Alt Text: a photo of the London skyline from a high angle. Photo by Alev Takil on Unsplash. This week’s top articles include two articles on different economies, an introduction to project planning, and how technology is being used to help farmers in Malawi.    There will be no blog post next week as I’m away on leave. However, as always, if you want advice and support on any of the topics raised, get in touch and we will be more than happy to help.   Business: This article from Business Insider explores how China may be losing its status as a global economic superpower: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-xi-jinping-economy-real-estate-debt-bust-american-companies-2023-10?r=US&IR=T This BBC News article reports that UK wages are growing faster than inflation for the first time in nearly two years, implying that the cost-of-living crisis may be starting to ease: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67121459?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA Technology: This TechC...

Alt text: an image of Euro and US dollar notes. Photo by Ibrahim  Boran on Unsplash. This week’s articles look at the IMFs prediction for the UK’s economy, new laws in California regarding personal data, and the EU’s space age technology.   As ever, {n}.bora are  able to provide advice and support on any of the topics raised. Business: This BBC News article reports that the IMF has defended it assessment of the UK economy, predicting it will have the lowest performance out of all of the G7:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67056069?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA   Technology: California has signed in a law that allows individuals to force data brokers to delete data relating to them.     This Guardian article provides more information:   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/10/california-delete-act-signed-newsom Advice: As well as endorsing their own product, this blog from IBM looks at how technology can be used to keep up ...

Alt Text: a colourful pattern of cubes representing algorithms. Photo by Google Deepmind on Unsplash. Articles this week include how venture capitalism has changed since the 1980s, the EU’s first exoscale supercomputer, and algorithmic governance in AI. As ever, we can provide advice and support on any of the topics raised.   Business:  This article from the Generalist looks at the differences between venture capitalists in the 1980s and now, discussing an article from 1984:  https://www.generalist.com/briefing/what-do-venture-capitalists-do Technology:  A German-French consortium has won a contract to build the EU’s first exascale supercomputer, or a supercomputer capable of performing a billion billion calculations a second. This article from the Next Web contains some more information:  https://thenextweb.com/news/german-french-consortium-european-exascale-computer-jupiter Advice: This article from the Digital Project Manager explains project plans and gives ...

  Alt text: an image of two cryptocurrency coins, one with an image of a Shiba Inu dog on it.  Photo by  Traxer on Unsplash. This week’s articles include the rapid decline of NFTs, an explanation of APIs, and how to manage people as if they are, well, people. If you want advice on any of these topics, as always, get in touch with {n}.bora and we will be more than happy to have a chat. Business: E-commerce giant Amazon is facing a lawsuit filed by the US Federal State Commission and 17 states, accusing it of using its monopoly to inflate prices and hinder competition. This Guardian article provides some more information:   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/26/amazon-ftc-price-inflation-lawsuit Technology:  This TechCrunch article reports that the US Federal Communications Commission has announced plans to introduce net neutrality rules, meaning that broadband providers cannot favour some websites over others:   https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26...