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Networking problems are on course to overtake power supply issues as the most common source of datacentre outages, as enterprises look to move more of their workloads to the cloud, according to the Uptime Institute.
The datacentre resiliency thinktank’s third Annual outage analysis seeks to shine...
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Facebook on Monday said it planned to limit posts that contain misinformation and hate speech related to the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd, to keep them from spilling over into real-world harm.As closing...
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The Competitions and Market Authority (CMA) has been asked by the government to investigate Nvidia’s £31bn acquisition of chipmaker Arm.
The CMA had already said it would be looking at the effect on competition in the UK if Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm were to go ahead....
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The BBC has appointed new leadership for its digital and technology functions, succeeding Matthew Postgate who left the corporation earlier this year.
Storm Fagan will join in September as chief product officer, leading the development and delivery of the broadcaster’s audience-facing digital products, including the BBC...
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Google has partnered with Siemens to combine deep domain expertise in manufacturing with artificial intelligence (AI). The partnership aims to provide manufacturing with a way to deploy AI at the edge on manufacturing production lines in a way that can scale globally.
In a video showcasing how...
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The fall in the number of women participating in the global labour force is “troubling”, but enterprises could seize on this trend to help plug the cloud-related skills gaps in their companies, claims Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) vice-president of worldwide public sector, Max Peterson.
During the...
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The first three months of this year saw a record investment in UK financial technology (fintech) firms as confidence returns after a cautious year for investors.
According to the figures from Innovate Finance, the quarter saw $2.9bn invested, which was over four times higher than the...
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Cloud storage market newcomer GoodCloud is on a mission to provide charities and social enterprises with a tailor-made, cost-effective means of managing their online data repositories.
The Stevenage-based startup was setup two years ago by Russell Marriott and Jason Ellis – who serve as the firm’s...
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Technology recruitment in the UK is at its highest pace since 2019, according to a quarterly index of UK tech sector performance by consulting firm KPMG.
The UK tech sector continued to hire during Q1 2021, despite a jolt to activity at the start of the...
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“The pandemic has really put the streamers head to head with theatrical distribution,” said James Moore, chief executive of Vine Alternative Investments, an asset manager focused on the entertainment industry. “Now you’re seeing the economics really accelerate towards the streamers, and they have both...
