dinsdag 19 november, 2024
Source is ComputerWeekly.com On Friday 13 March 2020, with hours to go before the first practice session of the 2020 Formula One season at Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia, and with the McLaren team having already withdrawn from the event following a positive Covid-19 test, the race organisers took...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Open banking allows, and in some cases compels, banks to make it easy for financial services IT (fintech) companies to access the accounts of any customer who gives their authorisation for this to happen.   Fintechs can then use that customer’s transaction data for the purposes of budgeting...
Source is New York Times The lake is as much as a mile deep, with some of the clearest fresh water in the world, and a czarist-era railroad conveniently skirts the southern shore. Most important, it is covered by a three-foot-thick sheet of ice in the winter: nature’s ideal...
Source is New York Times This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Uber and some transportation experts once predicted that getting a ride with the tap of an app would help reduce traffic and increase riders’ use of public...
Source is New York Times When the Swedish fast-fashion giant H&M said in September that it was ending its relationship with a Chinese supplier accused of using forced labor, a few Chinese social media accounts dedicated to the textile industry took note. But by and large, the moment passed...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Facebook and Amazon are now the two largest individual corporate lobbyists in Washington, with their political spend eclipsing that of telecommunications and arms companies in 2020. Analysis by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has found that during the 2020 US presidential election cycle, Big Tech –...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com It’s one year on since the pandemic, and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners in the Gulf region face a transformed economic landscape.  In these uncertain times, company owners are turning to technology to keep their firms afloat and resilient.  SMEs make up more than 98% of...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Computer forensic and legal experts have questioned the “black hole” of evidence that surrounds intercepted communications from the encrypted phone network EncroChat used in evidence against organised crime groups across the UK. They claim that law enforcement and prosecutors have not followed long-established forensic principles –...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com TSB has completed the integration of a smart digital agent into its mobile banking platform following its success in relieving pressure on call centres during the Covid-19 pandemic. In May last year, as the early effects of the Covid-19 pandemic were being felt, TSB introduced the...
Source is New York Times “The infrastructure has gone to a whole other level,” said CJ MacDonald, founder of Step, a debit card provider aimed at teenagers. Introduced in September, Step quickly reached one million customers, partly from endorsements from social media influencers like Charli D’Amelio.In December, Step raised...