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PERSONALIZING EDUCATION CAN change a kid’s life. It can keep the advanced ones from getting bored and the struggling ones from falling behind, because every kid, no matter their level of proficiency, is encouraged to move at his or her own pace. But for the teachers tasked with implementing this increasingly popular pedagogy, it pretty much sucks. Personalizing a lesson means creating even more work than already time-strapped, under-resourced teachers can handle. It means drafting more lesson plans, digging up more reading materials, and creating more assessments than they would have to if they stuck to the old-fashioned, if imperfect, method…

A cancer charity has invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in a platform using artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose prostate cancer faster. Lucida Medical – a University of Cambridge spin-out company – has developed Pi, which uses AI to detect prostate cancer cases from MRI scans. Macmillan Cancer Support has backed the business with £350,100. It is the second investment from its two-year £3.5 million Innovation Impact Investment Portfolio, which is backing start-ups developing innovative cancer care products. It is usually diagnosed using blood tests, MRI scans and biopsies. Lucida Medical chief executive Dr Antony Rix said screening for prostate cancer “is associated with earlier stages of…

Tesco says it expects to secure a further £100 million net cash “after the settlement of certain regulatory capital amounts and after transaction costs”. The deal will see Barclays take over Tesco’s banking operations in loans, credit cards and customer savings and deposits. The bank has also entered into an exclusive long-term partnership to offer Tesco-branded credit cards, personal loans and deposits. Around 2,800 Tesco Bank employees, including its senior management, will also move to Barclays. Tesco claims the sale will remove £7.7 billion of capital-intensive assets and £6.7 billion of financial liabilities from its balance sheet. The supermarket will…

Dynatrace, a leader in unified observability and security, is releasing its latest core innovations for customers running the Dynatrace platform on Microsoft Azure, tightening cross-team collaboration and enabling more people within an organization to make data-backed decisions. These innovations include the following: Dynatrace Grail data lakehouse unifies the massive volume and variety of observability, security, and business data from cloud-native, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments while retaining the data’s context to deliver instant, cost-efficient, and precise analytics. Dynatrace AutomationEngine features a no- and low-code toolset and leverages Davis AI to empower teams to create and extend customized, intelligent, and secure workflow…

TELUS International, a digital customer experience (CX) innovator, today announced a strategic partnership with Morpheus Data, a pioneer in software for hybrid cloud management and platform operations, strengthening TELUS International’s robust suite of cloud management solutions to further elevate end-to-end digital transformations for its clients. “As businesses continue to evolve in the digital era, the demand for a revolutionary approach to developer enablement and IT service delivery has become more pressing than ever. Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of TELUS International’s hybrid cloud management capabilities, powered by Morpheus Data, to help our clients streamline and operationalize their internal…

Building on its mission to protect customer data from threats, IBM is launching a guarantee to recover immutable snapshot data in 60 seconds or less, enabling businesses to persist through a ransomware attack protected by the IBM FlashSystem with Safeguarded Copy immutable snapshot. The Safeguarded Copy feature in IBM FlashSystem enables clients to make scheduled immutable snapshots, while preserving changes to data up to the time of the snapshot. In the event of a ransomware or a cyber-attack where data is affected, clients can restore the previous snapshot for the volume and make available to the operating systems or applications…

After the New Albany City Council approved a resolution for the construction of new data centers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, will move forward with plans for new investment in New Albany. AWS is planning to invest $3.5 billion by 2030 to establish new data centers in the area. New Albany is the first community confirmed as part of AWS’s planned investment of $7.8 billion to expand data center operations in the region, which was announced by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted in June. The new data centers will support computer servers, networking…

Earlier in 2023, we discussed The Importance of Metadata here in the DBA Corner column. And, indeed, metadata is more important than ever before because it helps us to understand our data. Data without metadata lacks meaning, making it difficult to be used. Metadata gives data its form and makes it usable by your organization. Nevertheless, it can be challenging to properly create, manage, and govern metadata. Part of the challenge is coupled to the sheer volume and variety of data being managed by modern applications and systems. The increasing volume of data generated in various formats can make it challenging to…

SQream, the scalable GPU data analytics platform, is partnering with Dataiku, the platform for everyday AI, to offer a strategic integration that brings together SQream’s big data analytics technology with Dataiku’s flexible and scalable data science and machine learning (ML) platform. According to the companies, this collaboration between SQream and Dataiku offers a comprehensive solution for efficiently generating big data analytics and business insights. “Our collaboration with Dataiku marks a significant step forward in the evolution of big data analytics,” said Ami Gal, SQream’s CEO and co-founder. “Together, we are equipping organizations with the capabilities to unlock the full potential…