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African architecture helps reduce climate impact
New buildings featuring old designs are sprouting up across Africa, using traditional materials and methods in a bid to build more sustainably. An Accra office building features “vertical fins” to offer natural shade, Dakar's new…
Asylum turned arts precinct scoops top architecture award
Dark rain clouds hover overhead and a brisk wind blows around the old brick buildings clustered on the top of Jacksons Hill on Melbourne's outskirts. The former Female Refractory Ward at the Sunbury Lunatic Asylum once housed 50 women in tiny…
Concéntrico 2026 is underway - an architecture festival for all the senses
Concéntrico 2026 launched in Logroño on a scorching hot summer's day (18 June) – yet the crowds braved the 30-degree-plus temperatures, arriving in droves to stroll through its 22 installations and meet their creators, an…
Gemma 2's Architecture: More Performance from Less Model
Google's new Gemma 2 models are a strong signal for where open-source AI is heading. The 27B parameter model delivers performance competitive with models more than twice its size, and the smaller variants punch well above their weight class. This…
Why a box of office staples may point to the buildings of the future
A handful of office staples does not look like the raw material of tomorrow's engineering revolution. Yet compress them into a dense clump and something remarkable happens: the bundle starts to behave less like a pile of separate objects and more…
As India's Alternative Investment Industry Scales, Basiz Is Building the Infrastructure Behind It
India's alternative investment industry is in the midst of a structural transformation. Assets flowing into Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), private markets, family offices and sophisticated investment vehicles have grown significantly over the…
As AI Drives A New Wave Of Vendor Replacement, Incumbents Need A Better Strategy To Survive
As AI Drives a New Wave Of Vendor Replacement, Incumbents Need A Better Strategy To Survive Artificial intelligence is creating a subtle but important shift in enterprise technology and services markets. Across both software providers and…
Concerns over historic Matlock's 'monstrosity' billboard
A Derbyshire MP has written to the government with 'deep concerns' over a decision to grant permission for a large digital billboard in a historic town on the edge of the Peak District. The advertisement board in Bakewell Road, Matlock, was…
5 Geodesic Dome Homes That Prove Curved Living Is the Future
The dome is no longer just an architectural curiosity. It has emerged as one of the most structurally efficient forms ever designed. Leading design firms now recognize that its natural strength and exceptional volume-to-surface ratio provide a…
What Commercial Real Estate Investors Can Learn From Entrepreneurs
NASHVILLE, TN: A wide angle generic view of the Nashville downtown skyline. (Photo by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Commercial real estate is often associated with financial models, market…
Dialpad Puts Call Insights Inside Gemini Enterprise
Integrated conversation insights. Dialpad data now accessible in Google Workspace apps. Native AI summarization. Gemini Enterprise synthesizes customer conversations for actionable intelligence. Impact for enterprise teams. Enables faster customer…
Umang Singh: The executive who builds what he strategizes
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Umang Singh has spent 24 years at the intersection of technology and transformation. Now, as AI reshapes enterprise strategy, he is making the case that the leaders best equipped to…
How Databricks CustomerLake Disrupts the CDP Market
What is Databricks CustomerLake? An agentic CDP built natively inside the Databricks lakehouse that eliminates the separate customer data platform by bringing identity resolution, audience building and activation into the same governed environment…
Top 5 BI Tools for Data Analytics in 2026: Best Platforms for Faster Insights
Data analytics in 2026 isn't just about visualizing charts—it's about turning data into decisions at the speed of business. With AI-enhanced analytics, real-time dashboards, governed self-service, and seamless cloud + warehouse integrations…
The Platforms: Why The Tech Giants Are Always In The Room
Recent breakthroughs in protein simulation and materials discovery show that IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Nvidia remain central to quantum innovation, making the WisdomTree Quantum Computing Fund (WQTM) a way to gain exposure without picking…
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