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By Steve McCaskill All 650 MPs elected in this year’s general election will be eligible to receive an iPad Air 2 as part of a House of Commons hardware refresh. Mobile devices have been allowed in the House of Commons since 2011 and MPs have been offered iPads since 2012 in a bid to make […]

By Steve McCaskill Seventy libraries and community centers across England will be provided with WiFi and technical support in a bid to get more of the U.K. population online and to learn digital skills. BT WiFi hotspots are to be deployed in 57 libraries and 13 community centers while a further 10 sites, including a […]

By Tom Jowitt The surveillance powers of GCHQ, Britain’s intelligence agency, to hack and access anyone’s computer, phone or other forms of communications, are far greater than first thought. The revelation was made by campaign group Privacy International (PI), which released court papers that detail the amount of surveillance powers given to British spies, and […]

By Matthew Broersma Vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson has agreed to invest $15 million (£10 million) in a U.S. start-up whose technology could double battery capacity for products, including smartphones and electric cars. Sakti3, founded in 2008 by former University of Michigan engineering professor Ann Marie Sastry, produces lithium-ion batteries that use solid-state technology rather than […]

By Steve McCaskill The government-backed Digital Catapult claims the opening of three new innovation centers in Brighton, Yorkshire and the North East and Tees Valley will bring £9m worth of additional investment to each local ‘digital economy.’ The three centers were announced late last year and each focus on a different challenge facing the digital […]

By Michael Moore Google has taken a major step forward in its attempts to conquer the offline retail world with the launch of its first ever U.K. physical store. The search giant has partnered with Currys PC World to open up a special location for the sale and maintenance of its Android products, with the […]

By Tom Jowitt British police have arrested dozens of suspect hackers as part of a “strike week” against cyber-crime. According to the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA), it has this week arrested 57 people in 25 separate operations. Suspect Arrests The suspects are thought to be involved in different types of cyber-crime, including network intrusion […]

By Matthew Broersma The chip equipment manufacturing giant has confirmed it is investigating a ‘recent’ breach of its systems. ASML, the largest manufacturer of microchip manufacturing equipment, has acknowledged its systems were breached in a “recent” attack, but said no “valuable” files appear to have been accessed. “ASML Holding recently discovered unauthorized access to a […]

By Matthew Broersma The ‘climate positive’ data center is powered entirely by renewable energy, including steam generated by burning wood chips. The Swedish mining city of Falun has become home to the first ‘climate positive‘ data center, billed as having a negative carbon impact by virtue of its contribution to Falun‘s innovative municipal energy system. […]

By Michael Moore Many of the U.K.’s small businesses are putting themselves at risk from cyber-attacks due to lax or insufficient online security, research has found. A report from government security initiative Cyber Streetwise discovered that a shocking amount of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) didn’t think they were at risk, despite a number of […]