Innovation

O2 Legal Challenge Could Delay 5G Spectrum Auction

O2 has voiced concerns about the organisation of the UK's upcoming auction of 5G spectrum, creating the prospect of a…

5 years ago

Tesla Applies To Become UK Electricity Provider

Company files with regulator to supply UK premises with electricity, following ventures into batteries for home and industrial power storage

5 years ago

NHS To Test Coronavirus Contact-Tracing App On Isle Of Wight

Contact-tracing tech to be trialled on Isle of Wight from this week, amidst criticism that NHS' 'centralised' approach risks privacy…

5 years ago

Google AI Scheme Targets Banks Overwhelmed By Pandemic

Google Cloud's PPP Lending AI Solution aims to help banks analyse and process loan applications under US government's aid scheme…

5 years ago

IBM Launches Quantum Programming Challenge

Four years after IBM put its first quantum computing resources online, company opens access to those who want to try…

5 years ago

Automatic Labs Pulls Plug On Car-Tracking Service

Car data tracking device maker says it 'does not see a path forward' for its business after Covid-19 lockdown drastically…

5 years ago

Automation: In Focus

Marcos Kauffman is currently the Director at the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) - Coventry University Institute for…

5 years ago

Automation Part 3: A New Age Of Work

In this final part of Silicon UK’s look at automation, we consider what the future holds for all enterprises. What…

5 years ago

Coronavirus: Tesla’s Elon Musk Slams Pandemic Lockdown As ‘Fascist’

Tesla boss Elon Musk overshadows third quarterly profit at electric car maker Tesla, by calling lockdowns 'fascist' and 'not democratic'

5 years ago

Spies Urged To Adopt AI To Counter Augmented Threats

UK's intelligence agencies must use artificial intelligence to repel increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks and disinformation campaigns, finds study

5 years ago

NHS Will Not Use Contact Tracing Tech From Apple And Google

NHSX confirms it plans to carry out coronavirus contact tracing matches on a centralised server, putting it at odds with…

5 years ago

Regulator Approves Just Eat’s £6bn Merger With Takeaway.com

CMA 'satisfied' there are no competition concerns with Just Eat merger, as food delivery apps become vital lifeline during coronavirus…

5 years ago

NHS Says Trust ‘Crucial’ For Virus Contact-Tracing App

NHSX 'prioritising' privacy in development of coronavirus contact-tracing scheme, whose decentralised approach contrasts to that of France and Germany

5 years ago

Apple, Google Bring Forward Virus Tracing Tech Amidst Privacy Row

Apple and Google speed up development of contact tracing API, as France and Germany accuse Apple and Google of holding…

5 years ago

Study: Half Of All Developers Now Use JavaScript

But Google-backed Kotlin is fastest-growing language in percentage terms, while Python and Java continue to add developers at a steady…

5 years ago

Libra Scales Back Cryptocurrency Plans Amidst Furore

Facebook-backed cryptocurrency association to issue digital versions of single currencies, stepping back from controversial synthetic coin scheme

5 years ago

Chinese-Backed Firm Commits To UK Headquarters For Imagination Technologies

Chinsese state-financed Canyon Bridge tells MPs it plans to keep iPhone tech maker headquartered in the UK, amidst row over…

5 years ago

European Coronavirus Tracing App Scheme Gets Governments’ Backing

Contact tracing apps are set to arrive in Europe and elsewhere in the coming weeks, with authorities hoping they could…

5 years ago

Coronavirus: EU Sets Out Guidance For Covid-19 Tracking App

European Commission publishes detailed guidance for EU member states developing their own Coronavirus tracking and warning apps

5 years ago

Coronavirus: Folding@Home Volunteers Merge Home PCs For Fastest Supercomputer

Folding@Home volunteers utilise home PCs to create world's fastest supercomputer to help tackle deadly Coronavirus pandemic

5 years ago

IBM Targets COBOL Skills Shortage Brought On By Pandemic

US states are struggling to find programmers skilled in 60-year-old COBOL programming language as coronavirus puts pressure on ageing government…

5 years ago

Apple, Google Work Together On ‘Private’ Coronavirus Tracing Tech

Tech giants propose anonymous Bluetooth tech to alert users when they have come into contact with someone who has tested…

5 years ago

Tesla Cuts Staff Wages, Furloughs Workforce

All non-essential workers at Tesla have been placed on furlough, and wages cut, amid the production shutdown due to pandemic

5 years ago

Rare Video Of Bletchley Park Location During WW2 Emerges

Video footage of MI6 station Whaddon Hall, attached to the world famous code-breaking centre Bletchley Park, is released to the…

5 years ago

UK Spearheads Quantum Key Distribution Breakthrough

Team headed by University of Glasgow develops technique for generating and detecting entangled photons at wavelength less susceptible to solar…

5 years ago

Satellite Company OneWeb Collapses Amidst Pandemic Fallout

Satellite broadband company OneWeb runs out of cash, with lead investor SoftBank pulling out amidst financial chaos caused by coronavirus…

5 years ago

Coronavirus: Experts Urge Caution Over Zoom Teleconference Security

As popularity of Zoom app spikes due to coronavirus pandemic, security experts urge users to pay attention to privacy and…

5 years ago

Coronavirus: Bill Gates Urges Total Shutdown To Halt Covid-19 Spread

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned over the last ten years about the dangers of a global pandemic. Today he…

5 years ago

Coronavirus: Huawei Launches Flagship P40 Smartphone During Pandemic

Photography-focused P40 smartphone range launched by Chinese tech giant, as it contends with US restrictions, and potentially a chip ban

5 years ago

Former Google Staffer Pleads Guilty To Trade Secret Theft

Former senior executive at Google's self-driving car project, who defected to Uber, pleads guilty to theft of trade secrets

5 years ago