermap demonstrates how the use and analysis of satellit...

Space fascinates and to better observe it, projects are set up. Among the most notorious at the moment are the James Webb spacecraft, which is due to be launched on 18 December, and the Square Kilometer Array or SKAO observatory. A team from the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and...

On November 16 and 17, 2021, two days of presentations, exchanges and scientific conversations will be held at the Institut Henri Poincaré and online, dedicated to the challenges of artificial intelligence research and the diversity of fields in which it is used. From environment...

Envision Digital International PTE Ltd (Envision Digital) and Bureau Veritas have announced a partnership to develop Net Zero innovations for greenhouse gas emissions reduction and renewable energy production. The two companies aim to provide standardized, certifiable and verifia...

The Digital Europe programme aims to bring digital technology to citizens, businesses and public administrations. To this end, €7.5 billion has been earmarked to support projects in five key areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills an...

This November 12 is the second day of the annual Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) 2021 Summit, led this year by Inria. This event will allow international experts to present their work around the five GPAI working groups: Responsible AI, Data Governance, Future of Work, Innovation...

H2O.ai is a start-up that aims to democratize artificial intelligence. This AI solution is focused on adding value to businesses, is completely open source and is used by more than 20,000 companies worldwide. At the end of last week, H2O.ai announced that it had raised $100 milli...

The Nvidia 2021 Global GTC takes place from November 8-11. The event is attended by over 200,000 developers, innovators, researchers and designers worldwide. On the agenda: deep learning, data science, high performance computing, robotics, network data centers and graphics. Durin...

The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) was created to ensure the responsible development and use of AI, in line with the OECD Principles on AI. The GPAI experts are working on the creation of a “Living Lab” to better understand the practices of the f...

Developed by Cortexx Medical Intelligence, the SuMO solution for “Surgery Medical Outcome” integrates the personal data of each patient to ensure personalized follow-up and thus guarantee them better chances of long-term recovery. An initial predictive study to evalua...

The American company Qualcomm is a recognized specialist in the market of chips for premium android smartphones. To boost the performance of these processors for 3G, 4G and 5G smartphones, it announced four new Snapdragons processors in late October. Although the smartphone marke...

Amazon has won a contract, via its AWS Cloud platform, estimated at between 500 million and one billion pounds (600 million to 1.2 billion euros) with the British secret services, which want to consolidate all their sensitive data. According to the Financial Times , the aim is to...

To ensure that “France does not miss the train of artificial intelligence”, Emmanuel Macron had announced in March 2018 a plan of 1.5 billion euros to develop the ecosystem of artificial intelligence and attract new researchers. Part of the measures announced were ins...

The CSEM Digital Journey 2021 prizes were awarded on November1 at the launch conference of the Forward event organized by EPFL (École polythechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Le Temps and PME Magazine. Created in 2018, this competition rewards two projects in each of its editions. I...

Waiting at a traffic light because it’s red when no cars are in sight may seem stupid, but the driver has to do it if he doesn’t want to break the traffic law and possibly get fined. The gasoline consumed during this wait may seem negligible but it contributes to the ...

The SKA project’s radio astronomy observatory is announced as one of the largest machines on earth. It will span a square kilometre, as its name suggests: Square Kilometer Array. SKAO, the SKA observatory, will provide scientists with data of unprecedented quality, quantity...

Milestone Systems, a provider of open platform IP Video Management Systems (VMS) software, and NVIDIA, a global hardware provider, announced last month a partnership to bring artificial intelligence to the heart of cities. Combining their expertise, they will offer two online con...

Adaptiv’Langue is a language learning application that offers each student a personalized learning experience. Developed by EvidenceB, it uses the digital workspaces (ENT) of a general and technological high school and a vocational high school in the New Aquitaine region. T...

Bpifrance and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) present a new sector note aimed at boosting the financing of deeptechs, companies and start-ups that offer disruptive innovations by creating new products or services. These technologies are proposed to meet the challenges...

The result of scientific work carried out over the last 3 years by teams from the Nancy CHRU (Centre d’Investigation Clinique – Plurithématique) and Loria, e’VM is a new tool for predicting the risk of heart failure. Created with Artificial Intelligence from the...

The Big Data & AI World Paris exhibition will take place on 23-24 November 2021 for two days dedicated to data and artificial intelligence. Co-organized in a new format with Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud & Cybersecurity, DevOps Live and Data Centre World Paris, this French Bto...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have reported that specific electrical stimulation of the brain using artificial intelligence techniques can improve certain human brain functions related to mental flexibility and self-control. The study is the result of ...

Ten days ago, Pierre Fitzibbon, Minister of the Economy and Innovation, accompanied by Danielle McCann, Minister of Higher Education, and André Lamontagne, came to see a prototype of SAMI 4.0 designed for the harvesting of broccoli, in a field of Coustineau Gardens, in Saint-Cons...

