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Big data analytics

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Facebook: US government does not engage in mass and indiscriminate surveillance

  Social media giant challenges a ruling by Dublin’s High Court over a judgment that it says made ‘extraordinary and incorrect’ findings about the US legal system

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Singapore to revise copyright law in data analytics boost

  Proposed exception in Copyright Act will allow copying of copyrighted materials for the purpose of data analysis

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Home Office vetoes privacy campaigner from senior post in surveillance watchdog

  The Home Office refuses academic and privacy campaigner, Eric King, security clearance for a senior role at the intelligence services watchdog, despite high-level backing from officials

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Thailand pushes for Industry 4.0 in ASEAN

  Nearly half of the kingdom’s deliverables as chair of ASEAN will be focused on spurring Industry 4.0 developments across the region

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Alibaba Cloud opens second datacentre in Indonesia

  The new and existing datacentres will let Indonesian enterprises deploy mission-critical workloads in multiple availability zones and switch over within seconds

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  Huawei debuts Arm-based chip, eyes broader server market

  Huawei’s Kunpeng 920 processor is geared towards big data and infrastructure applications, marking its foray into Arm-based servers that are set to change the dynamics of the datacentre market

• January 01, 2019 01 Jan'19

  SAP user group’s Cooper: Indirect licensing progress welcome but slow

  SAP UK&I User Group chair Paul Cooper on the state of play between SAP and users: sanguine about end of ECC6; S/4 adoption growth steady, indirect licensing still an issue; and C/4 remains unknown

• December 27, 2018 27 Dec'18

  Top 10 information management stories of 2018

  Ethics was the leading theme of data analytics in 2018, especially allied with AI. The Cambridge Analytica controversy represented that, and the idea that the UK could specialise in AI ethics emerged

• December 21, 2018 21 Dec'18

  Chief medical officer calls for data-driven health strategy

  Health chief says data must be used to radically improve the nation’s health by 2040, using equipment such as wearable technologies

• December 03, 2018 03 Dec'18

  Ada Lovelace Institute gets board to drive AI research for social good

  The Nuffield Foundation has appointed a board to lead the development of the Ada Lovelace Institute as an artificial intelligence and data research body trained on social good

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  APAC healthcare providers reaping digital transformation returns

  Digital transformation could potentially double the improvements in integrated care by 2020, study finds

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Interview: Sam Lowe, chief technology officer, Streetbees

  Streetbees’ first IT chief brings artificial intelligence expertise to help the tech startup deliver a hive of data for its customers

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Scottish Government and Nesta launch health data challenge

  Partnership between the Scottish Government and Nesta will see funding available for innovative projects driving the use of technology to give citizens access to data and help them live healthier lives

• November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

  HPE shows off first fruits of $4bn edge computing investment

  Tech supplier has beefed up its Edgeline portfolio with new hardware and software offerings to make it easier to manage edge devices, applications and data

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  Government yet to recruit chief data officer

  Two years after the government began the process to hire a chief data officer, the post continues to sit empty