MPs have asked the government to clarify how the newly created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will help to increase diversity and inclusion in UK STEM.   The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (STC) first launched its inquiry in November 2021 to assess the reasons behind, and solutions for, the lack […]

What is vishing (voice or VoIP phishing)? Vishing (voice or VoIP phishing) is a type of cyber attack that uses voice and telephony technologies to trick targeted individuals into revealing sensitive data to unauthorized entities. The data might include personal information, such as a Social Security number or details about a financial account, or it […]

What is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC)? RISC (reduced instruction set computer) is a microprocessor that is designed to perform a smaller number of computer instruction types, so it can operate at a higher speed, performing more millions of instructions per second, or MIPS. Since each instruction type that a computer performs requires additional […]

The National Crime Agency has infiltrated a cyber crime marketplace by setting up websites pretending to offer the tools needed to mount distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The sting was part of an international law enforcement response targeting criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructures worldwide, known as Operation PowerOff. Several thousand people have accessed these websites, […]

Digital transactions worth about £259bn were made in the UK last year, with over a third (35%) of online purchases completed using digital wallets. The Worldpay from FIS global payments report 2023 also revealed that 10% of total point of sale (POS) transactions in the UK were made using the digital wallets. Digital wallets […]

Accenture is cutting jobs thousands of jobs over the next 18 months and reducing office space as the IT services bellwether targets cost reductions. The IT services giant announced 19,000 job losses as the firm reported sales worth $15.8bn and a profit of $1.9bn in its second financial quarter. Accenture CEO, Julie Sweet, said […]

Hard disk drive (HDD) capacity and price are not the only ways to determine the choice of drive deployed. Other specifications such as connection protocol, energy efficiency and even how drives write data blocks to platters should be taken into account.   This article is the second of two that provide an overview of […]

UK technology scaleups have generated $583bn in value since 2014, and could further quadruple in value by 2032 under the right conditions, according to final Tech Nation report. It said that the value since 2014 was achieved through exits of some form – whether an acquisition, special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) or public listing […]

Innovative use of technology is needed not only to improve climate resilience and disaster recovery, but to reduce manufacturing waste and emissions, deliver renewable energy, build and maintain efficient infrastructure, and protect and support humans and their environment across the globe. Tech leaders are aware of multiple actions that can be introduced to improve […]

“I got this recruitment letter from a high-tech company that said, ‘We’re particularly interested in you as a female thought leader’,” Radia Perlman, fellow for Dell Technologies and inventor of Spanning Tree Protocol, told the 2023 Everywoman in Tech Forum. “I wasn’t interested in the job, so I didn’t reply,” she said. “But my […]