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AWS has come forward with a new developer offering, of quantum proportions. Amazon Braket is said to help developers (and researchers) get started with quantum computing with tools, simulators and ...

Couchbase is that company we know because its name start with Couch, which in this context is used as an acronym for Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware. We also know Couchbase as the creator ...

This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andy Piper, VP of Engineering at Diffblue -- a company known for its technology which automatically generates tests ...

Historian Niall Ferguson’s article about TikTok claims the app plays a pivotal role in China’s imperial ambitions, an argument rendered instantly moot by his declaration that he, like us, doesn’t ...

Jabra doesn’t call its Evolve2 85 product a set of headphones, the company calls it a Unified Communications headset. So is there more here than meets the eye? Sorry, ear. We tested the Jabra ...

The fiasco with the calculations for A-Level result marks has projected the unfairness of algorithms into the spotlight. In modern society, such algorithms act as black boxes that make fundamental ...

We love Xbox One, but there’s one problem… it’s just too big of a box to think about taking away in your carry-on flight bag when you go away for a weekend or a little longer. Mobile gaming is ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Christopher Goes in his roles as lead developer of IBC  at Interchain GmbH.  Interchain GmbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...

Everyone is talking about observability, it’s the new ‘must have’ in the abstract world of cloud. New Relic actually called itself an observability platform company. The organisation is now working ...

Enterprise organisations used to tell us that they had an ‘IT stack’. This term was meant to express the existence of a software estate sat on a variety of hardware resources with a selection of ...

Drew Griffiths is Cohesion CEO at Acquia, a company for its cloud based hosting, support and services for Drupal (an open source content management framework). Citing the obvious concerns that have ...

Emanating from the affluent beachfront neighborhood of Herzliya in Tel Aviv, Israel… we find news of the IoT technology company Essence Group’s work to champion the use of open standards. ...

In this guest post, Dean Gardner, chief technologist for cloud at IT infrastructure provider Softcat, shares his observations on how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the course of cloud adoption ...

If tech. companies want to cast off the public perception that they are part of the previous economy’s problems, they could start offering genuinely radical solutions to the pressing problems now ...

The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have all spoken to US Congress in a joint video call to face some stern questions, one of which being: “Do you believe that the Chinese government ...

The following post is sponsored by Amazon Web Services The Covid-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on organisations and individuals, with the pressure particularly intense on healthcare ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Jessica Murphy, co-founder of apparel and footwear retail personalisation platform True Fit, discusses how technology can help bridge the gap between ...

If the experts are to be believed, quantum computers will radically change problem solving. IBM recently held  an event to explore the skills gap that exists between the education system and ...

Open source is driving wearables. The Open Wearables Initiative (OWEAR) is an industry collaboration designed to promote the effective use of high-quality sensor-generated measures of health in ...

Storage can often be a question of ‘snorage’ i.e. it’s not the sexiest slice of the technology layer. Some of the developers inside Nutanix might agree with this twist, but some would probably be ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Brad Robertson of Polyient Games.  Roberton launched Polyient Games, a spinoff of Polyient Labs, his early-stage ...

July has been a busy month for us, a month that is traditionally dotted with enterprise tech events that have since been moved online amid the Covid-19 pandemic. On the sidelines of ...

Lancashire’s Cronkshaw Fold Farm is pimping out its portfolio of goats for video-conference appearances to fund its investment in renewable technology. That’s right, at just a fiver a pop, remote ...

This is a guest blogpost by Rich Pugh, co-founder and chief data scientist, Mango Solutions The things we do not know about Covid-19 seem almost endless. There are no clear answers yet to some of ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Meera Rao in her capacity as senior director of product management for DevOps Solutions at Synopsys - the company is known ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Tad Heppner in his capacity as threat researcher at SophosLabs -- a group that describes itself as a global network of ...

Uncertainty is the new certainty. As lockdowns ease across Europe, IT leaders are surveying the wreckage of their carefully planned pre-pandemic strategies. Nothing is what it was – according to ...

Hands up anyone who expected not just to spend 2020 at home, but to spend much of it on video too. Many of us will have shunned the Lidless Eye of the PC camera before but are now unable to resist ...

The managing director of a Premier League side almost cost their club £1m when their email address was hacked during a transfer negotiation – but who could it be? Our first guess was Richard Arnold ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Steve Bryen in his role as senior developer advocate for UK and Ireland at Amazon Web Services. Among the several key ...

The following post is sponsored by Amazon Web Services As the impact of Covid-19 percolates around the world, students and teachers facing disrupted school semesters are forced to learn and teach ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Kelly Goetsch in his capacity as president of the MACH Alliance - a group that has come together to promote open tech ...

This is a guest blogpost by James Loft, COO, Rainbird. If 2020 has been anything so far, ‘unpredictable’ is as good a descriptor as any. The financial services sector has suffered disrupted supply ...

Among the arguably higher profile Virtual Private Network (VPN) brands out there this decade (so far) is NordVPN. What not every casual user might now is, this is a technology now built on open ...

This is a guest blogpost by Jason Kingdon, Chairman & CEO of Blue Prism And it's raining RPA [Robotic Process Automation]… IBM's announcement that they are acquiring a Brazilian Robotic Process ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

The cloud has many resources, obviously. Among the most widely discussed elements of cloud usage as of 2020 is the more widespread use, deployment, implementation, integration to and adoption of ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

As more development teams than ever work remotely, they know better than most just how much the rise of consumer-grade collaboration tools [Zoom, Slack, WhatsApp etc.] is helping to build up ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

“You’ve got to wear a face nappy if you want to come in here,” chunters a half-cut Tim Martin as Matt Hancock enters the Lord Moon of the Mall. “Only joking,” he slurs. “Who am I to tell the health ...

There is no double that business leaders will factor in working from home in the calculations they are doing to lower costs as part of their on-going post pandemic recovery plans. The latest IT ...

Data analytics seems to have emerged as a cure-all for the current Conservative government. Indeed, it is being positioned as a critical element in the wider revolution of Whitehall that Dominic ...

Every company is a software company. This central truism pervades throughout every layer of business and, specifically, throughout every layer of the technology industry itself. Even ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

Most of those leaving education at age 18 or 21 this year do not have the technical and practical skills they need to find work at this time of pandemic recession.  To redress this, Government must ...