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15 Nov 2024
MinIO ups object storage ante for AI
MinIO is making a case for object to be the storage protocol for AI. But one analyst said the market has yet to decide.
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15 Nov 2024
AI gateways, Kubernetes multi-tenancy loop in LLMOps
There are many areas of IT infrastructure affected by the emergence of LLMOps; for each, there were products and projects rolled out this week at KubeCon.
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15 Nov 2024
Intel, Nvidia vie for dominance with agentic AI blueprints
Rival sets of tools meant to better support AI apps on developer platforms have hit the market as an even bigger wave of change looms in agentic AI.
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05 Aug 2024
Cellular IoT connectivity revenues hit €12.4bn in 2023
Research finds advancement of comms-based internet of things industry drives shift towards greater focus on reliability, security and support for international deployments, contributing to new types of market dynamics
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05 Aug 2024
Members rarely challenge coverage denials, surprise billing
Only 45% of individuals who received a surprise bill challenged it and only 43% of those who were denied coverage appealed the decision.
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02 Aug 2024
AWS CodeCommit, Cloud9 closure communication critiqued
AWS CodeCommit gives up the Git ghost to competitors, while a lack of advance notice to users has some IT pros questioning the future of other services.
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02 Aug 2024
Major changes could reshape the NAND flash market
The last few years have seen NAND prices crater before rebounding. The next few years may see the major players in the market go public, split or merge.
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02 Aug 2024
Bounteous x Accolite, Nokia boost 5G API use-case development
Global comms tech provider enters into collaboration with digital transformation services consultancy to deploy Network as Code platform with API developer portal, with initial focus on use cases in areas of healthcare, gaming and utilities
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02 Aug 2024
Patient trust in healthcare tanked during COVID-19 pandemic
Patient trust in healthcare providers declined during the pandemic, a trend some experts posit could threaten public health.
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02 Aug 2024
Intel's weak position in AI chip market leads to mass layoff
Intel's failure to profit from the red-hot AI market is behind plans to cut 15,000 jobs. The workforce reduction is part of a $10 billion cut in capital expenses in 2025.
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02 Aug 2024
Labour axes £1.3bn AI funding promised by the Conservatives
Government scraps £1.3bn worth of AI and tech programmes launched by the Conservatives, but says it is committed to building technology infrastructure in the UK through its AI Opportunities Action Plan
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02 Aug 2024
UK broadband altnets unite to push for fairer access regulation, pricing
Five of the UK’s largest alternative fibre network operators have come together to create an alliance and call on UK comms regulator to ensure fair and equal access for all users of nation’s physical infrastructure
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02 Aug 2024
Second round of ChipStart sees 11 more companies receive support
Government-backed ChipStart initiative aims to support UK startups developing semiconductor technology
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02 Aug 2024
FDA approves gene therapy for synovial sarcoma
Tecelra gained FDA approval for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic synovial sarcoma.
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02 Aug 2024
AWS profits and revenue rise as public cloud giant plots AI infrastructure investments
Amazon’s public cloud arm reports its second-quarter results, and states that the second half of this year will see an uptick in infrastructure investments to support the growing demand for AI
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02 Aug 2024
AbbVie acquires Cerevel Therapeutics for $45 per share
AbbVie is expanding its neuroscience portfolio through its acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics.
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02 Aug 2024
How CrowdStrike is leveraging AI to empower security teams
CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev explains how the company’s multi-agent AI architecture can help to enhance analyst efficiency and tackle cyber security challenges
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01 Aug 2024
Police hunt scammers after takedown of Russian Coms fraud platform
The National Crime Agency has arrested four people after taking down a phone number spoofing platform used by criminals to defraud hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with more arrests to follow
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01 Aug 2024
Warren slams legal challenges to FTC noncompete ban
As the FTC noncompete ban faces legal challenges, some in Congress including Sen. Elizabeth Warren are supporting the FTC's authority to create such a rule.
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01 Aug 2024
InfoSec community sounds off on CrowdStrike outage, next steps
Security experts offered their thoughts on the recent IT outage, praising CrowdStrike's response time but saying the outage highlights issues in the software updating process.
