Researchers could soon enlist help from digital assistants to review vast swathes of literature, according to a new report on artificial intelligence. In tests run by academics at the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, simulated search agents went head-to-head with humans in a computer search challenge – and won.

Australia's leading and longest running residential smoke alarm specialist, Smoke Alarms Australia, has undertaken a major project to implement automated data capture and workflow.