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Digitisation is regarded by many as the fuel to accelerate recovery post-pandemic. But in a talk at London Tech Week, Mario Gruber, research fellow at King’s Business School and co-lead of the London and the South Productivity Forum, discussed why London and the South is failing...
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An uptick in the self-build activities of the hyperscale cloud giants in London has been flagged as a notable development in the second-quarter datacentre market tracker published by analyst house DC Byte.
The company’s Q2 market tracker data, published in partnership with real estate consultancy Knight...
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A wave of new BlackMatter ransomware attacks has hit multiple organisations around the world in the past few days, with notable new victims including media marketing services firm Marketron, French beverage company La Martiniquaise, and Iowa, US-based grain co-op New Cooperative.
The group, which also hit...
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I spend a lot of time lately thinking about a fungus called Pilobolus. It lives on dung, mostly from cows and horses, happily munching away, enriching the soil as it goes, until it starts to run out of dung to eat. Then something magical...
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The demographics of the industry are a big factor, Mr. Reynolds said.“Our newsrooms don’t reflect the diversity of the country, and folks in editing roles are even less diverse,” said Mr. Reynolds, whose organization works with journalists of color. “Until journalism corrects this, we...
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Solid-state storage maker Kioxia has announced the FL6 BiCS4 XL-Flash, which uses single level cell (SLC) NAND flash to provide performance and endurance for applications such as storage-class memory and to rival Intel’s Optane product.
Kioxia’s FL6 BiCS4 XL-Flash provides a claimed read throughput of...
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While the need to have an ID card stirs protest in many countries, Estonia has used a digital version as the foundation of its strategy to lead the world in digital government.
The people of Estonia, particularly older generations, could be forgiven for fearing an ID...
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The UK government has announced a five-point digital strategy aimed at improving international digital trade for businesses and consumers and future-proofing the sector.
New secretary of state for international trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, announced the strategy during a speech at London Tech Week’s Global Leaders Innovation Summit...
Source is New York Times
The dating service OkCupid has introduced a way for users to clearly indicate their support of abortion rights: a “pro-choice” badge that appears prominently in a dating profile.Melissa Hobley, OkCupid’s chief marketing officer, said the feature was created in response to the passage of...
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Concerns about trust and regulatory compliance are slowing down the adoption of predictive analytics in financial services.
This is according to research from data analytics firm Qlik, carried out by Censuswide in June and July 2021. Of the 503 financial services professionals surveyed, 200 were in...
