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Kim Kardashian West was given the “most thoughtful gift of a lifetime.” Her husband surprised her with a life-like hologram of her late father, Robert Kardashian, giving her a special happy birthday message. This sentimental production was made possible by Kaledia, a hologram company...

A recent Science Magazine article discusses the radical shift in COVID-19 testing needed to reopen schools and businesses. While the country increased testing throughout the summer, we have not be able to mitigate spread effectively. “Diagnostics experts, public health officials, and...

It may become tempting for protocol and attentiveness to detail to take a backseat in the face of crises; however, this puts government agencies at more of a risk from procedural error and fraudulent infiltration. To combat this, the Department of Defense released a report on best practices and...

As the country continues to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, testing remains one of the keys to mitigating the virus and reopening the economy.  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been rapidly reviewing and approving Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) in order to ensure adequate...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new search website powered by machine learning that can help researchers quickly and easily search tens of thousands of research papers and documents using natural language questions. The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released the CORD-19 dataset (COVID-19 Open...

The European Parliament is seeking to ensure all 11 Horizon Europe research partnerships are more open and less bureaucratic than their predecessors. Setting down the markers, MEPs have agreed a joint position on the first partnership of the bunch, the EuroHPC €8 billion high-performance...

Under new requirements issued by the Cabinet Office, firms seeking public sector contracts worth more than £5m a year, from September 2021, will also have to publish “clear and credible carbon reduction plans” before being considered, reports Sky News. Businesses bidding for major government...

The UN Environmental Programme is partnering with Arizona State University researchers and other experts to develop the 2021 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement, following the 2013 and 2017 editions. The stakeholder survey is to help better understand the state of sustainable...

Among the announcements in the UK’s 2021 Queen’s Speech is that a new Procurement Bill is to be introduced in the next session of the UK Parliament. That bill builds upon the consultation in the Green Paper on procurement reform which closed in March 2021. The UK government’s aim is to...

The World Health Organization report provides information on the WHO’s procurement activities in 2020. It covers procurement of goods and services, and also includes Covid-19-related procurements. The report provides procurement statistics — it says “over the past years, WHO has purchased on...

The European Parliament is seeking to ensure all 11 Horizon Europe research partnerships are more open and less bureaucratic than their predecessors. Setting down the markers, MEPs have agreed a joint position on the first partnership of the bunch, the EuroHPC €8 billion high-performance...

The free My GovShop Dashboard was launched January 2021 and is the newest product feature from GovShop.com. Designed to help further reduce the barriers to entry into the government sector by helping businesses discover, follow, and monitor government opportunities across federal, state, and local...

ProcurCompEU is a tool designed by the European Commission to support the professionalisation of public procurement. By defining 30 key competences, it provides a common reference for public procurement professionals in the European Union and beyond. It recognises and supports public procurement...

GS1 UK is a community of more than 42,000 members working in areas such as retail, foodservice and healthcare. It is one of 115 independent, not-for-profit GS1 organisations operating across 150 countries worldwide. It helps everyone involved in making, moving and trading goods to automate and...

Six European cities and regions — Amsterdam (Netherlands), Copenhagen (Denmark), Helsinki (Finland), Île-de-France, Paris Region (France), Stavanger (Norway) and Tallinn (Estonia) — have developed ambitious strategies and policy plans to become carbon neutral by at latest 2050. AI4Cities, an...