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• October 09, 2022 09 Oct'22

  ODI food poverty study shows black families and North East suffering most

  A food poverty data report from the Open Data Institute shows black families and the North East of England are suffering the most

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  EU rolling out measures for online safety and AI liability

  The European Council has approved the passage of the Digital Services Act to protect people’s rights online, while the European Commission has announced proposals to help those negatively affected by artificial intelligence to claim compensation

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Proposals for scanning encrypted messages should be cut from Online Safety Bill, say researchers

  Automatic scanning of messaging services for illegal content could lead to one billion false alarms each day in Europe

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Tories to replace GDPR

  IT industry reacts to the government’s plan to replace the pan-European data protection regulation

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Digital transformation is brewing at Heineken

  In a presentation at the Digital Transformation Week conference in Amsterdam, Heineken’s data management director revealed some of the ways the company is using information technology to transform

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  CIO interview: James Fleming, Francis Crick Institute

  Francis Crick Institute CIO discusses how Europe’s largest biomedical research institute has co-developed a framework for data sharing

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Surveillance tech firms complicit in MENA human rights abuses

  Research finds companies are profiting from surveillance technologies that facilitate human rights abuses against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the Middle East and North Africa, with little to no oversight

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Interview: Rachel Hilliam, chair, Alliance for Data Science Professionals

  Rachel Hilliam talks about the origins, mission and future plans for the Alliance for Data Science Professionals

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  How Endowus is leveraging Kafka and microservices

  The Singapore-based financial technology company built a distributed microservices architecture to ensure its investment platform remains resilient at all times

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  EnterpriseDB rides on PostgreSQL momentum in APAC

  The open-source database supplier has seen more enterprises in the region replacing their Oracle databases with Postgres to support their digital transformation initiatives

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  American football giants jet into digital age with HCLTech

  US football clubs the New York Jets and New York Giants outsource their digital transformations to Indian service provider as they target improved fan engagement

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Specsavers clinicians used company data to spot Covid referral collapse

  At Big Data London, Specsavers’ global data officer related how clinicians used company data to spot Covid referral collapse

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Broadcasters treat data science as niche and sporadic in use

  Data science specialists at UK broadcasters conveyed a similar picture of niche use cases at Big Data London 2022

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  CCS £2bn big data and analytics framework goes live

  The Crown Commercial Service has launched a big data and analytics framework worth up to £2bn over the course of the agreement

• September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

  Dreamforce 2022: Benioff and Taylor uncork real-time Genie to toast ‘new day’

  Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor vaunt their Genie customer data platform as real-time harbinger of eventual post-pandemic new normal at Dreamforce 2022

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  India ramps up on AI amid talent and scalability challenges

  Indian organisations are speeding up deployments of AI across multiple sectors, but legacy systems, siloed data and a shortage of AI-specific talent will stand in the way of greater adoption

• September 19, 2022 19 Sep'22

  How Mondelez is driving change with tech

  From empowering citizen developers to deploying drones to monitor the health of cocoa trees, Mondelez has been firing on all cylinders to disrupt the old ways of doing things

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Airtel to deploy edge computing platform

  Bharti Airtel will deploy its multi-access edge compute platform across India to support edge computing applications in manufacturing and other industries, as India gears up for 5G

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  How graph technology is making a dent in the database market

  Graph databases are making a splash in the database market, with specialist, multimodal and cloud database suppliers jostling for a slice of the pie

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  SAP users ramp up ESG efforts

  The UK & Ireland SAP User Group is developing a special interest group to help their members hit their ESG goals more effectively

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Lloyd’s of London is digitally transforming through the front door

  Centuries-old financial services organisation is transforming its complex IT infrastructure through digital data

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Panasas’s double NAS offer aims at multiple analytics workloads

  ActiveStor Flash and ActiveStor Ultra XL target I/O profiles from rapid AI/ML to processing-heavy modelling but remain firmly on-prem, with object and cloud declared ‘interesting’

• September 02, 2022 02 Sep'22

  BBVA to add 2,000 software engineers to workforce this year

  Spanish bank BBVA is boosting its IT department while its traditional workforce reduces amid digital transformation

• September 01, 2022 01 Sep'22

  Google workers oppose cloud contract with Israeli government

  Google workers and Palestinian rights activists call on company to divest from involvement in cloud and artificial intelligence contract with Israeli government and military, following allegations the tech giant has retaliated against an employee ...