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01 Aug 2024
Clumio CEO Rick Underwood: Backup remains company focus
Rick Underwood, appointed CEO at Clumio in June, sees data management and machine learning technologies as key for the company's backup software outside GenAI hype in this Q&A.
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01 Aug 2024
New Snowflake service enables secure AI, ML deployment
Snowpark Container Services aims to provide the vendor's users with a secure environment for deploying and managing models and applications without having to move their data.
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01 Aug 2024
Enterprises struggle to find business value with GenAI
Enterprises chase an impractical immediate payback from GenAI and miss opportunities to use less expensive machine learning to solve problems, experts say.
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01 Aug 2024
Ubotica claims further breakthroughs in live Earth satellite intelligence
Space-based artificial intelligence company claims paradigm shift for Earth observation with Live Earth Intelligence, said to revolutionise capabilities and cost efficiency in space sector
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01 Aug 2024
CrowdStrike shareholders sue, alleging false security claims
A US pension fund is lining up a lawsuit against CrowdStrike, claiming the cyber company lied about the integrity of its systems, leading to failings that caused a worldwide IT outage
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01 Aug 2024
Businesses fail to deliver consistently positive customer experience
Research from a leading global business school’s publishing arm finds that even though 94% of business leaders think good customer experience is important for business success, just 38% believe they can deliver it
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01 Aug 2024
Google Cloud's BigQuery gets AI injection, Looker to follow
The tech giant's latest analytics and data management moves include the general availability of Gemini in BigQuery and the imminent availability of Gemini in Looker.
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01 Aug 2024
New features make Google's Spanner a database for AI
The introduction of graph processing, vector search and full-text search optimize Spanner for developing and managing modern applications and models, including GenAI.
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01 Aug 2024
ChatGPT shows potential for clinical knowledge review
ChatGPT could help clinicians more effectively review medical literature by prioritizing and summarizing research abstracts from journals related to their specialties.
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01 Aug 2024
Slow weeks of summer an ideal time for training
The next few weeks could present opportunities for the development of personal skills across the channel
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01 Aug 2024
SupportLogic acquires xFind for customer service experience AI
Startup SupportLogic buys xFind to add generative AI to its service analytics platform, and in the process takes on much larger competition such as Qualtrics, Medallia and Verint.
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01 Aug 2024
Altair, LG extend connected vehicle infotainment tech lifespans
Collaboration between computational intelligence company and CE giant said to have seen complex fatigue analysis reduce development time for vehicle infotainment components by more than 20%
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01 Aug 2024
Sequoia Project launches pharmacy interoperability workgroup
The Sequoia Project has launched a workgroup in collaboration with Surescripts that aims to close pharmacy interoperability gaps and drive patient-centered care.
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01 Aug 2024
Scottish government to roll out digital evidence sharing
Following a controversial pilot scheme, Scotland is investing £33m in deploying digital evidence sharing technology nationally
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01 Aug 2024
Community care neglected in national digital transformation efforts
Digital technologies could help the government’s ambition of delivering care at home for longer, but community services suffer from a lack of basic technologies and access to funding, according to the King’s Fund
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01 Aug 2024
Rising IoT market spurs cellular antenna shipments
Berg Insight’s research into the cellular internet of things antenna market suggests there will be a rise in the market over next four years, and notes the challenge of deploying complex technology
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01 Aug 2024
Meta’s Zuckerberg looks ahead to AI-generated adverts
Facebook’s parent company is driving artificial intelligence across its advertising platform, supported by open source development
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01 Aug 2024
Telehealth offsets primary care visit declines but not equally
Telehealth's ability to offset primary care visit declines varied across patient characteristics, with some groups still experiencing large drops in visit volumes.
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01 Aug 2024
Natural History Museum partners with AWS to restore and protect urban nature
The Natural History Museum said it expects to collect and analyse 20 terabytes of species data in year one with help from AWS
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01 Aug 2024
FDA issues public warning on lead levels in cinnamon
The FDA has issued a warning to retailers and consumers regarding elevated lead levels in ground cinnamon.
