[ad_1] Empowering women in technology was on full display at the 2024 SheHacks annual hackathon held in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban on 22 and 23 August. An important 2-day event during women’s month, the 2024 SheHacks edition recorded exceptional creativity on display and a keen focus on the importance of collaboration and supportive environments ...

[ad_1] TOKYO—A first-ever gathering of defense chiefs from Japan, South Korea, and the United States here produced a trilateral security agreement, “grave concern” over increasing Russian-North Korean cooperation, and vague opposition to “unilateral attempts to change the status quo”—a reference to China and Taiwan.  Separately, the United States and Japan announced a new effort to ...

[ad_1] A couple of years ago, as schools that had been forced to go virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic began to bring students back on campus, Pedro Olvera noticed that his phone started ringing more. Olvera spent much of his career as a school psychologist in Santa Ana Unified School District, just a stone’s ...

[ad_1] Defense One Radio, Ep. 154: Behind the rise in global defense spending, Part 3: The wider world – Defense One Skip to Content Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. Senior Multimedia Editor, Defense One May 20, 2024 09:51 AM ET Google Pla Apple Podcasts Guest: Chris Blattman, ...

[ad_1] Marines deploying to Asia for recent exercises learned to hide their command posts using local cell phone networks and other commercial tech, part of a growing push within the military to adapt to modern battlefields.  The Marines’ command posts, whose tell-tale radio emissions could give away their position to an enemy, were able to ...

[ad_1] UFP Industries Inc. is launching B2B marketplace TimberBase. The company supplies products primarily manufactured from wood, wood and non-wood composites, and other materials. UFP Industries generates annual sales of $7.6 billion and is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It has launched TimberBase.com, a B2B marketplace for buying and selling lumber and building materials. UFP ...

[ad_1] JAKARTA, Indonesia—The U.S. wants to help shore up Indonesia’s military cyber defenses and space capabilities as part of a newly upgraded defense cooperation plan, defense officials announced Thursday. “As we train with allies and partners, we want to make sure that we’re helping them bring their capabilities along as well,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ...

[ad_1] What telecommunication and information technology companies do with business digital commerce and B2B marketplaces is often a harbinger of what industries will do ecommerce and how soon. And these days, IT and telecommunications companies are doing — and getting a lot from — B2B digital commerce, based on a new survey from McKinsey & ...

[ad_1] Salesforce announced this week that its revenue grew 11% year over year in the 2024 second fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2023. It also focused on its artificial intelligence tool development, specifically addressing generative AI tools. Salesforce revenue drivers Salesforce revenue grew to $8.60 billion for the quarter. Furthermore, Salesforce subscription and support revenue ...

[ad_1] Many of the largest tech companies in the United States are so intertwined with China that they likely would not survive a massive geopolitical crisis between the two countries, research from data services company J.H. Whitney shows.  Such a crisis would also likely bump leading tech-associated companies like Meta (parent company of Facebook) and ...