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George Lawton is a technology journalist that has been covering the technology industry for the last three decades. He is currently focused on digital transformation, enterprise automation, digital twins, privacy, and sustainable development. year He has written over 3,000 stories about computers, communications, knowledge management, business, health, and other areas. In the early 1990s, he helped build Biosphere II, sailed a Chinese Junk to Antarctica, and herded cattle on a 200,000-acre ranch in Australia.

Articles by George Lawton

Why Open Banking is still not such an open-and-shut case

Lee Fulmer, senior advisor at McKinsey and Chairman of the OpenUK Finance Advisory board, weighs in on why open banking is such a hard problem. His insights have important implications for the essential challenges that need to be addressed for more trustworthy financial services and AI.

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The UK’s first profitable online bank - here's the tech side of how Atom Bank pulled it off

Simon Dawson, Head of Engineering at Atom Bank, weighs in on how it became the first profitable online bank in the UK. Key elements included a focus on ethical practices and practical technology adoption metrics. He also discusses how they are assessing new AI coding tools.

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As Trump 2.0's tariff tirades deafen us, have we just forgotten about the new China rare earth controls?

New Chinese rare earth element controls are not exactly new or fair. However, further constrictions and traceability requirements on this approximately $10 billion market could have an outside impact on shaping multi-trillion dollar industries like chips, wireless, renewables, robots, and advanced military kit - and it might just be a non-story.

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Of course, AI is not alive, but it may help to treat it as if it is

Technical folks tend to argue that AI is not alive, conscious, sentient or even intelligent. Yet there are important implications to treating it so today, even before Artificial General Intelligence becomes a reality. In operation, there is always a human behind the wheel or on the road ahead much like cars.

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