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01 Aug 2024
Vizient estimates a 3.81% inflation in drug prices in 2025
Vizient's summer 2024 Pharmacy Market Outlook predicts a drug inflation rate of 3.81% in 2025.
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01 Aug 2024
Banks, telcos call for more data sharing to fight fraud
A Which?-led coalition of banks and telecoms operators is calling on the UK's new government to take the lead on enabling data sharing to help fight digital fraud
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01 Aug 2024
BroadbandOne boosts IoT with expanded of next-gen TaaS
Telco as a service claims to offer revolution deploying 5G 28GHz and LMDS 29-31GHz spectrum infrastructure with 357 FCC-approved mmWave licences
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31 Jul 2024
API attacks surge by 65% in APAC, fuelled by rapid digitisation
Akamai's report reveals a significant rise in cyber attacks on web applications and APIs in the region over the past year, with financial and commerce sectors hardest hit
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31 Jul 2024
Perplexity AI revenue share model appeases publishers
Publishers earn a share of the startup's revenue when their work is referenced. They also have access to the vendor's LLM API and developer support. But writers are not included.
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31 Jul 2024
U.S. top science chief says federal AI R&D spending lagging
While the U.S. spends billions on broader R&D efforts annually, the Office of Science and Technology Policy is advocating for increased funding for AI research.
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31 Jul 2024
Microsoft confirms DDoS attack disrupted cloud services
Microsoft suffered a DDoS attack on Tuesday that caused massive outages for customers around the world.
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31 Jul 2024
Ransomware attack hits blood donation nonprofit
Blood donation nonprofit OneBlood is operating at a "significantly reduced capacity" due to a ransomware attack affecting its software system.
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31 Jul 2024
Campaigners call for evidence to reform UK cyber laws
The CyberUp Campaign for reform of the 1990 Computer Misuse Act launches an industry survey inviting cyber experts to share their views on how the outdated law hinders legitimate work
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31 Jul 2024
Court overturns Appian’s $2bn trade secrets award against Pegasystems
Business process management software suppliers Pegasystems and Appian head for retrial after a judge finds flaws in trade secrets trial
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31 Jul 2024
Poor connectivity holding back rural Britain
Research from leading UK operator warns the nation is sleepwalking into a countryside crisis, with 4.6 million rural residents considering moving to a town or city in the next 12 months
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31 Jul 2024
Police Digital Service confirms resignation of second director in two weeks
Companies House filing states the Police Digital Service has said goodbye to non-executive director Allan Fairley, with a representative from the company confirming his departure is for ‘conflict of interest’ reasons
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31 Jul 2024
Mayor launches London Privacy Register for smart city information
To increase transparency around and trust in London’s smart city technology deployments, the London Privacy Register aims to provide the public with more information about the systems they encounter in their day-to-day lives
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31 Jul 2024
Darktrace and Veracode enhancing partner programmes
Security vendor responds to channel feedback and rolls out enhanced options to support collaboration and encourage skills development
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31 Jul 2024
SysGroup backing artificial intelligence
Firm shares FY numbers and indicates it is committed to investing in artificial intelligence to position itself as an expert provider to the SME community
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31 Jul 2024
Salesforce, Box integrate document AI into Slack
As Salesforce prepares to roll out its own generative AI tools for Slack this fall, Box adds AI for joint users, who can use GenAI on their Box content in Slack channels.
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31 Jul 2024
Astronomer adds DBT Core support to data orchestration suite
The vendor's latest Astro platform update integrates the open source transformation tool to help users better prepare information for analytics and AI models and applications.
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31 Jul 2024
FDA accepts NDA for Vertex’s non-opioid pain drug
Vertex Pharmaceuticals revealed that the FDA has accepted its NDA for suzetrigine, a non-opioid pain inhibitor.
