Profit vs Purpose – How data can be used to tackle humanitarian challenges
Companies successfully using data across several business areas are more likely than others to be taking action against humanitarian challenges. This group of businesses, dubbed Data Leaders in Lenovo’s latest ‘Data for Humanity’ report, are already benefitting financially too, with over t...
January 23
Businesses warned of footing bills of up to $5m per data breach
Businesses across the globe have been told that the average cost of a data breach could reach US$5 million in 2023, potentially leaving millions of SMEs out of pocket if the worst happens. The warning has come as threats from phishing and malicious emails increased by 60% in the second half of 2022 alone, according to the latest data by cyber firm Acronis. Researchers at...
January 17
Huawei joins pledge to bring digital infrastructure to 120m people by 2025
Huawei has announced it will join the Partner2Connect digital alliance, which will bring connectivity to about 120 million people in remote areas in more than 80 countries by 2025. The coalition is a multistakeholder alliance launched by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations (UN) and its end goal is to eradicate the digital divide which stil...
November 28
Physics Nobel celebrates quantum mechanics ‘ground-breaking experiments’
The 2022 Nobel prize in physics has been won by three researchers for their work on quantum mechanics. Alain Aspect, 75, John F Clauser, 79, and Anton Zeilinger, 77, have won the much-coveted accolade as well as 10m Swedish kronor (~US$916,450), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced on Tuesday. According to the official citation for the award, the ...
October 05
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