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A smart chastity cage that can only be controlled via its app was vulnerable to hackers putting almost 40,000 penises on lockdown, research has revealed. Sex toy manufacturer Qiui muses on its ...

At the end of September, 15,841 cases of coronavirus, over an eight day period, were lost due to an IT glitch. The bug meant that there were long delays in contact tracing staff reaching people who ...

In this edition of Tech on APAC, we’ll cover the top news headlines in the region for the month of September, starting with a notable win by Microsoft in Australia’s cloud market. In mid-September, ...

We’re conscientious souls here in the Inspect-A-Gadget lab i.e. we like to back-up.  With a couple of aging PCs that have been put through their paces (and ejected from a couple of airport scanner ...

This is part one of a two-part contributed piece for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider with part two linked here. This analysis of the role of open source in APIs is written by Postman CEO ...

This is part two of a two-part contributed piece for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider with part one linked here. This analysis of the role of open source in APIs is written by Postman CEO ...

Nutanix is the cloud software company with a pedigree in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions that wants to ‘make computing invisible anywhere’ - as the t-shirt slogans might read. The company ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

After the best part of two decades of gradual change in the world of the networking infrastructure, WiFi and mobile notwithstanding, the past few years have seen more upheaval than at any time ...

The trouble with smartphones - apart from the fact that some people drop them and break the screen, lose them in taxi cabs or generally misplace them throughout day-to-day life - is that they’re ...

Automation is everywhere.  You can almost see it on the technology industry’s next batch of branded conference t-shirts… if, of course, we ever get to a point where we can start to re-engage at the ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

A report has exposed Amazon’s robotic workforce for increasing the warehouse injury rate of its human peers. The Center for Investigative Reporting says the data it obtained lays bare “a mounting ...

With the start of the fourth quarter IT leaders are likely to be scratching their heads, to figure out where best to spend whatever IT budget has been allocated for next year. No one could have ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

In this guest post, Spencer Lamb, vice president of Harlow-based colocation provider Kao Data, discusses how HPC datacentres are aiding the fight against Covid-19 All science is data-driven: ...

Here inside the (socially distanced) Inspect-a-Gadget test lab, we know Jabra for its high-usability form factor earphones and earbuds. But now, in 2020, we are indeed socially distanced, so Jabra ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bonthrone, Chief Executive, Esri UK. The UK’s housing crisis has reached a crunch point over recent years - and it’s now estimated that a massive 345,000 new ...

This is a guest blogpost by Gaurav Dhillon, CEO, SnapLogic. Low-code technologies are not new. They’ve been part of IT’s application development kit for decades. But in recent years the adoption of ...

The front-end to the furlough programme should therefore package and link to all other current and proposed education, training and support programmes in ways that make sense to the target ...

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bernard, Vice President, Global Digital Solutions, EMEA, Iron Mountain. COVID-19 has turned businesses and economies upside down, changing the world irrevocably. ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

This is a guest post by Sunil Chavan, vice-president for FlashBlade at Pure Storage Asia-Pacific & Japan In evolutionary theory, the red queen hypothesis suggests that species must constantly ...

I was at an event in London at the beginning of the year – in the days when we were allowed to do that kind of thing – a platform migration event as it happens. One of the key takeaways from that ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

Banks and employers cannot afford to trust the credentials (digital or otherwise) issued by Government or mandated by regulators (e.g. Passports, Driving Licenses or Utility Bills) until the issues ...

At the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, some retailers had to deal with gaps in their supply chain as customers stockpiled on essential goods. For others, the transition to a remote workforce was ...

Applications used to just be applications. Now we have rapidly developed applications, cloud-native applications, composable highly componentised applications with synaptic connections to a host of ...

A crack squad of Openreach engineers dispatched to investigate a Welsh village’s long-running broadband mystery has managed to pinpoint the unwitting culprits. “One morning during lockdown, we ...

The jury is out on this one. In the world of cloud, does DPaaS stand for Data Platform (as a Service), Development Platform or Data Protection? At the time of writing, most of the industry ...

So, for once on this blog I thought I’d leave the “talking” to someone else or, more to the point, someone “elses”. My old mates at Netevents have soldiered on through this increasingly bizarre, ...

The coronavirus pandemic is the latest crisis to impact global supply chains. After the banking crisis of 2008, banks put in place stress testing to assess how resilient they were to future banking ...

Earlier in the year, in this space I talked about SASE – Secure Access Service Edge – pronounced “sassy” as being one of the most relevant new Gartner definitions to explore and understand. And I ...

Now entering its 11th year, the FDM everywoman in technology awards 2021 is open for nominations. The annual event aims to shine a light on women making a contribution to the technology industry, ...

For many years, the UK IT community pined for a government that wants to put technology at the heart of the country’s future; one that understands the importance of bringing digital and policy ...

There’s more work to do in developing markets in ASEAN to achieve higher levels of cloud adoption, say industry leaders in the region. In Cambodia, for example, most organisations, except for those ...

The UK Space Agency has chosen seven firms to award with funding in the interest of tracking all the crap we’ve left in the sky. You might be reading this on the back of watching Climate Change – ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

In case you’d missed it due to that cave you’re living in, we’re driving towards the post-Covid era of ‘new normal’ where the old way of life and the traditional way of things no longer happens the ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

GUEST POST: In this contributed blog post, Claudia Harris, CEO of Makers Software Bootcamp, declares a call to action for the UK tech sector to kickstart National Coding Week, highlighting how ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

The reality of our planet living through a pandemic has seen office culture successfully adapt to home working, but as businesses start building towards their employees’ safe return, one impatient ...

Recent Computer Weekly articles and posts on LinkedIn, looking at people’s first computer experience, shine a light on how young people used to use computers. They were programmed. Yes the ...

Put yourself back somewhere in between punch cards (pre-dating the 1970s and earlier) and onward to the proliferation of the (8-inch) floppy-disk and subsequently the 3 1⁄2-inch floppy disks that ...

Most IT vendors have product launches, software distributions, beta-stage releases, general availability stages or perhaps release candidates. Cloud-native NoSQL Apache Cassandra data platform ...