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  Singapore to expand 5G coverage to seaport

  The maritime hub will be testing the use of 5G in a range of maritime operations, including remote pilotage of vessels and drone delivery of components to ships

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  Growing importance of the data strategist in South Holland

  Much has been written about the work of data scientists, but the lesser-known role of data strategist is just as essential – as is being demonstrated in the Netherlands

• August 29, 2022 29 Aug'22

  Thinxtra teams up with Hong Kong’s LBS on smart hygiene

  Australia’s Thinxtra will supply its battery-powered IoT devices to monitor hygiene and environmental conditions in residential and commercial venues in Hong Kong

• August 26, 2022 26 Aug'22

  Making her mark in financial technology

  Archana Manjunatha’s career in financial technology took her to the trading floors in India, where she learned the ropes of futures and options trading and the back offices of some of the world’s largest banks

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  HelloFresh serves up data insights to in-house tech team with Informatica’s help

  Meal kit company is working with cloud-based data management firm to make sense of its data after a business growth spurt

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Dell’s deep learning model to support coral reef conservation

  Dell Technologies has developed a deep learning model to speed up labelling and analysis of images of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in move to support coral reef conservation

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Google employees demand end to collection of abortion data

  In the wake of the US Supreme Court rolling back abortion rights, Google employees are calling on the company to stop collecting abortion-related data, so that it can never be shared with police

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Inside Singapore’s national digital identity journey

  Singapore’s national digital identity system has evolved from providing single sign-on to e-government services to pandemic-related and digital document capabilities in recent years

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  LexisNexis sued by immigration advocates over data practices

  Four immigration advocacy groups launch lawsuit in Illinois alleging data broker’s collection, aggregation and sale of people’s personal data, including non-public information, to corporations and government bodies

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  CTO interview: Steve Otto, CTO, The R&A

  The Open Championship was fully back in 2022 after Covid, and back at golf’s spiritual home of St Andrews – and it was an opportunity for the club’s CTO to reflect on where technology will take the sport next

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  How BE Switchcraft is using RFID to streamline manufacturing

  The Australian switchboard manufacturer has rolled out a radio frequency identification system to track production jobs and streamline manufacturing processes

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  How clean data helps Southern Water identify vulnerable customers

  Escalating prices means households around the country are having to tighten spending, with many struggling to pay their bills. Water4All, a consortium led by Southern Water, is using data to identify low-income and vulnerable households so they can ...

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Department of Health investigates bias in medical devices and algorithms

  The government has launched a review to look at the problem of discrimination in medical devices and decision-making software

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Crown Commercial Service opens door to Salesforce

  The Crown Commercial Service has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with Salesforce to facilitate public sector access to the supplier’s products and services, including Tableau, Slack and Mulesoft

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Waterstones’ supply chain disrupted in Blue Yonder implementation

  Bookseller Waterstones is recovering from the effects of a Blue Yonder implementation that has seen authors and readers up in arms

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  NAO guide for senior government leaders flags barriers to better data use

  A National Audit Office guide for government chiefs on improving data use points to difficulties in achieving data sharing benefits and laments variability in cross-government data quality

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Bayern Munich sides with Adobe to enhance global fan experience

  Bayern Munich is using Adobe’s Experience Cloud and allied software to better connect with its fans in Germany and worldwide

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Shipyard workers don smart glasses in 5G testbed

  Shipyard workers at Singapore’s Keppel Offshore and Marine can view work instructions on their smart glasses, pull out real-time data about their equipment and receive remote guidance in a range of operational tasks

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  Twilio eyes CDP opportunity in APAC

  Twilio is tapping opportunities in customer data platforms and will deploy APAC instances of its Segment platform next year

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  UK safety tech sector sees strong revenue and employment growth

  Safety tech is now one of the fastest-growing sectors in the UK tech industry, with jumps in revenue, investment and employment

• August 01, 2022 01 Aug'22

  CloudMile banks on trust in regional expansion

  Taiwanese cloud and AI startup CloudMile keeps its billing transparent and provides round-the-clock support to build trust with customers as it grows its business in Southeast Asia

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  How TCS is supporting Australia’s electricity market settlement

  Tata Consultancy Services worked with the Australian Energy Market Operator to build a new system that speeds up electricity market settlement

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Secret court asked to quash a decade of MI5 surveillance warrants following ‘systemic breaches’

  The culture at MI5 was to ‘prioritise’ missions ‘over everything else’, including compliance with safeguards designed to protect the public, the UK’s most secret court heard yesterday

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Meta publishes first-ever human rights report

  Meta details its approach to protecting and promoting human rights, but civil society groups say the company has failed to grapple with the human rights risks associated with its own business model

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Lambeth maps future with cloud applications

  With its funding dramatically cut, Lambeth Council has turned to cloud delivery of its business applications to have a simpler technology stack and be nimbler in delivering services to its 330,000 population

• July 25, 2022 25 Jul'22

  CDO interview: Brandon Hootman, director of digital data, Caterpillar

  Manufacturing giant is modernising its data management and turning to digital to steal a march on its competitors