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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...

Just 6 in 10 (59%) supply chain managers believe their business will hit the UK’s 2050 net zero target, according to a survey by CIPS of 318 UK supply chain managers. It found despite much of the UK’s carbon footprint being generated in supply chains, one in five (19%) supply chain managers...

Open source software boosted the European Union’s GDP by between €65bn and €95bn in 2018, a new report published by the European Commission on Monday (6 September 2021) has shown, but warned that the EU should do more to actively promote open technologies. “Open source offers a greenfield...

The public sector will have key roles to play as a buyer and exemplar in developing the UK’s capacity in artificial intelligence, according to the new National AI Strategy, writes UKAuthority. A new strategy has been submitted to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media...

The Institute for Public Procurement is a member forum that supports public procurement practitioners to make a positive difference at work, in their communities and in the world. It has just released “Getting the Job Done in Public Procurement During Covid-19” — the results of several...

As the UK public sector attempts to build back better post-pandemic, new Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs), negotiated by Crown Commercial Service (CCS) throughout 2021/22 are helping customers get the best possible technology deals to help with their digital transformations, writes Open Access...

Periscope Holdings, a provider of procure-to-pay and supplier management solutions to the public sector, has been acquired by mdf commerce, a provider of SaaS commerce solutions, for about $207.3 million (USD), according to a press release. The Canadian B2B and business-to-government firm mdf...

Tech providers are reporting recent growth for digital procurement services at state and local levels. e-bidding procurement platform for state and local governments DemandStar, for example, recently said it had gained 200 new clients in the first half of this year, which already equals the number...

A new report has found that spending on cyber-security among the world’s small and mid-sized enterprises will grow by more than €25 billion ($30bn) in the next four years. The worldwide figure by 2025 will stand at €76 billion ($90bn), with managed security services making up one-third of...

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...