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Accenture has made another move to boost its sustainability credentials in the UK with the acquisition of carbon and climate change strategy consultancy, Carbon Intelligence. The company, which, using Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) strategies, helps organisations understand their overall carbon footprint and how to reduce it, brings 160 people, including data scientists, consultants, and sustainability experts, into the Accenture fold. The company is an accredited partner to CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project).

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Several months have passed since the Public Accounts Committee issued its damning report on the fallout from the introduction of the IR35 reforms in the public sector, and HMRC has shared its feedback on its contents.

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Global operator announces 5G service-based architecture combined with automation via network orchestration, allowing customers to imagine and deploy new differentiated services quickly and scale them economically.

In what the leading Australia-based telecoms provider has called the world’s first, Telstra has announced fully automated 5G network slicing for a commercial network.

In the partnership, Telstra and Ericsson will be going outside the lab and into to the real world of business to deploy an automated standards-based network slicing service orchestration capability in the commercial network, using Ericsson Orchestration and Ericsson Inventory.

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The virtual conference room needs to die. VR is better used for fun and building relationships.

“Welcome, welcome!” My guide, Philip, waves at me from his seat in a virtual conference room, where he’s wearing a green shirt and sitting at a desk. I’m at Facebook’s Reality Labs headquarters in Burlingame, California, wearing Meta Platform Inc.’s Quest 2 headset. Philip is in another room there as his cartoonish-looking avatar hops to another seat using a button on his virtual dashboard.

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Britain has dropped behind India to become the world’s sixth largest economy, delivering a further blow to the government in London as it grapples with a brutal cost-of-living shock.

The former British colony leaped past the UK in the final three months of 2021 to become the fifth-biggest economy. The calculation is based in US dollars, and India extended its lead in the first quarter, according to GDP figures from the International Monetary Fund.

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Research firm pinpoints standardisation and uniform practices as key to unlocking the full potential of 5G slicing.

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Deloitte survey shows the ways in which people are using connected devices and technology to improve and enhance their lives, in particular dealing with the balance of hybrid work.

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Indonesian e-commerce unicorn Bukalapak’s multicloud strategy, underpinned by the use of microservices and DevOps, has enabled it to meet the diverse needs of its users while addressing business requirements

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Cognizant UK’s winning streak continues in the shape of a large deal with AXA UK & Ireland. The multi-year transformational managed services contract will see the offshore-centric major help to consolidate, modernise and manage part of the insurer’s IT operations.

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The Co-operative Bank (The Co-op) has selected cloud-based technology from banking specialist Finastra as it looks to modernise its treasury infrastructure. The Co-op is implementing Finastra’s Kondor solution which is available via Microsoft Azure and will help the bank to automate manual processes and provide access to ongoing upgrades and innovation.

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