We have reached a point where we start to fantasise. After one year of being cooped up at home (with little getaways in between when borders were opened), even introverts have dreams to meet up with friends, to go out there and paint the city red. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Last week, I wrote an analysis of Reward Is Enough, a paper by scientists at DeepMind. As the title suggests, the researchers hypothesize that the right reward is all you need to create the abilities associated with intelligence, such as perception, motor functions, and language. This…
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. This post was written by Kristin Ellerbe, vice president of technology, PrecisionHawk While many utilities acknowledge the transformational power of data, leveraging it can be another story. You could have millions of data points on everything from the condition of utility poles to hours spent…
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. “The thing that really attracted me to Formula 1 is that it’s always been about data and technology,” says Graeme Hackland, Williams Group IT director and chief information officer of Williams Racing. Since joining the motorsport racing team in 2014, Hackland has been putting that…
McDonald’s has announced a major post-Covid expansion in the UK and Ireland, with the fast food chain set to open 50 new restaurants and create 20,000 new jobs. The fast food giant is also planning to introduce “Grab & Go options in areas with a high worker population and improved click and collect facilities”. There…
A raft of commercial landlords are considering launching legal action against the government after it extended its business eviction ban until March 2022. The British Property Federation, a lobby group for commercial landlords, is looking at all legal options as there is now an estimated £6bn in unpaid rents throughout Covid-19. Chief secretary of the…
The UK tech sector has now 100 UK tech companies valued at $1bn or more, according to new data from Dealroom and Tech Nation, shared with City A.M. this weekend. The UK’s 100th tech unicorn, Tractable, an AI startup building computer vision tools, announced a $60m Series D raise, which takes the company’s valuation to…
John Lewis is facing a backlash from brands over how much they are being charged to stock products with the retail giant. Brands already pay John Lewis up to 50 per cent of each sale in commissions and fees, however the company’s chair Dame Sharon White has enlisted Alix Partners to renegotiate this higher. For…
French President Emmanuel Macron has began a new push to bring City of London firms to Paris post-Brexit. JP Morgan chief Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon have been invited to Macron’s “Choose France” event at the Palace of Versailles on 28 June, where the President will try to make the case for investment in…
A French national treasure, the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile, stands a colossal 164 feet high, 148 feet wide, and 72 feet deep and is dedicated to the armies of the Republic and Empire. (Paris 16/CC BY-SA 2.0) ) Larger Than Life: Art that inspires us through the ages In 1805, Napoléon Bonaparte promised “triumphal arches” to…
