DeepMind, the artificial intelligence (AI) company and research lab bought by Google in 2014, is developing an educational initiative designed to fill some of the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills that the UK is lacking. In partnership with several charities and social enterprises, DeepMind said it would be developing educational resources and […]
Denmark-based fintech Nord Investments has adopted open banking technology from Aiia to make it easier for people using its platform to make investments. The robotic software investment platform, which currently only operates in Denmark, said it wanted to make it easier for its 7,000 active investors to make payments onto the platform when making […]
The cancer treatment and research centre at Guy’s has begun a five-year collaboration with Careology, a provider of healthcare platforms. Guy’s Cancer has become the first site to launch a digital cancer care platform for its patients and care teams. Through the five-year agreement, Guy’s Cancer aims to deliver innovation in digital cancer care […]
Indian IT services supplier HCLTech is to digitally transform the digital experience of fans of American football teams the New York Jets and New York Giants. Through a contract with MetLife Stadium, the home of the two teams, HCLTech – known as HCL Technologies before its recent rebranding – will attempt to make the […]
Clinicians at branches of Specsavers used data on clinical outcomes to identify a 66% fall in referrals to hospital ophthalmologists during the initial Covid-19 lockdown, the company’s global data officer has said. “That wasn’t picked up by us as a team, it was picked up by the clinicians,” Helen Mannion told a keynote session […]
UK broadcasters tend to focus their use of data on a few specific departments and applications rather than across their organisations, speakers from the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV told the Big Data LDN (London) conference on 22 September. Megan Stamper, head of data science for the BBC’s product group, said the corporation had […]
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TSB has revealed that fraudsters are taking advantage of the cost-of-living crisis by impersonating family members and tricking relatives into sending them money to help pay bills. Friends and family fraud, as it is known, has increased by 58% in recent months, according to TSB data. These online scams typically see criminals use online […]
Business continuity plans ensure data availability and maintain operations during disasters and downtime. Downtime mitigation is a requirement for every organization, and a strong business continuity plan is key to maintain or restore operations in a crisis. Downtime prevention, however, is more complicated than planning for traditional crisis scenarios, such as natural disasters or hardware […]
A Russian cyber attack group has been targeting politicians, journalists, and military and intelligence officials across Britain and Europe for at least seven years, and may have stockpiled access to and data from target computers and phones for future operations, according to data analysed by Computer Weekly. The group’s greatest success to date has […]