When (and if) if the Afeela electric car from Sony Honda Mobility goes on sale, it will use the Snapdragon Digital Chassis from Qualcomm -- an automotive technology platform that combines safety and connectivity systems, entertainment, customization, and upgradability all into one product. For automakers, finding the right technology partner means simplifying a vehicle's architecture and unlocking new revenue streams in the form of passenger entertainment and downloadable upgrades. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Digital Chassis is comprised of four automotive systems -- Snapdragon Auto Connectivity includes connected systems like 5G and vehicle-to-vehicle technologies, Snapdragon Cockpit Platform supplies the digital instrument clusters and infotainment controls, Snapdragon Car-to-Cloud makes over-the-air software updates possible, and the Snapdragon Ride Platform supplies driver assistance technologies and autonomous driving capability. "There is a tremendous amount of opportunity to reinvent the car," Nakul Duggal, Qualcomm's senior vice president and general manager for automotive, tells Wired. "And a tremendous amount of that reinvention is happening because the car is becoming a truly digital product."

Insurance Times' annual Tech and Innovation Awards were back last night (22 September 2022) at London's glamorous Royal Lancaster Hotel. Sponsored by Genasys, NIG, Carpenters Group and Sønr, the event showcased 22 different award categories recognising finalists that are going the extra mile to use technology to improve insurance processes and the customer experience. Opening the evening, Insurance Times editor Katie Scott said: "Just featuring on one of tonight's shortlists is an accolade in itself. "The same goes for the nominated categories – in particular Technology Champion of the Year. It's so inspiring to see how firms have really capitalised on accelerated technology and digital advancements made during the Covid-19 pandemic."

Scaleflex joins a small group of enterprise technology companies serving VIP clients and is the first European-based modern Digital Asset Management provider to propose a fully customizable media picker widget for online news and media businesses, industrial brands and large finance groups. With more than 40% of the web and 60% of the global CMS market built on WordPress, WordPress VIP provides a fully managed WordPress cloud platform for unparalleled scale, security, performance, and flexibility, as well as end-to-end guidance and hands-on support. Some of their enterprise clients include Capgemini, Merck, and News Corp. Founded in 2016, Scaleflex's strong technical capabilities and experience in the B2D market have helped build scalable, efficient and secure APIs for large brands with dense catalogs like Michelin, GoCar, Hyundai, Banque Populaire and Nice Matin, among others. Its flexible, technically agnostic, composable architecture and easily interoperable solutions have also been recognized by the MACH Alliance, which few companies can boast. As a fast-growing international company, Scaleflex now has over 70 passionate members from 16 nationalities in 15 locations across Europe, North Africa and APAC, solving DAM challenges for more than 1300 customers worldwide.

C3 AI, the Enterprise AI application software company, announced it has been awarded the Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year in the artificial intelligence and machine learning category for 2021. C3 AI has been recognized for achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, including helping cross-industry customers accelerate the deployment of Enterprise AI applications. "We're proud to recognize C3 AI as our Technology Partner of the Year for AI and Machine Learning, and we look forward to continuing our work together building and creating business value for customers with cloud technologies." "Our team is honored to be selected as a Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year award winner," said Ed Abbo, C3 AI president and chief technology officer. "C3 AI and Google Cloud are fully aligned to unlock customer value by accelerating delivery and operation of innovative industry-specific AI applications."

As companies launch new initiatives, it's crucial to examine emerging affiliate marketing trends in the new year to ensure success for your brand. According to Statista, affiliate marketing spend in the US is projected to reach $8.2 billion in 2022, which is up by $5.4 billion compared to 2017. Retailers turned to ecommerce during the pandemic, therefore expanding possibilities for affiliate marketing as a whole. Even with constant changes in the digital atmosphere, the affiliate model will continue to grow and develop alongside the evolutions of the digital world. To run a successful affiliate program, it's important to stay on top of emerging trends.

If human societies do nothing, in just a few decades, the planet could warm to levels it hasn't reached in at least 34 million years, leading to more melting glaciers and floods than ever before -- as well as the dire effect of urban heat waves. In 2021, in the U.S. alone, there were already 18 extreme climate-related disasters with losses exceeding $1 billion each, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. When looking at the world's natural calamities on a consequence and frequency scale, floods and earthquakes have a more devastating effect on people and property, but they occur less frequently than heat waves, which generally take the form of urban heat islands (UHIs). These are also known as heat pockets, which are found across cities' downtown areas, where temperatures are higher than the peripheries. With urbanized areas warming up fast, many more populations globally are bound to face the deadly consequences of the heat-island effect, highlighting urban public health disparities.

Domino Data Lab is launching the company's first partner program today as the data science and MLOps software developer looks to scale up its work with service and technology partners and provide them with a structured program with more resources and benefits. The new Domino Partner Network will provide structure for what has largely been ad hoc partner processes, according to Domino executives. It will help the company expand and scale its work with partners and provide them with needed training, go-to-market resources and incentives. "Our push to formalize this partner program and to work with a wider range of partners is really being driven by our customers," CEO Nick Elprin said in an interview with CRN. "At a high level, what we're doing is formalizing an approach and a structure for how we work with partners."

With the rush to gain a competitive advantage in the digital era, more and more organizations are adopting AI technologies. According to McKinsey's Global AI Survey, 58% of organizations have now embedded at least one AI capability into their business processes – an 11% increase on the previous year. While more and more companies are utilizing the technology, there are several barriers to AI adoption. These barriers need to be acknowledged and overcome before a business can fully utilize technology and realize business value. Here are the top three AI challenges and how they can be overcome.

The majority of industries have begun their digital transformation journeys. Digital transformation in the construction industry, however, has been slow. Perhaps, this failure to adopt digital technology has been based on a systemic resistance to change? Indeed, this desire to adopt new technology is being hindered by almost all construction organisations overlook the importance of a technology partner in enabling training and up-skilling, according to a new report by Zen Internet. It found that, as is so often the case with traditional industries, culture is a significant barrier to embracing this necessary change. Despite this, it appears that there is a willingness to embrace the digital future in this industry and the report reveals that digital transformation has now laid its foundations firmly within the construction industry, with many organisations already working with new technologies such as AI.

Visual Connections, LLC (VC) has secured an unrestricted, prime award as a SDVOSB, HUBZone Small Business for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Program Support Centers'(PSC), Intelligent Automation/Artificial Intelligence IDIQ (IAAI).This award enables VC and its partners to compete for Requests for Task Order Proposals (RFTOPs) issued via this innovative IAAI contract vehicle providing solutions, services and products. VC assembled a strategic team of partners comprised of "technology partners" and "service partners" to facilitate robust offerings for this contract. A key technology partner for this contract is Deep Labs, Inc. (Deep Labs), a unique persona-based artificial intelligence company yielding intelligent predictive decisions for its clients. Via a VC prime contract, VC and Deep Labs have previously partnered to conceive, develop and implement a successful artificial intelligence pilot for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Program Integrity (CPI) department utilizing deep visioning and learning techniques and tools for CMS's Medicare Part D program, which covers prescriptions for over 39 million beneficiaries. This pilot was designed to discover potentially fraudulent activity before it occurs related to Excluded Providers (EP) to help reduce and minimize the "pay-and-chase path of recovery of funds" and to enhance CMS's ability to proactively identify and investigate potential fraud.