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Will Europe be the first region to enact regulation for green software?

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So far, there is no regulation anywhere in the world specific to the environmental impact of software – a fact that runs alongside the reality that neither consumers nor investors are towards or away from companies based on the green credentials of their software.   Many experts expect Europe to be the first region to enact regulation that enforces green software practices. One…

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What is Dunelm doing for women in tech?

7 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, Google, Google Cloud, software engineering, Tech / By

In September 2024, Dunelm reported a 4.1% jump in annual sales to £1.71bn for the year to 29 June. During the same month, GlobalData estimated Dunelm had increased its market-leading share of the homeware sector to 11.5%, edging even further ahead of John Lewis, its closest competitor. New initiative after new initiative is a feature…

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AWS on using GenAI to speed up legacy VMware and Microsoft datacentre migrations

8 minutes of reading / Adobe, AI, Amazon, AWS, chatbot, cloud-native, Computer, software engineering, Tech / By

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set out how its investments in artificial intelligence (AI) chips and software are saving customers money and helping them migrate their legacy Windows and VMware workloads off-premise much quicker. AWS CEO Matt Garman used the opening keynote at the public cloud giant’s Re:Invent customer and partner conference in Las Vegas,…

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Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2024

18 minutes of reading / AI, blockchain, Computer, data analytics, digital transformation, fintech, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, open source, Salesforce, Siemens, software engineering, Sony, Square, Tech, Technology / By

Sheridan Ash, founder and co-CEO of Tech She Can, has become the 13th person to be named Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in UK Tech. Launched in 2012, the Computer Weekly list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech started as a list of 25, expanding to 50 in 2015, and now seeing…

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How AI is permeating enterprise IT

5 minutes of reading / Accenture, AI, automation, Cloud, Dell, digital transformation, Google, HP, Lenovo, machine learning, Microsoft, software engineering, Tech / By

Numerous IT service providers and consulting businesses have ramped up their artificial intelligence (AI) practices in recent weeks in a bid to drive demand for enterprise AI.  The latest announcement is Accenture’s expansion of its partnership with Nvidia, resulting in the formation of the Accenture Nvidia Business Group, through which it plans to help enterprises…

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IT Sustainability Think Tank: Sustainable innovation in the age of AI

5 minutes of reading / AI, blockchain, data privacy, digital transformation, machine learning, software engineering, Tech / By

The current wave of digital transformation, accelerated by the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), presents both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges. As AI continues to advance, it demands increasingly sophisticated datacentres and high-performance computing capabilities, raising critical concerns about its environmental impact. For CIOs and IT leaders, the imperative is clear: driving innovation must…

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Here are the first clues of how Apple GPT AI might work on the iPhone

4 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, chatbot, ChatGPT, Google, iPhone, Microsoft, software engineering, Tech / By

I said time and again that Apple needs its own ChatGPT rival running on its hardware, with emphasis on the Vision Pro. A report last week said that iOS 18 will incorporate Apple’s so-called “Apple GPT” generative AI software, prompting me to speculate the Vision Pro should also support the service. Over the weekend, Bloomberg’s…

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Dunelm’s journey to micro front ends

4 minutes of reading / automation, AWS, digital transformation, e-commerce, Git, IBM, Kubernetes, microservices, open source, serverless, software engineering, Tech / By

Software engineering covers all of Dunelm’s business domains. Over the past few years, the retailer has updated its IT infrastructure from running off-the-shelf ecommerce via IBM WebSphere on Rackspace to building everything in-house. “Like many companies, digital transformation starts with the website and goes deeper and wider after that,” says Paul Kerrison, director of engineering…

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Consciousness to address AI safety and security

6 minutes of reading / AI, cloud computing, Computer, software engineering, Tech / By

In February 2022, I wrote in a Computer Weekly article about metacognition, the ability to think about thinking, remains a critical gap to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). I pointed to a 2021 paper that I co-authored where we experimented with giving AI abilities in metacognition, finding that whilst the AI was slightly more…

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AI is the most hyped technology of 2023

3 minutes of reading / AI, API, cloud computing, cloud-native, data science, Git, machine learning, open source, software engineering, Tech / By

There is little surprise that Gartner’s latest research on emerging technology shows that generative AI is reaching a peak in hype. “The popularity of many new AI techniques will have a profound impact on business and society,” said Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished vice-president analyst at Gartner. “The massive pretraining and scale of AI foundation models, viral…

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