Acclaim Autism exists to help children with autism spectrum disorder, but before doing so, the Philadelphia-based company has to get approval from US health insurers. Founder and president Jamie Turner says this typically took six months, with 80% of applications initially rejected. Insurer processes vary widely: public bodies are generally easier to work with, but…
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Software development is associated with the idea of not reinventing the wheel, which means developers often select components or software libraries with pre-built functionality, rather than write code to achieve the same result. There are many benefits of this approach. For example, a software component that is widely deployed is likely to have undergone extensive…
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Mariano Albera describes himself as “a software engineer who was demoted to chief technology officer” (CTO). Now at global payments processing company Checkout.com, Albera heads up the operational and customer-facing IT team, made up of around 600 IT professionals. This is a significant portion of the fintech’s total workforce of 2,000, which – if you…
Fresh rumors suggest AMD could increase its GPU prices soonThis follows previous speculation hinting at Nvidia and AMD potentially discontinuing some GPUsNow may be the best time to act on GPU deals as a resultThe AI boom is in full swing and has had a major impact on the price of PC hardware, especially for…
The UK and Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG) Connect 25 conference has opened in Birmingham with a keynote session recognising the challenges business face. The user group itself has adapted to changes in the technology market such as the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in business applications and the economic climate that has a profound…
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Dominic Redmond, group CIO of recruitment firm PageGroup, is a digital leader driven by a desire to help his team and the rest of the business use data to boost operational processes and customer services. Having started his career as a project manager, Redmond delivered major initiatives for Xerox and Aon that touched on the…
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aileenchik/Shutterstock Let the debate begin! There are two distinctive phone camps: iOS and Android. Usability, functionality, app stores, design, and other factors differ greatly between them. One area of heated debate concerns safety. iOS is a walled garden, very tightly restricted to only Apple devices. Android, on the other hand, prides itself in being an…
Data is critically important to almost any business – it’s the lifeblood that makes an organisation function. But managing, leveraging and realising the commercial advantage of data is also hard. If fully leveraging data is difficult enough, the bar is only getting higher – with AI changing the game. Traditionally, approaches to data have been…
Summit Art Creations/Shutterstock Earlier this year, Chinese startup DeepSeek made headlines by offering its free AI model DeepSeek-R1 that claimed to match ChatGPT-level performance. Now, Moonshot AI, another Chinese startup, has launched its Kimi K2 Reasoning model, claiming it outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks. Kimi K2 surpasses both GPT-5…
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If 2024 and 2025 were the years organisations felt the strain of tightening budgets, 2026 is the year those decisions will fully manifest in their cyber risk exposure. Across both the private and public sectors, years of belt-tightening have led to reduced headcount, ageing infrastructure and postponed modernisation. Analyst reports show growth in cyber security…
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