Met Office forecasts £2bn benefits from new £97m Cray supercomputer
Machine will be capable of more than 16,000 trillion calculations per second
The Met Office is to take delivery of a 140-tonne £97m Cray supercomputer in a bid to improve the accuracy of its weather forecasts and yield £2bn worth of socio-economic benefits in the process. The...
More on Server
Thank Zuck it's Friday #9 - Home Office 'super database', the software reseller claiming £270m from Microsoft and social media data breaches
This week on the IT news podcast the team discusses the Home Office's 'super database' on race, health and biometrics, the British software reseller bringing at £170m claim against Microsoft and the recent data breaches involving both Facebook and LinkedIn....
NHS approves 19 suppliers for £1bn of ICT hardware and services
Approved vendors can pitch for ICT hardware and services contracts under the Link 3 Framework to support the NHS and the wider public sector organisations
Government to buy stakes in tech start-ups, report
'FinTech is one of the UK's great success stories and will help us seize new opportunities around the world', says Rishi Sunak
Examples of AI as a force for social good
Nesta in Scotland showcases a number of projects in which humans and AI work as a team
How AI is helping the fight against COVID-19
Experts from around the world discuss the benefits artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are bringing to the battle to beat the pandemic, and the ways in which we should help the technology be more effective
