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Chris Middleton reports on how sensors are at bay in the heart of Silicon Valley as one city takes a stand against facial recognition systems.

Chris Middleton reports on how the UK prison service is using sensors to track the illegal use of phones. Justice Secretary David Gauke has announced the installation of new mobile phone detection technology in UK prisons.

Hot on the heels of news reports about Amazon employing thousands of staff to listen to Alexa voice recordings, the World Economic Forum has published its own view on the security risks of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

British AI and autonomous driving tech company Wayve has claimed that its algorithm is learning to drive like a human being – using just cameras and a satnav, rather than an onboard sensor suite and hand-coded rules.

British sensors and other core technologies are critical parts of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission, which currently has a craft in orbit around Mars, with a rover due to land on the planet in two years’ time.

British artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous shared transport company FiveAI is testing autonomous cars in south London.