Interview: The importance of building a data foundation
Everything in IT gets commoditised eventually, according to Terren Peterson, vice-president of engineering at Capital One. Having worked at the bank for over 24 years,…
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AWS signs multi-year deal with GenAI platform provider to decarbonise its datacentres
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a multi-year partnership to draw on the artificial intelligence (AI) expertise of US-based Orbital Materials to create technologies that…
Swedish authorities urged to discontinue AI welfare system
Sweden’s algorithmically powered welfare system is disproportionately targeting marginalised groups in Swedish society for benefit fraud investigations, and must be immediately discontinued, Amnesty International has…
Podcast: Areal density, AI design and the 50TB hard drive
In this podcast, Antony Adshead is joined by Jason Feist, senior vice-president for marketing in products and markets at Seagate, to look at how spinning…
Atos readies ‘adaptive and intimate’ Invictus Games IT service
The Invictus Games has chosen Atos to provide IT services that will underpin the tournament in Canada next February. Organisers of the tournament will harness…
Could generative AI help to fill the skills gap in engineering?
It has been two years since OpenAI’s generative AI (GenAI) tool ChatGPT was launched, and with many rivals emerging on the market since, GenAI technology…
Cloud data lakes: Where do they fit and what are their benefits?
Many enterprises are moving towards use of data lakes to help in managing increasing amounts of information. Such large repositories allow organisations to gather and…
Case study: Manchester Airports Group using AWS to revamp its data strategy
More than 50 million people passed through one of Manchester Airports Group’s (MAG) three sites in 2023, travelling to one of 250-plus destinations around the…
Artificial Intelligence can save UK public services – fact or fiction?
In October 2023 I wrote an opinion article extolling the virtues of Gen AI for the Higher Education sector: Generative AI is a game changer…
Fujitsu’s charity boss made redundant while Post Office scandal victims await support
Fujitsu has parted company with its UK head of charitable partnerships and restructured how it engages with charities, at a time when victims of the…
Scientists demonstrate Pixelator deepfake image verification tool
A team of data scientists at York St John University have unveiled a cutting-edge tool designed to spot and alert people to deepfake images being…
Stage is set for legal battles over Big Tech dominance
Following on from the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust win against Google in August, legal battles facing the tech giant have turned to the…