The British Standards Institution (BSI) has selected six startups to join its sustainability-focused startup accelerator, which is being launched in partnership with the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL). The BSI is the UK’s national standards body, producing technical standards and certification processes for a wide range of products and services, while the CISL […]
Liberty Global has agreed a €1.5bn outsourcing contract which will see Infosys take over the operation and development of its core entertainment and connectivity software platform for the next five years. This adds to an existing three-year relationship with Infosys covering core operational IT services. The deal will also mean Infosys can license the […]
With 5G a catalyst for driving smartphone upgrades over the past year, the latest smartphone tracker from Assurant has found that the market showed only small increases in value during the second quarter of 2023. Assurant’s latest quarterly Mobile trade-in and upgrade industry trends report outlines the top smartphones turned in during the quarter, […]
A NatWest customer has praised a whistleblower for informing him that his personal data had been breached, describing the bank’s handling of the issue as “disgusting”. In the same way another former customer who contacted Computer Weekly earlier, the second NatWest customer to make contact with Computer Weekly was also offered £200 compensation by […]
As hundreds of thousands of people sit back, relax and prepare for take-off this summer, many will be enabling their iPhone’s airplane mode setting, whereby their device’s radio frequency (RF) transmission technology is switched off, severing their connection to their mobile network for the duration of the flight. Also known as flight mode or […]
Amid the annual tradition of A-level results day, the first students to sit a new Extended Project Qualification for young people aged 14 and up looking to start a career in cyber security have also been receiving their grades, with promising results. The first intake to the course comprised a total of 132 students […]
Labour MP Darren Jones has asked the minister in charge of the courts to look into the appropriateness of the rule on the use of computer evidence in court, in light of miscarriages of justice in the Post Office IT scandal. He wrote to Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk urging him to consider the issue personally […]
The number of women in the UK’s technology sector declined between the first and second quarters of the year, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Stats from the ONS suggest that the number of women in the industry has seen a decline of 3,000 between January and March of 2023, […]
There is little surprise that Gartner’s latest research on emerging technology shows that generative AI is reaching a peak in hype. “The popularity of many new AI techniques will have a profound impact on business and society,” said Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished vice-president analyst at Gartner. “The massive pretraining and scale of AI foundation models, […]
Accenture has created an artificial intelligence (AI) lab in Brussels to develop services across Europe focused on the health, public sector and NATO as part of a $3bn AI investment announced by Accenture in June. The AI lab and innovation studio will test and evaluate potential AI and generative AI-based services for the European public sector, […]