The partnership between IBM and Crédit Mutuel began 50 years ago. The two companies have strengthened this strategic collaboration with the creation of AmbitionS, a new centre of technological excellence in Strasbourg, the result of an agreement between IBM and Euro-Information, ...

OnNovember 2,Cedric O, Secretary of State for Digital Transition and Electronic Communications, presented an industrial plan to support the French Cloud industry. This is the third pillar of the strategy for the cloud announced in May 2021. Based on the observation that the cloud...

Several million euros will be devoted to the creation of a continuous learning space in digital technologies, announced Jean Boulet, Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity and Minister responsible for the Mauricie region, and Danielle McCann, Minister of Higher Educ...

AWS today launched the Startup Loft Accelerator, a virtual 10-week, no-cost accelerator program for startups in EMEA. Participants will receive personalized training and access to experienced advisors, subject matter experts, investors and some of the world’s most successfu...

ALTIR, the Lorraine association for the treatment of renal failure, develops treatment methods for patients suffering from renal failure. Present in the four departments of Lorraine, it enables kidney patients to undergo dialysis close to home. It must therefore store confidentia...

INRIA (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology) and Harris Interactive France (marketing studies and opinion polls) conducted a survey on French confidence in digital science and technology. They revealed the results of this double survey conducted among...

Based in Sophia Antipolis, AI Verse is developing new technology to help companies efficiently train their Deep Learning networks and create future vision-based applications. The company, which specializes in Deep Learning solutions for the computer vision market, has just comple...

Financial institutions must comply with the latest regulations, deal with an unstable market, different hybrid work models, new communication media: wrong choices can have serious consequences for companies. To help them avoid these mistakes, NICE Actimize, a NICE company, has an...

The banking, finance and insurance sectors have been undergoing a definite transformation for over ten years. Their teams must transform themselves, comply with new regulations, confront new competitors, new expectations from their customers, new technologies and must rethink the...

The DigitalWallonia4.AI programme, launched in July 2019, aims to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and develop the Walloon ecosystem. It supports companies wishing to integrate AI, conducts awareness-raising actions among public services, companies and the Wallo...

In April 2019, HYDRO, Implicity’s project, was one of the ten winners of the first call for projects of the Health Data Club (HDH) and obtained in May 2020 the authorization of the CNIL to be implemented. It is therefore the first project to access the Health Data Club̵...

This year’s Soph.I.A. Summit will take place from November 17 to 19, 2021. Organized by the Université Côte d’Azur, the Communauté d’Agglomération de Sophia Antipolis and the Sophia Club Entreprises, with the support of the Alpes Maritimes department, this 4th e...

France Num, an initiative led by the French General Directorate for Enterprises (DGE), presented Alain Griset, Minister Delegate for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, with the first 2021 barometer of VSEs/SMEs (0 to 249 employees). Conducted by CREDOC (Centre de recherche pour ...

NATO’s 30 nations are committed to ensuring the freedom and security of their alliance members. Created in 1949, NATO must adapt to an increasingly complex and ever-changing security environment, and the international organization has been paying more attention to emerging ...

In recent years, natural disasters seem to increase and follow one another at an exponential rate. Whether it is the devastating fires in California, Australia or Canada last summer, which resulted in an episode of intense smog, or the torrential rains that fell in Belgium severa...

According to Reuters, Softbank, after putting a halt to the production of the Peppers robots created in 2014, has entered into talks with United Robotics to sell its French robotics division. The humanoid robot Pepper has not been the commercial success it was hoped for and Softb...

On Monday 25 October, during the visit of the Sileane group in Saint-Etienne, Emmanuel Macron announced that the France 2030 investment plan would allocate 800 million euros to the robotics sector. 400 million will go to support industrial site projects, the other half of the env...

ARM designed chips are used in fields ranging from Artificial Intelligence to 5G (almost all smartphones are equipped with them). ARM has already sold more than 200 billion of them and continues to expand its application areas. The next generation GPU is planned for 2022, its arc...

The race for artificial intelligence continues and the United States is seeking to strengthen its leadership in the field in the face of a China that aspires to dominate the sector. Decision-makers at major technology companies are looking to the Federal Government to create a &#...

What future for e-commerce? Faced with the pandemic, globalization, new consumer expectations, especially regarding the environmental impact and the web2store, retail is evolving. Artificial intelligence tools developed to meet these challenges exist, but have professionals taken...

During a visit to UTAC in Essonne, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister Delegate for Transport, and Guillaume Boudy, Secretary General for Investment, launched the “Digitalisation and Decarbonisation of Mobilities” acceleration strategy, which has been allocated €570 mill...

Shift Technology has unveiled the third volume of its Shift Insurance Perspectivesreport. Belonging to the very closed club of unicorns, the company founded in 2014 in Paris uses artificial intelligence and advanced data science techniques to detect suspicious behavior during cla...

On the sidelines of the GPAI (Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence), the French Tech Grand Paris is organizing Paris AI Week: two weeks during which France is showcasing its artificial intelligence ecosystem by bringing together researchers, entrepreneurs and public deci...