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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption This pandemic is the first to be played out via smartphones It's the first pandemic of the smartphone era - and that means governments have access to new ways of tracking the spread of Covid-19. On this week's Tech Tent, we find out about…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption This pandemic is the first to be played out via smartphones It's the first pandemic of the smartphone era - and that means governments have access to new ways of tracking the spread of Covid-19. On this week's Tech Tent, we find out about…

On March 6, Mountain View-based Google gave employees as its Bay Area offices the option to work from home as local counties report more cases of COVID-19. Voice file photo. Google, Facebook, Amazon, SAP and Palantir Technologies. In droves, leading Silicon Valley-based tech companies weathering the brewing storm of the…

Amazon said it plans to pay hourly workers who service its East Palo Alto offices usually occupied by employees who have now been told to work from home to avoid potential spread of the new coronavirus. Weekly file photo by Veronica Weber. Google, Facebook, Amazon, SAP and Palantir Technologies. In…

As an application, Federated Search needs to keep pace with changes in React and Drupal. On 1 January 2020, the Search API Solr module deprecated its 1.x branch in favor of 3.x, which supports Solr 7. Similarly, Acquia will be discontinuing Solr 4 in favor of Solr 7 throughout 2020.…

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palantir today announced that they have been awarded a contract to support follow-on production work under the US Navy’s Naval Operational Business Logistics Enterprise (NOBLE) Family of Systems (FoS). Under this contract, Palantir will deliver its commercial software to serve as NOBLE’s Integrated Data Environment (IDE) - providing an…

The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and “public safety” cameras, 911 emergency systems, location data for state-owned vehicles, and other sensitive data. The company, called Banjo, says that it's combining this data with information collected from social media, satellites,…

For every dollar invested in the Internal Revenue Service, the agency collects an average $5 in revenue, making it “one of the best investments in the federal government,” according to the Treasury Department’s fiscal 2021 budget justification. But the Treasury Department has also advised Congress that every dollar invested in…

Historically, upgrading to a new major version of Drupal has been a time-consuming and expensive process involving first building an entirely new website in Drupal (content modeling, module installation, setting configuration, creating a new theme), and then creating a detailed process to migrate content from the previous Drupal website. Then Drupal…

Mavenoid, a startup founded in Stockholm that helps companies scale tech-focused product support via an AI-powered chatbot, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Mosaic Ventures, alongside Creandum and Point Nine Capital.The company says the new capital will be used to invest further in…