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Manufacturing Wales said its members and other businesses were adopting robotics two or three years faster than expected.

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LockBit, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) hacker organization, published on its site a post about their most recent attack, which hit the multi-national consulting company Accenture. According to LockBit, the database of Accenture has been breached by the threat actors, who are now offering selling its contents on their site.

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Google may push through reductions in pay for employees that sidestep a return to the same office and instead choose to work from home permanently post-pandemic.

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Mid-size IT services firm Mphasis said it will pursue a strategy of focusing on four pillars to drive growth in FY22 and beyond.

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"Combining creative people with AI is the next step for the agencies. It's not AI versus the human, it generates creative thought".

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Diversity and inclusion: Globally, only 24% of women and ethnic minorities in tech roles feel like they have a sense of belonging in organisations, despite 75% of leadership executives believing the opposite, according to Capgemini.

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The pandemic has ushered in a new era for tech, from Zooms and pings to e-scooters and online shopping.

Back in April 2020, Microsoft's Brad Smith said two years of digital transformation had taken place in just two months.

This has made people more susceptible to malicious attacks: "It's been a good year for hackers”.

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Video conferencing firm Zoom has struck a multibillion dollar deal to buy a cloud-based call centre operator in a bet on the future of hybrid working.

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The U.S. Defense Department cancelled its $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing project on Tuesday, reversing the Trump-era award to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and announcing a new contract expected to include its rival Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and possibly other cloud players

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UK Senior managers at financial firms could see their pay linked to progress in making the workforce more diverse and inclusive, Britain's financial regulators said in a discussion paper on Wednesday.

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