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• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Google creates datacentre task scheduler to limit non-urgent work to peak renewable energy periods

  Google lifts lid on how it is using forecast data to ensure non-urgent compute workloads within its datacentres are carried out at peak supply times for renewable energy

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Swedish college implements digital plans early

  Work done by a Swedish medical school over the past few years to prepare digital education options is paying off as lockdown forces it to close physical classrooms

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  More than 80% of UK startups ineligible for public-private coronavirus loans

  With the majority of startups left out in the cold, the UK government must now focus on the delivery speed of what is available, according to ecosystem leaders

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  IR35 private sector reforms: Treasury ignores sub-committee’s plea to delay April 2021 start date

  Despite the Finance Bill Sub-Committee claiming it would argue for the IR35 reforms to be delayed even if there were no pandemic, HM Treasury remains committed to revised April 2021 roll-out date

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Traditional banks need to do more than gloss over back-end systems with fintech paint

  Banks need to work with fintechs if they are to prosper in the new world, but first they must update their back-end systems

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Cyber criminals may be changing tactics

  Cyber criminals “may soon shift to heavier exploitation of footholds established through phishing and other scams”, warns Cyber Threat Coalition

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Amazon’s Whole Foods uses heat mapping to track unionisation efforts

  Whole Foods is using mapping technology to predict where strikes or union activity will happen, but organisers can use similar tools for the inverse of bolstering their actions too

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: German networks take the extra strain from social distancing

  Network performance and customer experience monitoring firm finds German networks coping with masses of online home users despite some degradations since the start of social distancing and stay-at-home policies

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  How DBS is reaping the dividends of digital transformation

  At DBS Bank, the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has demonstrated the value of technology and the investments it made over the past decade to modernise its technology stack

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• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  IBM results reveal hybrid emphasis and virtual garages

  The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is leading to businesses rethinking their strategy, with IBM leaning on virtual teams to support hybrid computing projects

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  UK challenger stockbroker Freetrade backs Google Cloud to make investing more inclusive

  The CTO and co-founders of UK challenger stockbroking app provider, Freetrade, discuss how Google Cloud has helped them diversify their service offering as user numbers have increased

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  Border Force awards £3.1m contract to Capita

  The contract with the Home Office's law enforcement agency will see the implementation of 4G and satellite infrastructure

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  Covid-19 outbreak sees first-quarter revenues flatten for Huawei

  Chinese networking mega-firm endures tough first quarter, but pledges that it will ride out the coronavirus storm

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  Data excess linked to climate change

  IT departments are unwittingly contributing to climate change by storing too much data, much of which will never be used

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  Revealed: The man behind the first major computer virus pandemic

  After 20 years of silence, Onel de Guzman has admitted unleashing the “Love Bug”, the computer virus that caused havoc by infecting 45 million machines around the world