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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

• September 20, 2021 20 Sep'21

  NGO Fair Trials calls on EU to ban predictive policing systems

  The use of artificial intelligence to predict criminal behaviour should be banned because of its discriminatory outcomes and high risk of further entrenching existing inequalities, claims Fair Trials

• 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

• 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

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Renault set to test out Google supply chain digital twin

  Digital twin simulation of supply chain draws in disparate data sources to deliver efficiencies and prevent disruptions

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• September 02, 2021 02 Sep'21

  National Highways sets out data-driven plan for Strategic Road Network

  Digital twins, data sharing, predictive analytics and the use of drones all get a mention in Digital Roads five-year strategic plan

• 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

• August 25, 2021 25 Aug'21

  Algorithmic accountability needs meaningful public participation

  Global analysis by Ada Lovelace Institute and other research groups finds algorithmic accountability mechanisms in the public sector are hindered by a lack of engagement with the public

• 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

• 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

• August 23, 2021 23 Aug'21

  Lacklustre success of analytics in the public cloud

  IT decision-makers see cost savings as the biggest benefit of moving to the cloud for analytics and artificial intelligence

• 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

• 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

• August 18, 2021 18 Aug'21

  UK government criticised for proposed facial-recognition guidance

  Privacy campaigners say the government's updated 'surveillance camera code of practice' does not do enough to mitigate abuses of facial-recognition technology

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  How swarm learning is tearing down data silos

  Swarm learning makes it possible to perform machine learning on distributed data sources while conforming to data confidentiality requirements

• August 13, 2021 13 Aug'21

  UN special rapporteurs call for surveillance tech moratorium

  In the wake of revelations about NSO Groups Pegasus spyware, a number of special rapporteurs from the United Nations are re-igniting calls for a global moratorium on the sale and transfer of surveillance technologies

• 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

• August 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  How Grab is using Kafka in fraud detection

  Grab is using Apache Kafka in its fraud detection and prevention platform to ingest event streams from its mobile software development kits and client backends to pick up fraudulent activities

• August 09, 2021 09 Aug'21

  Anglian Water firms up £24m data and digital framework

  Anglian Water has established a £24m data and digital programme to help meet its asset management plan objectives, as set by Ofwat

• August 06, 2021 06 Aug'21

  Apple unveils plans to scan US iPhones for child sex abuse images

  Apple will introduce child sexual abuse material detection for US users later this year, but some experts are worried that the technology could be repurposed to scan phones for other kinds of content

• August 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  SAP customers more alert to internal than external threats

  SAP customers are more concerned by insider threats than by external attacks, according to a report. And yet the average SAP customer has around 2,500 vulnerabilities within their customised SAP code

• August 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  BCS: more diverse workforce key to UK AI ethics global leadership

  BCS report says the UK can take an international lead in AI ethics if it cultivates a more diverse workforce, including people from non-STEM backgrounds

• August 04, 2021 04 Aug'21

  Civil Service Data Challenge announces longlist of ideas to improve data use

  Dragons’ Den-style Civil Service competition to elicit ideas to improve data use in government has whittled a list of 200 down to eight. Four will be chosen in December for delivery

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Panasas’s 10x saving bumps NetApp from HPC storage deployment

  University of Wollongong got 1.2PB for the cost of 100TB for HPC storage in its cryo-imaging institute. Scale-out NAS maker Panasas also brought life sciences expertise to bear

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Intel hails data analytics-powered GB Olympics swimming success

  Intel has claimed its part in the GB swimming team’s Olympics success, with the analysis of ‘data pools’ and the use of its servers and workstations

• July 29, 2021 29 Jul'21

  Investigatory Powers Tribunal finds UK spy agencies unlawfully collected personal data

  Campaign groups Privacy International and Liberty are gearing up to bring further legal action after a court found that UK spy agencies unlawfully collected phone and internet records

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  Almost half unaware of GP data-sharing plans

