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AWS Hires Investigators After Gender Discrimination Petition
Amazon hires outside investigators after AWS staff petition alleging 'systemic discrimination, harassment, bullying and bias against women”
Microsoft Adds Another Security Acquisition With CloudKnox
CloudKnox is being acquired by software giant Microsoft, to equip it with unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management
Japan Sets Data Transfer Speed Record Of 319Tbps
Researchers in Japan have set a stunning data transmission speed record of 319Tbps, over a long distance of 3,001km or 1,864 miles
Newport Wafer Fab Sold To China, Has UK Government Defence Contracts
Newport Wafer Fab has over a dozen UK government research contracts, including a defence contract, despite being sold to Chinese-owned Nexperia
SAP Invests £216m In UK, Opens Offices In London, Manchester
Germany's most valuable company (SAP) is to invest £216m in the UK for the SAP UK Data Cloud, as well as open new offices
Silicon UK Podcast: How Much Technical Debt Does Your Business Have?
OutSystems reports that 69% of IT leaders identify technical debt as a major threat to their companies’ ability to innovate. With COVID-19 exposing vulnerabilities in organisations around the world, this latest industry survey from Out ...
Cambridge Data Finds Bitcoin Miners Shifting Away From China
Bitcoin mining operations began shifting out of China even before country began crackdown earlier this year, while Kazakhstan and US see mining surge
Google Parts Ways With Cloudera Cofounder – Report
Executive Amr Awadallah reportedly departs from Google Cloud, after staff complaints over leadership style and personal manifesto
TSMC Considers Construction Of Japanese Factory – Report
World's largest contract chipmaker is considering construction of a new factory in Japan to help tackle global chip shortage
ARM Touts Performance Per Watt As New ‘Moore’s Law’
Traditional Moore's Law is no longer relevant in today world's, argues ARM, and says 'performance per watt' is the better metric
Microsoft Launches ‘Cloud PC’ Service With Windows 365
True device independence? Microsoft users can now stream their Windows operating system onto an Apple Mac, tablet, or smartphone
Connected Cars: The State of Digital Transport
The age of electric transport is here. As autonomous vehicles continue to develop and the digital space extends to personal and municipal vehicles, how will digital transport evolve? And what does this mean for businesses?
Judge Dismisses Amazon’s JEDI Challenge After Project Cancelled
US judge dismisses Amazon's challenge to Pentagon award of $10bn JEDI contract to Microsoft as Defence Department plans new cloud project
UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer, Cambridge-1, Targets Healthcare
Nvidia's Cambridge-1 is now the UK's most powerful supercomputer, and will offer research capabilities for healthcare and AI
Microsoft, AWS React To JEDI Cancellation
Reactions from both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft to the Pentagon's decision to pull the plug on the JEDI cloud contract
Pentagon Cancels JEDI Cloud Contract
Seething Microsoft? US DoD loses patience and pulls the plug on $10 billion JEDI cloud contract, after legal challenge by Amazon Web Services
ARM CEO Insists Nvidia Purchase Better Than IPO
Head of ARM strongly defends Nvidia acquisition, which he says is a much better alternative than being a standalone public company again
Jeff Bezos Steps Down As Amazon CEO
The king is dead, long live the king. Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos steps down today and is succeeded by veteran Andy Jassy
Government Welcomes EU Data Protection Agreement
Personal data will continue to 'seamlessly flow' between the United Kingdom and Europe, after European Union agreement
Mobile World Congress Returns To Barcelona With ‘Hybrid’ Event
Mobile World Congress returns to Barcelona for Europe's first major tech conference since beginning of Covid-19 pandemic, with talks from Elon Musk and Samsung
US Takes Aim At Big Tech, Approves Breakup Antitrust Bill
Big tech firms face real breakup threat after one draft antitrust bill in US House of Representative gains official approval
US Regulator Proposes More Restrictions For Huawei
Federal Communications Commission grants initial approval for rules banning new Huawei and ZTE equipment, and requiring carriers to 'rip and replace'
Chip Shortage Forces Subaru To Temporarily Shut Factories
Japan-based Subaru becomes latest car maker to close factories due to ongoing chip shortages hitting automotive sector hard
World Bank Rejects El Salvador Bitcoin Request
Crypto setback? World Bank refuses a formal request from El Salvador to assist with implementation of Bitcoin as legal tender
Print Your Own: The State of Additive Manufacturing
3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), looked set to revolutionise how products would be created. Today, from hobbyists to advanced personalised drugs, AM continues to rapidly evolve to usher in a new age where the limits of trad ...
Amazon Web Services To Build Data Centre In Israel
New AWS infrastructure region is slated to arrive in first half of 2023, and will offer cloud services to variety of organisations in Israel
Microsoft To Sell Products From Its ‘Experience Centres’
A year after Microsoft closed down all its retail stores and kept some 'experience centres', it will once again sell products from the remaining locations
Fastly Blames Global Outages On Software Bug
Global outage of major websites on Tuesday was caused when an expected customer change, triggered an undiscovered software bug
Major Websites Down After Global Outage
Major internet outage knocks oflline big name websites such as UK Government, Amazon, CNN, Bloomberg, Financial Times offline