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31 Jul 2024
Government consults on lifting planning barriers to datacentre developments
The government is inviting feedback on its plans to rejig the UK planning system to make it more supportive of datacentre developments
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31 Jul 2024
Extreme Networks teams with Intel to drive AI-centric product innovation
Cloud networking provider forms a ‘co-innovation alliance’ with chip giant’s Connectivity Analytics Program to enhance native generative artificial intelligence solution to further drive AI-centric innovations in the networking space
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31 Jul 2024
Nominate: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2024
Tell us who you think should be included in Computer Weekly’s 2024 list of the 50 most influential women in UK technology
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31 Jul 2024
Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency
Datacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short
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31 Jul 2024
Private equity hospitals better off than non-investment hospitals
Hospitals acquired by private equity firms tend to be more financially stable compared to comparable non-private equity hospitals, according to a new study.
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31 Jul 2024
Microsoft set to spend more than $13bn on AI and cloud datacentres
Artificial intelligence is driving the Microsoft business, with the company investing in infrastructure to support AI inference workloads as demand picks up
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31 Jul 2024
Breach costs soar as record ransomware payment made
IBM publishes data on the spiralling costs of cyber attacks and data breaches, while researchers identify what appears to be the largest ransomware payment ever made
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31 Jul 2024
FDA approves colorectal cancer blood test
Guardant Health Inc. gained FDA approval for its Shield blood test to detect colorectal cancer in adults 45 and older.
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30 Jul 2024
How India is driving road safety with technology
Traffic departments, law enforcers and new-tech players are betting on technology tools such as AI-powered drones and mobile apps to improve road safety across India
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30 Jul 2024
Julia White, Scott Russell to leave SAP executive board
Two executive board members will depart SAP in a move that the company says is both to streamline the structure of the board and to focus on its AI-first strategy.
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30 Jul 2024
Researcher: CrowdStrike blunder could benefit open source
Enterprises with the IT talent might turn to open-source software as a backup for commercial products to mitigate damage from a CrowdStrike-like IT outage, researcher said.
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30 Jul 2024
Workday, Salesforce to integrate data with AI by year's end
Workday, the first SaaS provider in the Salesforce Zero Copy Partner Network, will integrate data with Salesforce, allowing AI-driven queries across HR, financial and CRM platforms.
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30 Jul 2024
Nvidia targets metaverse with OpenUSD NIM microservices
The vendor introduces new generative AI models that will be available as microservices. The new models show that the metaverse is still a part of Nvidia's strategy.
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30 Jul 2024
Court reverses Appian's $2B espionage win against Pegasystems
Two years ago, Appian was awarded damages in its lawsuit against Pegasystems, which it accused of spying. A court of appeals has reversed that decision.
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30 Jul 2024
Apple gives developers access to iOS 18 with AI, new Siri
The beta release includes AI-generated summaries for apps like mail, messages and voicemail. It does not include the ChatGPT integration or Image Playground.
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30 Jul 2024
Average cost of a healthcare data breach sits at $9.77M
Healthcare data breach costs fell by 10.6% in 2024 but remain higher than in any other industry, IBM found in its yearly report.
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30 Jul 2024
Generative AI poised to upend legal sector
Some industries might be wary of generative AI, but not legal. We find out how -- and why -- attorneys are embracing it in this Q&A with eDiscovery AI's founder, Jim Sullivan.
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30 Jul 2024
Microsoft, SecOps pros weigh kernel access post-CrowdStrike
Microsoft will explore alternatives to direct kernel access for partners following the CrowdStrike outage. But some IT pros worry that change could do more harm than good.
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30 Jul 2024
How to stop AI costs from soaring
Generative AI promises to improve business efficiency, but Gartner has found many projects are failing to get beyond pilot roll-outs
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30 Jul 2024
Basic failures led to hack of Electoral Commission data on 40 million people
UK government identifies Chinese state-linked hackers as likely to have been behind attack on the Electoral Commission
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30 Jul 2024
Microsoft: Ransomware gangs exploiting VMware ESXi flaw
VMware ESXi has proven to be a popular target for ransomware threat actors and a challenge for enterprises to patch.
