Chinese search engine giant Baidu has created a new CNY10bn ($1.5bn) Apollo Fund to invest in more than 100 new and emerging autonomous driving projects in the next three years. The company has also released Apollo 1.5, its latest ...
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As an industry, manufacturing has multiple ways of defining hazards and even more ways of communicating about those hazards. Designed to create a worldwide standard, the Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of ...
Nike, Inc. released its FY12-13 Sustainable Business Performance Summary, providing an update on performance against current business, labor and environmental goals as the company works toward its goal of decoupling profitable growth from ...
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The government could save up to £70bn by 2020 if it shifted away from paper and digitised its activities, learned to work in new ways but with fewer staff, sought out for the best procurement deals, and made use of data and analytics, ...
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About 50,000 clinicians are expected to learn how to code over the next few years, according to NHS England's director of patients and information, Tim Kelsey. Kelsey said that a new initiative called Code4Health will launch this autumn ...
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Berg has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with the US Department of Defense, to advance prostate cancer research. The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' (USU) Center for Prostate Disease Research ...
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The Houses of Parliament want to move to Microsoft Office 365, and will mitigate the risk of the US Patriot Act by making contractual agreements to ensure sensitive data sits in Europe. At the Cloud World Forum in London Olympia today, ...
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The government's Open Standards Principles is one of a number of factors - including G-Cloud, that'll help it achieve a target of reaching a quarter of all ICT procurement contracts being provided to small and medium-sized enterprises ...
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G8 leaders have signed an Open Data Charter, in which all nations involved have agreed to "establish an expectation that all government data be published openly by default". All eight nations attended a summit in Northern Ireland which ...
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The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers. The alliance was set up in ...
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The Shakespeare Review into public sector data has suggested that data held across the public sector, including the National Health Service ought to be used to drive economic growth. Further reading Obama signs executive order promoting ...
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring that government data be made available in open, machine-readable formats, expanding open-access requirements from earlier in his administration. A new open data policy, ...
US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that requires government agencies to make publicly accessible data open and machine readable. "Government information shall be managed as an asset throughout its life cycle to ...
While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are seeking, according to a study released ...
EPIC publishes European photonics database 26 Apr 2013 Industry survey pegs European photonics market at close to €66?billion in 2012. A new survey of the European photonics ecosystem estimates it to have been worth nearly ...
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