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• June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19

  Ministry of Defence appoints chief scientific adviser

  The first female to hold the role, professor dame Angela McLean will direct the department's core research programme and advise on all science and technology matters

• June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19

  Chef demos Windows Server 2008 migration

  Windows Server 2008 R2 reaches end of support in January 2020. Businesses using older Windows server software have little time to redevelop code

• June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19

  ASEAN CIOs learn to navigate the data economy

  A group of IT leaders in Southeast Asia will converge in Edinburgh this July to delve deeper into issues that have been holding back efforts to become better data-driven organisations

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  Government must address shortcomings to make data strategy work

  A National Audit Office report outlines the challenges that need to be investigated around making more effective use of data in citizen service delivery and government operations

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  West Midlands paramedics test remote ultrasonic sensor scans

  Ultrasound sensor works with a haptic glove worn by a paramedic connected over 5G to a clinician, who provides remote diagnosis

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  CIOs experience stress, verbal and physical abuse during IT failures

  Business continuity involves more than the investment in resilient IT – staff and their families need support too

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  Surveillance camera czar calls for stronger UK code of practice

  Surveillance cameras are for supporting communities, not spying on them, but the UK needs stronger regulation and citizen engagement in this area, says surveillance camera commissioner

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  How APAC CIOs are driving AI projects

  IT leaders at a Computer Weekly roundtable say they are grappling with compute bottlenecks and explainable artificial intelligence even as chatbots and other AI projects are being rolled out in full swing

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  UK citizens call for diversity in AI to be addressed

  Public wants government and tech companies to tackle diversity issues related to the application of artificial intelligence, a study has found

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  Online porn age-verification checks delayed for six months

  Changes to force UK internet users to prove their age to access adult content are postponed for a third time because of failure to notify the European Commission of key policy details

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  Facebook officially unveils cryptocurrency plans

  Facebook has released details about its Libra cryptocurrency, but questions still remain over how, and if, it will work

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  HCL delivers digital services to Cricket Australia

  Cricket governing body chooses Indian IT supplier to expand the boundaries of its customer engagement platforms

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  Tech startups establish deep roots in Copenhagen

  Danish capital offers all the advantages startups need to get off the ground and many are staying there for the long haul

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  How AirAsia streamlined its customer service

  Integrating multiple customer touch points with Salesforce has enabled Asia’s leading low-cost carrier to shorten waiting time and improve customer service

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Lloyds Bank uses community effort to push out DevOps

  The developers and IT operations teams were once separate. Now they are one. The challenge is getting this to scale across the business

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Women in IT trailblazer Maggie Berry gets OBE

  Early pioneer of networking who aimed to get more women into technology is included in Queen's Birthday Honours

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Looming private sector IR35 reforms prompts calls for gig economy-focused tax system overhaul

  The growth of the gig-based economy has exposed weaknesses in the UK tax system – exacerbated by the IR35 reforms – that mean an overhaul is needed, panel claims

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Finland’s Tieto and Norway’s Evry merge to fend off competition from Indian suppliers

  Two of the Nordic region's biggest IT suppliers merge as competition in their home region increases

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Oxford University accepts £150m for artificial intelligence research

  Oxford University has accepted £150m to build a new humanities hub that will include a centre for artificial intelligence ethics research from Stephen Schwarzman, a US private equity boss

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  UK government pushes data-driven agenda

  A smart data report has been published with consultations under way, while an open call for evidence has been launched to help shape the national data plan

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  University graduates to Rubrik backup appliance with Azure cloud

  University of Reading could only back up 20% of its data on an ageing tape library, so it modernised with a Rubrik appliance and Azure cloud storage in a cost-neutral project

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Signify goes after Wi-Fi with range of Li-Fi office lighting

  Although analyst Gartner has urged IT departments to approach Li-Fi with caution, the use of light as an alternative to Wi-Fi is set to gain momentum

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  GDS director general to move on to global promotion role

  Kevin Cunnington will be travelling around the world to promote government services under a newly created unit

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  How Carsales cuts through the noise in incident response

  The Australian firm is using PagerDuty to sieve through a sea of alerts from various alerting systems that notify operations staff of customer and IT issues

• June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19

  Ministry of Justice publishes public cloud security baseline

  Guidelines from the Ministry of Justice aim to avoid potential cloud security issues such as S3 ‘leaky buckets’

