Cyber security fail lets bots hijack EU referendum petition
The petition to force parliament to debate a second EU referendum, which has smashed previous records for number of signatures, has been hijacked b…
Call on government to halt Investigatory Powers Bill in wake of Brexit “political crisis”
The controversial Investigatory Powers Bill is due for its second reading in the House of Lords today but campaigners have urged for this to be hal…
This week at NS Tech: the industry rolls up its sleeves post-Brexit…
Every week we scour the headlines to find a few key stories you need to know about in enterprise tech, some upcoming trends and events, and even so…
‘What is the EU?’ is in top 5 most searched #EURef terms TODAY
Today’s most terrifying news has just landed from Google Trends UK search data. "What is the EU?" is the second top UK question on …
The UK’s big exit: what does Brexit mean for tech?
We heard this week about the UK and Europe’s unicorn companies valued at $1 billion or more, with several since 2000 achieving that all-impor…
“A personal plea from Europe’s polar bears”
Amanda Windle is a feminist digital researcher heading up the Digital Laboratory at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts Lon…
Where are startups looking for staff… The men’s toilets?
Yes, like everyone else, I am a bit sick of hearing about the lack of diversity in tech. But it’s national Women in Engineering Day, don̵…
“Corporates must help stop us creating an Internet of Useless Things”
Raph Crouan is the founder and MD at London’s Startupbootcamp IoT, part of the global network of industry-focused startup accelerators with p…
“At John Lewis, it’s not OK to say ‘we’ve always worked like that’”
Paul Coby is IT Director at John Lewis The old adage of ‘innovate or expire’ has never been truer than on today’s high street and the retailer stam…
#LDNTechWeek: Lloyds is spending £1bn just to help it understand its customers
It’s a tired old adage that the customer is always right. But Lloyds bank is so convinced that its increasingly digital customers will use its prod…
Only 30 government staff work on UK’s corporate data breaches – and 10 other things we learned from the TalkTalk case
The Culture Media and Sport Committee (CMSC) released a pretty whopping report yesterday prompted by the massive TalkTalk data breach. As it points…
#LDNTechWeek: Fashtech – the ultimate solution looking for a problem
Yesterday, London Tech Week opened with a panel on fashtech, that’s fashion technology to the uninitiated, although that might not make the c…
Twitter buys Magic Ponyfor $150m (yes, seriously) and it’s kind of AI big deal
In a boon for UK startups on the opening day of London Tech Week, it’s been announced that Twitter is buying local machine learning outfit Ma…
#LDNTechWeek: What on earth has F1 got to do with making toothpaste? McLaren explains
London Tech Week kicked off this morning, despite the rain, with a short introduction from Ed Vaizey MP, followed by a panel on fashion technology,…
This week at NS Tech: #LDNTechWeek, Brexit and more…
Every week we scour the headlines to find a few key stories you need to know about in enterprise tech, some upcoming trends and events, and even so…
Q&A: NHS England’s new drive for open data standards in healthcare
Speaking this week at the NHS Confederation’s annual conference, Stephen Dorrell, the organisation’s chair, said: “To improve the…
So your next customer is going to be a dog, apparently
Yep, pets are the next consumers, that’s according to PhD researcher Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, who’s studying a new area of animal-comput…
“Blockchain for good – a beginner’s guide”
Julio Alejandro is founder and CEO of Humanitarian Blockchain Blockchain is a ‘magical notebook’. Its mechanism hardly destructible. Everything wri…
10 big excuses that show the UK’s digital transformation ain’t gonna happen
Most companies, big and small, are aware that their continued use of Outlook 2007 is starting to get a bit embarrassing and their database is……
Samsung buys Joyent in attempt to capture the cloud
It’s no secret that the cloud is happening, with an estimated global spend of $16.5bn last year, 32 per cent growth on 2014. Now is the time …
Eric Schmidt thinks getting sued is actually part of Uber’s business strategy
A quick Google for ‘Uber lawsuit’ reveals just how many pages and pages have been written about the company’s apparent fight for …
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