TL;DROrganisations use big data to answer one of four questions: descriptive (what happened), diagnostic (why), predictive (what will), or prescriptive (what to do), each requiring different data and maturity.Global datasphere...
IBM permanently decommissioned the Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory on March 31, 2013. The machine had been the first to break the petaflop barrier, reaching 1.026 petaflops in...
Amazon has not abandoned Alexa. It has radically restructured the organization behind it, cutting thousands of jobs, replacing longtime hardware chief Dave Limp with Panos Panay, and pivoting the product's...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted on 14 April 2016 by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. It came into force on 24 May...
Five years of planning collapsed in a single weekend. When TSB flicked the switch to move customer accounts from Lloyds Banking Group to its new Proteo4UK system on 21-22 April...
In July 2018, the United States imposed its first round of tariffs on goods from the People's Republic under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, citing what the...
This reference piece draws on the International Churchill Society's database to separate Churchill's actual words from the lines often pasted onto his name. It treats Churchill as more than a...
Web Summit, one of the largest technology gatherings on the calendar, cancelled its in-person Lisbon edition for November 2020 and moved entirely online. The event that had packed more than...
Persistent, unmanaged stress at work is not a personal wellness problem. It is a measurable drag on business outcomes. The World Health Organization classified burnout as an occupational phenomenon in...
On 25 April 2019, the UK Competition and Markets Authority formally blocked the proposed merger between J Sainsbury plc and Asda Group Ltd. Both companies walked away the same day....
Professional sports venues spent the 2020s layering on digital tools that promised to make the live event better than watching from a couch. The results have been uneven. Tap-to-pay terminals...
Neil Shah became CEO of Slack in 2023, inheriting a business that had cycled through two leaders since Salesforce acquired it for $27.7 billion in July 2021. The question was...