• June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19

  Singapore faced fewer cyber threats in 2018

  Despite the fall in the number of common cyber threats last year, Singapore will continue to face advanced persistent threats, CSA warns

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  Post Office asks Court of Appeal for permission to appeal judgment in first Horizon trial

  The Post Office has applied to the Court of Appeal to appeal judgment in Horizon trial

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  Transport for London supports innovation to tackle road congestion

  The London RoadLab programme has selected products using emergent technologies to alleviate problems caused by roadworks

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  Department of Health aims to drive change through tech innovation

  Revamped Accelerated Access Collaborative is intended to “genuinely drive change” in NHS by identifying the best in healthtech, aligning policy and establishing testing mechanisms

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  Airbus works with Microsoft to trial HoloLens in aircraft manufacturing

  Aircraft company Airbus believes mixed reality systems, powered using headsets such as HoloLens, will drive its digital manufacturing strategy

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  UK Armed Forces seeks digital recruitment platform provider

  The UK's Armed Forces has gone to market to procure a new digital recruitment platform, to be implemented by March 2022

• June 16, 2019 16 Jun'19

  5G to drive hybrid cloud adoption in ANZ

  5G networks will move computing to the edge, driving adoption of hybrid cloud and hyper-converged infrastructure, says Nutanix’s ANZ chief

• June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

  How computer vision powered by Nvidia helped Winnow tackle food waste

  Winnow has developed a biologically inspired machine learning algorithm to identify what foods are being thrown away

• June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

  Government reviews regulation to enable tech innovation

  The government reforms are aimed at ensuring that regulations keep up with technological change

• June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

  How digital transformation underpins Three’s 5G ambitions

  At Three, the smallest of the UK’s four mobile network operators, a transformative attitude to underlying IT is helping the firm mount a serious challenge to its rivals when it comes to 5G roll-out

• June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

  IT outsourcing is increasing, but not as we know it

  IT outsourcing is growing in the UK, as organisations spend more as part of their digital transformations

• June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

  Innovation drives Nominet to cyber security

  Embracing an innovation strategy for a mature organisation led domain name registry Nominet to found a cyber security business based on its core expertise, its CEO tells London Tech Week

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  Facebook London hiring spree focuses on tackling online harms

  Facebook is hiring for 500 tech jobs in the capital in the next six months, with a particular focus on seeking out and clamping down on malicious content and fake accounts, and curbing other harmful behaviour on its platforms

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  Budgets for customer experience projects grow, but more are stalling

  Organisations are spending on advanced analytics to improve customer experience

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  Collaboration is key to digital success in public safety

  Multi-agency engagement has a significant potential to boost the digital delivery of citizen safety services, says report

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  UK tech visa application numbers rise for the fifth year in a row, Tech Nation confirms

  Data from visa endorsement body Tech Nation reveals 45% year on year jump in tech visa applications, with India and the US emerging as the two major sources of candidates

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  Digital chief at Department for Work and Pensions gets extension

  Acting chief digital information officer Simon McKinnon will stay in the role until 2020, since a successor for Mayank Prakash has yet to be found

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  How IT helps the National Theatre to stage productions

  It may seem like it’s all last-minute, but theatre production is a process and IT can make day-to-day operations go smoothly

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  DCMS adds cash to 5G testbed fund and moves to ease planning laws

  The government is to invest £40m in new projects under its 5G Testbeds and Trials scheme, and will explore new ways to liberalise planning laws to support quicker 5G deployment

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  NHSX chief replaces senior digital clinician at NHS Digital

  Matthew Gould takes over board seat from chief clinical information officer Simon Eccles

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  Gartner: Blockchain lacks functionality needed by enterprise

  Gartner has found there is generally a lack of understanding of how blockchain can be used in the enterprise

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  From oil crash to tech startup boom in Norway

  For countries highly dependent on oil, the global price crash had huge potential ramifications – one of which, in Norway, was the development of a thriving technology sector

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  Government’s national Innovation Strategy launches

  The long-awaited Innovation Strategy document includes evolving use of data, eradicating legacy and seconding senior tech staff to the private sector

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  Austrian Supreme Court green-lights GDPR case against Facebook

  A potential landmark case against Facebook for violating General Data Protection Regulation rights has been given the go-ahead by the Austrian Supreme Court

• June 11, 2019 11 Jun'19

  In a cyber data breach, preparation is key

  The importance of preparation was strongly emphasised at a breach response workshop hosted by DAC Beachcroft as part of London Tech Week