Finnair’s data chief on ML, strategy and selecting suppliers
Finnair has been operating for close to a century, but it was only two years ago that the airline created a head of data role, reporting in to the …
Europe making slow progress on cloud security, say analysts
European companies are lagging behind their rivals in North America and Asia Pacific when it comes to cloud security, new research suggests. Analys…
SAP chief executive Bill McDermott steps down
Bill McDermott has stepped down as chief executive of SAP following a 17-year stint at the enterprise software giant. The industry veteran, who cho…
UK pledges £13m to AI and data science conversion courses
The government has unveiled plans to invest £13m in postgraduate conversion courses in data science and artificial intelligence. The initiative wil…
Tech’s missing a trick by not designing for disability
When Domino’s was sued earlier in the year for having a website that wasn’t accessible for the blind, the pizza chain responded by taking the issue…
Former MI6 chief issues warning over Europe’s dependence on foreign tech
Europe’s failure to compete with the United States and China on technology is weakening its position in the world, according to the former he…
Each DNS attack now costs finance companies an average of £1.1m
The average cost of a DNS attack in the financial services industry has risen by 40 per cent over the last year to $1.3m (£1.1m), according to new …
Apple takes aim at Facebook and Google with new iOS privacy features
The latest iteration of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 13, has had a rocky start regarding security. In the weeks following the platfor…
Revealed: IBM’s £4m deal to build prototype AI software platform for UK military
The British government has agreed to pay IBM nearly £4m to develop a prototype military software platform powered by artificial intelligence. Accor…
NCSC records “significant rise” in female applicants for security courses
The number of girls applying to take part in the National Cyber Security Centre’s summer courses has increased by nearly 50 per cent in the l…
A five-step guide to managing cross-platform databases
On 29 October 1969, a team of American university researchers sent a message containing the letters “LO” across a network spanning just…
Which emerging technologies are creating the biggest buzz online?
GlobalData lists the top five terms tweeted on disruptive technology trends in the third quarter of 2019, based on data from its Influencer Platfor…
“We need to fundamentally shift how we build tech”: read Deutsche Bank memo on £12bn IT plan
German investment giant Deutsche Bank has unveiled plans to create an innovation division as part of a £12bn investment in new technology. In an in…
The biggest govtech deals of the week (7/10/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis fir…
How Amazon’s backing could help Rivian outperform Tesla
US automaker Rivian could eventually outperform Tesla as a manufacturer of electric vehicles after Amazon placed an order for 100,000 electric vans…
Priti Patel’s letter to Facebook proves we need to rethink digital governance
This week, the US, UK and Australian governments have written an open letter to Facebook urging the company to create a backdoor into its new messa…
GSK and Tinder executives on what the next decade of tech will look like
Predicting anything in technology is a dangerous game; hindsight may make it seem obvious that people would be ride-sharing in Ubers, staying in a …
UK-US attack on WhatsApp encryption may have unsettling consequences
The home secretary, Priti Patel, has joined forces with her American and Australian counterparts to call on Mark Zuckerberg to drop end-to-end encr…
New HP CEO set to slash at least 7,000 jobs
HP has unveiled plans to cut between seven and nine thousand jobs as part of a restructure set to cost the PC maker $1bn. The company intends to cu…
European judges can now force Facebook to remove content around the world
The European Union’s most powerful court has ruled that judges in Europe have the right to force Facebook to identify and remove illegal cont…
What Google’s quantum breakthrough means for the future of computing
Last week a draft research paper that appeared briefly online but was then promptly withdrawn brought news that Google had achieved quantum suprema…
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