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30 Jul 2024
UK competition watchdog scrutinises Alphabet and Anthropic tie-up
The Competition and Markets Authority is looking at whether Alphabet’s $2bn investment in AI startup Anthropic is anti-competitive
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30 Jul 2024
Core British Library services to return for new academic year
The British Library’s recovery from a devastating ransomware attack that laid waste to its IT systems continues - with hopes that some of its most popular services will be running again in September
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30 Jul 2024
Lemongrass taking advantage of SAP cloud moves
Vendor’s encouragement to customers to adopt its Rise technology has opened up opportunities for its channel
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30 Jul 2024
ADP and Khipu Networks partner to offer data protection
The two managed service providers will work together to get data resilience options in front of more Khipu customers
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30 Jul 2024
Wildanet accelerates Cornwall full-fibre deployment
Cornish altnet teams with Nokia and Xantaro to transform connectivity for rural and hard-to-reach areas in south-west England
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30 Jul 2024
New mRNA vaccine initiative targets avian influenza (H5N1)
A new initiative led by WHO and MPP aims to develop mRNA vaccines for avian influenza (H5N1), boosting global pandemic preparedness.
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30 Jul 2024
Paid medical chatbots better at health literacy than free ones
Both paid and free medical chatbots offer middling health literacy, but asking for a lower reading level might help.
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30 Jul 2024
GP digital tools could cause patients harm, says report
Investigation by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body finds some online tools used in general practices could cause risk to patient safety and impact GP workload
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30 Jul 2024
Providers offer 4 key payment reforms to support practices
AMA and other provider trade groups have urged Congressional leaders to reform physician payment in light of recent Medicare cuts.
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30 Jul 2024
Government commits at least £540m to financial redress for wrongfully convicted Post Office staff
Hundreds of eligible former subpostmasters and branch staff are yet to come forward to have convictions overturned, but government hopes new scheme will encourage them to do so
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30 Jul 2024
Wildfire smoke drives premature deaths, urgent innovative response
Wildfire smoke causes thousands of premature deaths annually, necessitating urgent investments in innovations to mitigate its impact.
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30 Jul 2024
Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon mobile platform
Chip giant’s next-generation mobile platform ‘leading the global transition’ from 4G to 5G to empower communities and industries alike with features such as on-device generative AI
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30 Jul 2024
APAC organisations can cut carbon emissions with AWS
Accenture study reveals that APAC organisations can significantly reduce their carbon footprint by migrating workloads from on-premise datacentres to AWS
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29 Jul 2024
SCC gains security recognition from Microsoft
Channel player SCC receives approval from Microsoft for its ability to provide managed detection and response services
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29 Jul 2024
AI ‘changing everything’ about customer experience
Study from customer experience technology provider reveals the profound effect AI is having in its industry, taking it beyond traditional, manual services to more advanced, technological-driven experiences
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29 Jul 2024
UK government sets up AI action plan unit
New government has ambitious plans to use AI to grow the economy, and has hired a tech entrepreneur to help guide the strategy
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29 Jul 2024
Scam CrowdStrike domains growing in volume
Hundreds of malicious domains exploiting CrowdStrike’s branding are appearing all over the web in the wake of the 19 July outage. Experts from Akamai share some noteworthy examples, along with guidance on how to avoid getting caught out
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29 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike says most Falcon sensors now up and running
The vast majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a coding error have now been recovered, with a final resolution expected this week
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29 Jul 2024
Open RAN investment set to surge over next five years
Research into open radio access network market shows rapidly growing and competitive market
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29 Jul 2024
WTO digital trade agreement aims to modernise global commerce
A digital trade deal negotiated over five years at the World Trade Organization has been signed by 91 countries, laying the groundwork for a new global digital trade regime
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29 Jul 2024
Abbott issues urgent correction for FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors
Abbott has identified a defect in certain FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors that may cause incorrect high glucose readings, which could pose health risks for users.
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29 Jul 2024
Exclusive heading back into private hands
Distributor’s board and founder back bid to usher in fresh majority shareholder
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29 Jul 2024
NIH study reveals pitfalls of AI in clinical decision-making
GPT-4V scored highly on the 'New England Journal of Medicine's' Image Challenge, but made mistakes when tasked with explaining its reasoning and describing medical images.
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29 Jul 2024
ALSO strengthens European position with Westcoast
Distributor tie-up will provide Swiss channel player with more options in the UK, Ireland and France