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October 25, 2021
25
Oct'21
Singapore-developed chatbot to provide genetic counselling
National University Cancer Institute, Singapore’s chatbot will kickstart the counselling process for patients who have a higher risk of contracting hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
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October 22, 2021
22
Oct'21
Post Office board ‘appalling’ and ‘short-sighted’, said minister researching Horizon project in 2000
A government minister investigating the controversial Horizon IT project in 2000 described the Post Office board of directors as ‘appalling, short-sighted and partisan’
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October 21, 2021
21
Oct'21
SAP Q3 2021: Cloud year-on-year revenue up one-fifth, S/4 Hana adoption steady
SAP’s third quarter 2021 showed 20% year-on-year growth in cloud revenue and steady, incremental growth in S/4 Hana adoption
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October 20, 2021
20
Oct'21
Oracle NetSuite embeds HSBC corporate banking services into ERP
Oracle Netsuite integrates HSBC corporate banking services into its latest software
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October 20, 2021
20
Oct'21
Barbershop is part of digital revolution in small business sector
Barbershop continues to add digital functionality to its business after the pandemic proved its value
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October 18, 2021
18
Oct'21
Singapore pulls ahead with public sector 5G trials
Singapore’s public sector organisations are testing the use of 5G connectivity to remotely operate an autonomous vehicle for road-sweeping, among other use cases
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October 15, 2021
15
Oct'21
Manchester City teams up with Qualtrics for fan experience management
Manchester City is teaming up with online survey software firm Qualtrics, part-owned by long-term City Football Group supplier SAP, to engage more intelligently with the football club’s fanbase
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October 13, 2021
13
Oct'21
Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry announces first public hearing
Public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal will hold its first public hearing next month
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October 08, 2021
08
Oct'21
How Zoom is growing its APAC business
Zoom is driving its growth in Asia-Pacific by embedding business processes into video communications, supporting the hybrid workplace and expanding its headcount in the region
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October 07, 2021
07
Oct'21
How VMware is tackling the Indian market
VMware is eyeing growing opportunities in India around cloud-native application development, remote work as well as 5G and edge computing, says VMware president Sumit Dhawan
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October 06, 2021
06
Oct'21
Aetos to deploy Singtel MEC for security operations
Security firm Aetos will use Singtel’s multi-access edge computing platform to run applications such as surveillance robots, drones and video analytics at its security command centre
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October 04, 2021
04
Oct'21
How GYG Singapore moved to paperless contracts
The Singapore franchisee of Mexican cuisine specialist Guzman y Gomez has turned to electronic agreements and digital signatures to ease the administrative burden on its HR team
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September 24, 2021
24
Sep'21
Big Data London: Mitigate AI bias rather than try to remove it, say experts
Bias cannot be stripped from artificial intelligence systems, but organisations can work to mitigate it, Big Data London 2021 attendees heard this week
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September 24, 2021
24
Sep'21
Big Data London: NHS Digital data service struggled with Covid testing demands
A critical component of NHS Digital’s data processing struggled to cope with demand caused by Covid-19 testing, Big Data London 2021 attendees heard this week
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September 24, 2021
24
Sep'21
IBM ramps up quantum education initiative
IBM is trying hard to break quantum computing away from the boffins to find real-world application areas
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September 24, 2021
24
Sep'21
London publishes guidelines for ethical use of smart city tech
Latest draft of the ‘Emerging Technology Charter for London’ encourages local authorities, public services and technology companies to improve how they implement technology in the capital
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September 22, 2021
22
Sep'21
Salesforce to debut Hyperforce architecture in Singapore
Salesforce is rolling out its Hyperforce infrastructure architecture in Singapore by the year-end, enabling enterprises to run Salesforce applications on Amazon Web Services
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September 22, 2021
22
Sep'21
Dreamforce 2021: Benioff declares Salesforce as net zero and Slack ubiquitous across stack
Marc Benioff, CEO and chair of Salesforce, declares his company net zero in a keynote at Dreamforce 2021 in San Francisco, alongside update on Slack integrations
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September 22, 2021
22
Sep'21
Newham aims to harness local talent to build data economy in London
The London Borough of Newham sets out to enable its young, digitally savvy population to build a data economy for sustainable growth through the launch of Newham Sparks at London Tech Week 2021
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September 22, 2021
22
Sep'21
AI cannot be regulated by technical measures alone
The regulation of artificial intelligence must address the power of tech companies, as technical measures alone will not be enough to prevent the harms caused by AI-driven technologies, says report
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September 21, 2021
21
Sep'21
IDC: Salesforce-related economic activity will create 271,000 UK jobs and £52bn in sales by 2026
IDC research published on the eve of Dreamforce 2021 claims Salesforce-related economic activity will create 271,000 British jobs by 2026 and stoke £52bn in revenue
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September 21, 2021
21
Sep'21
DBS eyes AI and blockchain talent
Singapore-based bank DBS is looking to hire 150 developers and engineers skilled in artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain through its hackathon programme
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September 20, 2021
20
Sep'21
Trust deficit retards predictive analytics adoption in banking, says Qlik
Concerns about trust and regulatory compliance are impeding the adoption of predictive analytics in financial services, according to data analytics firm Qlik
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September 17, 2021
17
Sep'21
Whittingdale and Warman ousting completes reshuffle of every digital, data and tech minister
All of the UK ministers responsible for technology, digital and data are moving on as a result of Boris Johnson's latest reshuffle
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September 15, 2021
15
Sep'21
UN human rights chief calls for moratorium on AI technologies