  Around half of adults in England – approximately 20 million people – remain unaware of the scope of the NHS GPDPR programme, prompting calls for a public education campaign

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  BEIS replaces Excel-based grant system with data management portal

  The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is replacing an Excel-based system for grant applications with a data management system built by Aiimi

• July 23, 2021 23 Jul'21

  SAS steps up free data skills programme for job seekers

  SAS has expanded its free data skills for jobseekers’ programme, aiming it at people who have been adversely affected by the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic

• July 23, 2021 23 Jul'21

  BCS, Royal Statistical Society, Alan Turing Institute combine to cement data science professionalism

  BCS, the Royal Statistical Society and the Alan Turing Institute are combining to form an alliance to promote professional and ethical standards in data science

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  UK government publishes full Innovation Strategy

  Strategy aims to put the UK at the global forefront of science, research and innovation

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  SAP Q2 2021: revenue down 1%, 600 new S/4 Hana signups

  SAP has reported second-quarter 2021 revenue of €6.669bn, down 1% on the same year-ago quarter. Cloud revenue has increased by 11% to €2.276bn, just over one-third of the total, and 250 customers claimed for new Rise with SAP package in the quarter

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  Interview: Chano Fernandez, co-CEO of Workday – a European co-helming a Californian enterprise

  Chano Fernandez, co-CEO of Workday, explains how the company’s storied and humane employee culture needs constant tending, and looks forward to a post-Covid acceleration

• July 19, 2021 19 Jul'21

  SAP invests €250m in UK economy

  Investment includes a new, UK-based cloud service, two new offices, and a beefing up of SAP’s apprenticeship and internship programmes

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Oracle’s Miranda advances customer wins against SAP for cloud applications suite

  Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of applications development for Oracle globally, is showcasing three US customer wins against SAP at the supplier’s quarterly Oracle Live event

• July 08, 2021 08 Jul'21

  Developers have a moral duty to create ethical AI

  Corsight AI publishes report on how organisations can develop more human-centric AI and biometric technologies

• July 08, 2021 08 Jul'21

  CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CPIO, Acacium Group

  Acacium’s chief product and information officer joined the healthcare specialist in the midst of the pandemic, and is responsible for data, product, business process and automation

• July 07, 2021 07 Jul'21

  Clara Shih, CEO, Salesforce Service Cloud on the shape of post-pandemic service work

  Salesforce Service Cloud CEO Clara Shih has returned to the supplier after a period as a founder CEO and sees the future of contact centre and field service with relatively fresh eyes

• July 07, 2021 07 Jul'21

  Forrester finds companies confounded by data deluge

  A Dell-commissioned study by analyst firm Forrester finds organisations overwhelmed by mounds of data

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Gulf hospitals flock to digital health to manage lifestyle diseases

  The Middle East is accelerating its take-up of digital healthcare technologies following lessons learned in the Covid-19 pandemic

• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  Ordnance Survey Data Hub marks first anniversary with developer highlights

  A year after its launch, the Ordnance Survey Data Hub is claiming a 50% increase in like-for-like downloads. The resource has proved its mettle during the Covid-19 pandemic for the London Ambulance Service and has benefited the National Library of ...

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Online Safety Bill unfit for purpose, says new campaign group

  Campaign group set up to oppose Online Safety Bill says the duty of care is too simplistic, cedes too much power to US corporations and will, in practice, privilege the speech of journalists or politicians

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Salesforce declares AWS partnership to enable intelligent applications

  Salesforce and Amazon Web Services have declared a ‘strategic partnership’ that is claimed to enable the easier creation of artificial intelligence-infused applications

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  IBM serves more AI power at Wimbledon 2021

  The annual Wimbledon tennis championship is an event IBM uses to showcase the insights possible using Watson-based artificial intelligence applications

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  EU regulators call for ban on biometrics in public spaces

  European Union’s data protection regulators say facial recognition and other biometric identification technologies present too great a risk to fundamental human rights to be allowed in public spaces