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“Saying ‘Oh, there’s locusts in northern Kenya’ doesn’t help at all,” Mr. Cressman said. “We need longitude and latitude coordinates in real time.”Rather than try to rewrite the locust-tracking software for newer tablets, Mr. Cressman thought it would be more efficient to create a...
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has scrapped a £40m cloud deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that was set to run until August 2022, and replaced it with a three-year deal worth £94m with the supplier, Computer Weekly has learned.
The reworked deal is understood to...
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HSBC and JP Morgan have revealed more about their plans for mixed-working models following the changes forced upon them during the current Covid-19 pandemic.
The banks’ plans demonstrate that there will be no simple one-size-fits-all working model of the future.
When the pandemic emerged over a...
Source is New York Times
The union seeking to represent workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama said late Wednesday that there were 3,215 ballots cast — or about 55 percent of the roughly 5,800 workers who were eligible to vote.The ballots are expected to be counted by hand...
Source is New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — On Etsy, eBay, Facebook and Twitter, little rectangular slips of paper started showing up for sale in late January. Printed on card stock, they measured three-by-four inches and featured crisp black lettering. Sellers listed them for $20 to $60 each, with...
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HSINCHU, Taiwan — Chuang Cheng-deng’s modest rice farm is a stone’s throw from the nerve center of Taiwan’s computer chip industry, whose products power a huge share of the world’s iPhones and other gadgets.This year, Mr. Chuang is paying the price for his high-tech...
Jan van Boesschoten
The innovation files 1Imagine, we could fast forward to 2050 and from there look back over the last past 30 years. Would we be happy, would we conclude that we nailed the big questions of the early twenties? Would we be proud and celebrate emission-free industries,...
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Facebook has attempted to deflect criticism of its data security practices while ducking calls to apologise for a leak of personally identifiable information (PII) on hundreds of millions of its users after malicious actors abused a contact-finding feature.
Facebook believes the data was taken using the...
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Visa customers across Europe have made one billion additional contactless payments since the spending limit was raised early in the Covid-19 pandemic.
About 400 million of these were made in the UK, which has announced it will this year increase the spending limit again to £100...
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A new regulator set up to scrutinise the dominance of technology giants in the UK economy has begun its work on developing legally binding codes of conduct to prevent anti-competitive behaviour in digital markets.
The Digital Markets Unit (DMU), which is based in the Competition and...