High commissioner’s call for a moratorium on the use of AI systems that pose a serious risk to human rights is accompanied by a UN report on the negative human rights impacts associated with the technology
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September 14, 2021
14
Sep'21
Oracle Q1 2021-2 results: Cloud revenue reaches a quarter
In its first-quarter results for fiscal 2021-22, Oracle claims that its IaaS plus SaaS revenue represents 25% of its total
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September 14, 2021
14
Sep'21
Government minister holds secret meeting with Post Office Horizon scandal victims
BEIS minister Paul Scully has Zoom call with three subpostmasters who were victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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September 14, 2021
14
Sep'21
CCRC refers six more subpostmaster convictions for appeal
An additional six subpostmasters’ convictions have been referred for appeal in Post Office IT scandal
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September 13, 2021
13
Sep'21
RPA adoption still in its infancy in Asia-Pacific
While there have been successful deployments of robotic process automation in mature markets, adoption of the technology is largely in its infancy across Asia-Pacific, says a regional Blue Prism executive
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September 13, 2021
13
Sep'21
Portcast secures $3.2m, eyes global expansion
Logistics startup Portcast will use its pre-Series A funding to expand globally and bolster its cloud-based service with prescriptive AI capabilities
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September 09, 2021
09
Sep'21
Ali Ghodsi, Databricks CEO: Scandi-Californian hybrid is an ideal
Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, reflects on the business culture of Silicon Valley, his Iranian-Swedish background, and where big data analytics is going during these early days of machine learning
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September 09, 2021
09
Sep'21
APAC organisations must do more to harness analytics potential
Organisations in the Asia-Pacific region still lack the necessary workforce and process capabilities that are required to realise the full benefits of data analytics initiatives, a study finds
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September 07, 2021
07
Sep'21
Government opens £2bn chest for big data analytics
The Crown Commercial Service has published an early notification notice for a £500m per annum big data analytics procurement framework, which will run from 2022 to 2026
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August 31, 2021
31
Aug'21
Subpostmasters demand more clarity on Horizon public inquiry before committing their support
Subpostmaster campaign group founder demands that financial redress for members be included in public inquiry before it ‘willingly’ participates
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August 27, 2021
27
Aug'21
McLaren Racing pursues car build efficiency with Alteryx
McLaren Racing selects Alteryx analytics software in pursuit of greater car build efficiency in face of Formula 1 cost cap, and to improve fan engagement
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August 24, 2021
24
Aug'21
HMCTS discloses £12.5m HMRC tax bill over IR35 status contractor assessment errors
HM Courts and Tribunals Service has acknowledged IR35 status contractor assessment errors and paid HMRC £12.5m
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August 24, 2021
24
Aug'21
Inchcape picks Rise with SAP on Google Cloud to motor on digital
Auto sector company Inchcape has chosen SAP’s Rise service on Google Cloud to drive forward its digital transformation programme
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August 23, 2021
23
Aug'21
Cities worldwide band together to push for ethical AI
The chief digital and technology officers of London and Barcelona speak to Computer Weekly about their joint initiative launched with other cities to promote the ethical deployment of artificial intelligence in urban spaces
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August 20, 2021
20
Aug'21
CMA urges further scrutiny of Nvidia purchase of Arm
Competition and Markets Authority has decided an in-depth investigation should be mounted into the proposed acquisition of Arm by US chipmaker Nvidia
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August 20, 2021
20
Aug'21
Whole-system view of railways from Resonate on Redis offers progress
Resonate, a traffic management software provider to UK railways, has built a system using Redis Streams to provide real-time processing of train movements, enabling a whole-system view
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August 20, 2021
20
Aug'21
How the pandemic transformed IAG’s Hangar 51 accelerator
Businesses of all shapes and sizes have had to take a different approach during the pandemic – Dupsy Abiola, head of global innovation at IAG, explains how IAG transformed its Hangar 51 accelerator during the coronavirus outbreak
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August 20, 2021
20
Aug'21
Alibaba tops global AI challenge
Alibaba’s AliceMind algorithm recorded a higher accuracy rate than humans in answering questions related to images in the global VQA challenge
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August 18, 2021
18
Aug'21
How Australia’s Octopus Deploy is simplifying DevOps
Brisbane-based startup Octopus Deploy recently secured $172.5m in venture funding to advance its goal of simplifying software deployments for DevOps teams
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August 18, 2021
18
Aug'21
Thames Valley Police drops ERP system after spending £14m
Thames Valley Police exits tri-force programme to develop new enterprise resource planning software for the police
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August 17, 2021
17
Aug'21
Overturned convictions of subpostmasters mount up, but 555 victims no closer to justice
The government has failed to provide fair compensation to the subpostmasters who exposed the full extent of the Horizon scandal to the world
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August 16, 2021
16
Aug'21
ICO consults public on personal data in employment practices
The ICO has launched a public consultation on employers’ use of personal data to help it provide practical guidance for both businesses and workers
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August 12, 2021
12
Aug'21
NCSC for Startups initiative launched with Plexal
National Cyber Security Centre and Plexal will support startups to develop products to address the government’s cyber security priorities
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August 12, 2021
12
Aug'21
Same-day delivery firm CitySprint fields Salesforce for customers
Same-day delivery specialist CitySprint uses Salesforce across its contact management, sales and marketing teams
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August 12, 2021
12
Aug'21
Singapore’s NUHS kicks off holomedicine research
Singapore neurosurgeons are testing the use of Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset to locate brain tumours with higher precision and improve patient safety
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August 11, 2021
11
Aug'21
Four more subpostmasters set to have convictions overturned
A further four subpostmasters are set to have their wrongful convictions overturned in the latest development in the Post Office Horizon scandal