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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.

Eligible passengers from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States will be able to use the ePassport gates at UK airports, and at Brussels and Paris Eurostar terminals, according to a government announcement.

Public support for autonomous cars remains at historic lows, a year on from a spate of fatal accidents. Chris Middleton reports