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“What we are recognising is that defence is changing the way that it's managing its business”

Jonathan Cole

Director, Defence BT 

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“There's a seismic shift happening just below the ground. It's not visible, but soon, the infrastructure will be there, so we're going to see rapid release of products and services”

Serhad Doken

Chief Technology Officer, Adeia 

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“My hope is that engineers and technologists, female and male, play a more prominent role in shaping the world's future”

Professor Eiman Kanjo

NTU 

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Deloitte China and Alibaba Cloud create auto industry centre

The new centre, created by Deloitte China and Alibaba Cloud, will focus on providing customers in the automobile industry end-to-end solutions

Old-world offices are moving to the metaverse

It’s not just well-worn web brands that make the metaverse. As more companies go virtual, is this “the nail in the coffin” for traditional workplaces?

Ongoing advancements of autonomous vehicles

With continuous advancements and developments in technology, autonomous cars are continuing to evolve and make great strides towards reality.

Baidu has recently become the first robotaxi operator in China to obtain permits for selling rides with no human driver or staff member inside the vehicles. The tech giant’s autonomous ride-hailing service, Apollo Go, is now authorised to collect fares for robotaxi rides in Chongqing and Wuhan, two of China's largest cities. "Fully driverless cars providing rides on open roads to paying customers means we have finally come to the moment that the industry has been longing for," said Wei Dong, Vice President and Chief Safety Operation Officer of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group.  FUJITSU Fujitsu and the Riken Research Institute are set to offer quantum computing capabilities to companies operating in Japan. From April 2023, Fujitsu will become the country's first domestic company to commercialise quantum computing.

 GOOGLE CLOUD Google Cloud claims to have repelled the biggest HTTPS DDoS attack ever recorded, after a Cloud Armor customer was targeted by attacks peaking at 46 million requests per second (RPS).

 TWITTER Twitter has confirmed that the phone numbers and email addresses of 5.4 million accounts have been stolen. In a statement on its website, Twitter said that, in January 2022, it received a report of a vulnerability in Twitter's systems.

 PLEX Video-on-demand service Plex has notified its customers of a data breach in which email addresses, encrypted passwords, and usernames were stolen by a third party.