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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower CTO

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO

In a world where business, strategy and technology must be tightly interconnected, the enterprise architect must take on multiple personas to address a wide range of concerns. These include everything from technical design to ecosystem management and navigating emerging technology trends like AI.

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

TechCrunch

Emergency response services have had a big boost of data thanks to advances in connected technology, with watches that can detect when their wearers are falling down and are experiencing trauma, cars that can pinpoint where their drivers are located and home systems that can transmit important data about fires when you cannot. Big Tech Inc.

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Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round

TechCrunch

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Next year, he hopes to launch a personal fund to support people of color and will focus on tech and hardware innovation.

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Navigating the future of national tech independence with sovereign AI

CIO

Sovereign AI refers to a national or regional effort to develop and control artificial intelligence (AI) systems, independent of the large non-EU foreign private tech platforms that currently dominate the field. This allows countries to maintain leadership in emerging technologies and create economic opportunities.

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Global tariffs shake up CIOs’ IT agendas

CIO

The new tariffs will not only drive up tech prices but also disrupt supply chains and weaken global IT spending this year, IDC warned in a blog post. The research firm is projecting a move closer to the previous downside of 5% growth, which reflects a rapid, negative impact on hardware and IT services spending.

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3 talent strategies to help tackle technical debt

CIO

Technical debt is a growing problem that businesses can’t ignore. These technical challenges can significantly impact the performance and stability of critical operations and must be addressed as a priority. Organizations spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets and investing on technical debt management.