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How the British Red Cross harnessed digital mapping honed abroad for the domestic Covid-19 crisis The British Red Cross and the Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership have been putting digital mapping to work throughout the Covid-19 pandemic to help match human needs to local organisations Share this item with your network: By Published: 11 May 2021 8:30 Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, the British Red Cross has been working with the Voluntary and Community Sector Emergenc...

AWS, Microsoft and Google secure spots on £750m UK government Cloud Compute framework Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle are among the suppliers to secure a place on the four-year CCS Cloud Compute framework Share this item with your network: By Published: 11 May 2021 11:05 Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft are among the nine suppliers to have secured a place on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) £750m hyperscale-focused Cloud Compute framework. The f...

A desktop strategy for post pandemic return to work Latest Blog Posts Related Content Computational storage: What is it? Why now, what for, who from? Customer experience market made leap forward during pandemic Download Current Issue Most surveys Computer Weekly receive on remote working during the pandemic assume everyone will be running an office laptop at home. Crouching over a laptop on the kitchen table, or sitting on a couch with a notebook computer – the image many stock photog...

Imagine a world where video cameras are not just watching and reporting for security, but have an even wider positive impact on our lives. Imagine that cameras control street and building lights, as people come and go, that traffic jams are predicted and vehicles are automatically rerouted, and more tills are opened, just before a queue starts to form. Cameras with AI capabilities Cameras in stores can show us how we might look in the latest outfit as we browse. That’s the vision from Panason...

Computer Weekly - 11 May 2021: Chip supply shortages are hitting hard Computer Weekly - 11 May 2021: Chip supply shortages are hitting hard In this week’s Computer Weekly, a shortage of semiconductors is affecting industries beyond just IT – we examine the implications. We talk to the CIO of pharmacy chain Boots about how tech helped in being an essential retailer during lockdown. And we look at the prospects for young people entering the IT sector post-pandemic. Read the issue now. V...

Server-side licensing leads to hike in public cloud prices Changes made over the last year or so to protect open source revenue streams is starting to impact public cloud managed service costs Share this item with your network: By Published: 10 May 2021 14:28 Server-side types of licensing are starting to hurt some public cloud customers, according to a new study looking at the move away from open source licensing. More than half of the IT professionals who took part in a recent Vanson Bou...

Scammers Accidentally Expose Amazon Fake Review Data, Implicating Over 200,000 People KEY POINTS Customers receive their money back and also get to keep items for free Not all fake reviewers were aware that they are doing things illegally An unsecured database has just exposed a large-scale Amazon fake product review scam that implicates independent Amazon vendors and users in unethical and illegal behavior. The database containing information from scammers revealed a breach. In a blog post ...

Post Office contacts over 500 subpostmasters potentially wrongly prosecuted for financial crimes The Post Office has contacted hundreds of people it might have wrongly prosecuted for financial crimes Share this item with your network: By Published: 07 May 2021 13:43 The Post Office is contacting 540 people it might have wrongly prosecuted for financial crimes. A further 100 people have been identified and the Post Office is seeking additional information. They could have been wrongly convi...

The Office of National Statistics Data Science Campus managing director Tom Smith describes the organisation’s data capability building activities for and across government.

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