Calls for global approach to curtail self-preferencing behaviour, unhelpful opacity that crimps competition Google utterly dominates Australian advertising, and only new rules can curb the harm its dominance does to local and global markets.…
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Lees meerNow sing with us: Agile, agile, agile... Exclusive Metro Bank has put "less than 90" IT employees at risk of redundancy as it endeavours to "support our new agile way of working" – agile being that nebulous yet overused term that can be heard in ce…
Lees meerDear John, I'm leaving you for a robot Feature High-performance computing (HPC) has a very different dynamic to the mainstream. It enables classes of computation of strategic importance to nation states and their agencies, and so it attracts invest…
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Lees meerCoin prices drop after People's Bank reiterates crackdown China has once again banned cryptocurrencies.…
Lees meerTechnical difficulties, please stand by Giant Pay – an umbrella company used by contractors across the UK – has confirmed "suspicious activity" on its platform is behind a days-long ongoing outage that has left folk fretting about whether they'll ge…
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Lees meerNew guys can't do a worse job than Capita, right? Right? The UK Armed Forces are looking to restart a £1.7bn procurement for recruitment and onboarding of personnel to cover extensive IT investments as well as process outsourcing.…
Lees meerPolymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars Boffins at Japan's Keio University reckon they've built viable optical fibers from plastics.…
Lees meer'Broadband' is defined as 512kbps – for now – and just 24 million current connections are wired India's Telecoms Regulatory Authority has revealed that the nation has over 800 million active broadband subscribers.…
Lees meerNA CEO predicts takeoff in 18 months max Folks in the US will see the transformative effects of 5G first in the areas of online gaming and fixed wireless broadband internet connections, Ericsson North America CEO Niklas Heuveldop said on Thursday.…
Lees meerTech trade groups argue prohibition on moderation is unconstitutional Two IT trade groups on Wednesday challenged the constitutionality of Texas' new social media law, arguing that it compels companies to host speech they disagree with in violation …
Lees meerPartnerships are our future, says tycoon Dell CEO Michael Dell once loved big-ticket acquisitions, but not anymore.…
Lees meerFind out how to crack the portability conundrum Sponsored The hyperscalers are an unsentimental bunch. So it is that they are disaggregating servers from storage, allowing each to scale separately as applications and workloads demand, and squeezing…
Lees meerCupertino thinks EU plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it' Smartphones, tablets, and cameras sold within the European Union could be forced to adopt a single standard charging port by the middle of the decade if the latest plans from t…
Lees meerThe Great Gig in the Sky, or a new plan on GigSky? Mobile tech outfit GigSky is to add a data plan to its mobile app, using the Citizen's Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) small cell infrastructure deployed by the Helium blockchain community.…
Lees meerBrit telco says buyout will mean less competition, higher prices, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria BT has spelled out its opposition to the proposed takeover of Hutchison’s mobile phone masts and towers in the UK by Spanish towerco Celln…
Lees meerHardware capabilities, latest feature updates? You'll get what you pay for Intel's vision of the computing architecture of autonomous vehicles is similar to that of PCs, with pricey models getting better hardware and the latest software, and cheaper…
Lees meerWhat tools are available? What are the benefits? Let's find out Systems Approach In 1984, artificial intelligence was having a moment. There was enough optimism around it to inspire me to explore the role of AI in chip design for my undergraduate t…
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