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Computer peripherals and printers
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June 05, 2025
05
Jun'25
SXSW: An immersive experience is the future of AI
OpenAI’s recent acquisition heralds a new direction for generative AI, away from the screen-based user experience
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May 20, 2025
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May'25
Ireland sets out chip plan
Ireland has a long history of attracting high-tech firms. Building on the EU Chip Act, it now aims to be a leader in semiconductors
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April 14, 2025
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Apr'25
Expect a tariff on semiconductors within two months, says US commerce secretary
The Trump administration has separated out semiconductors in a bid to bring back manufacturing to the US
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April 02, 2025
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Apr'25
Tech sector still failing to rid supply chains of forced labour
KnowTheChain’s latest benchmark analysis of the IT sector’s efforts to address forced labour in supply chains shows there has been very little improvement in their due diligence practices over the last half decade
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March 25, 2025
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Mar'25
Interview: The role of IT innovation at Royal Ballet and Opera
We speak to the Royal Ballet and Opera’s head of IT delivery, Keith Nolan, about how IT lowers costs and helps power stage innovations for world-class performances
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February 18, 2025
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Feb'25
DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments
The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy artificial intelligence on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story
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February 13, 2025
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Feb'25
EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins
Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line?
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November 13, 2024
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Nov'24
Red Hat acquires tech to lower the cost of machine learning
The acquisition of Neural Magic by Red Hat is being positioned as a way to democratise machine learning and reduce the need for GPUs
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October 31, 2024
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Oct'24
Meta no longer prolonging the life of datacentre servers
During the earnings call for the company’s latest quarterly results, CFO Susan Li said Meta would be investing in GPU servers
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October 04, 2024
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Oct'24
Cups Linux printing bugs open door to DDoS attacks, says Akamai
The Cups Linux printing vulnerabilities disclosed at the end of September would seem to have a nasty sting in their tail, according to researchers at Akamai
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October 02, 2024
02
Oct'24
Post Office spending £80,000+ a week on engineers who can’t work, as IT project burns cash
Revelation is latest evidence of the Post Office’s struggles to replace Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon software used in branches
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September 27, 2024
27
Sep'24
Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm
Security pros need to get in front of a series of vulnerabilities affecting the Cups Linux printing service after an apparently botched disclosure process saw technical details published in advance of a patch
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September 11, 2024
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Sep'24
Under-pressure Post Office botches hardware procurement in project to replace error-prone system
Pressured decision-making caused mistakes in the Post Office project to replace the system at the heart of national scandal
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July 08, 2024
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Jul'24
Synnovis attack highlights degraded, outdated state of NHS IT
More cyber attacks against the health service are likely, and will succeed if something isn’t done to address the increasingly elderly NHS IT estate, experts are warning
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May 10, 2024
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May'24
UK hails first test of quantum aircraft navigation
The government’s £2.5bn quantum strategy receives a boost with test of quantum technology that gets around GPS jamming
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April 12, 2024
12
Apr'24
Executive interview: Balancing AI with human creativity
We speak to the chief product officer at Getty Images and iStock about the role generative AI can play in the image-making process.
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October 26, 2023
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Oct'23
Facebook pins future on Quest 3 and AI development
Parent company Meta has focused on establishing Twitter rival Threads and its new augmented reality headset Quest 3
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October 11, 2023
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Oct'23
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust uses RealWear headsets for training
NHS trauma and orthopaedic department deploys head-mounted cameras to livestream surgeon’s view footage of operations to classroom
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September 14, 2023
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Sep'23
Bristol Uni to host one of Europe’s most power supercomputer clusters
A high-performance computer system being built at the University of Bristol will run thousands of GPUs to support research in artificial intelligence and scientific discovery
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August 16, 2023
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Aug'23
ITAM influence on cyber risk becoming a factor in credit ratings
Credit agency S&P Global Ratings warns that organisations that pay inadequate attention to IT asset management as a factor in their cyber risk management processes may find their creditworthiness takes a dive
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August 11, 2023
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Aug'23
Biden administration bans investment in Chinese high tech
Executive Order prohibits investment firms from supporting Chinese firms specialising in AI, quantum and advanced semiconductors
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July 25, 2023
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Jul'23
Small satellite testing gets funding boost
A new facility has been established as part of the government’s £200m funding for Earth Observation
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July 06, 2023
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Jul'23
Biometrics watchdog calls for public space surveillance review
The biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner is calling for a review of public space surveillance to gain a clearer picture about the proliferation of Chinese surveillance technology across the public sector, but warns against applying double...
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June 06, 2023
06
Jun'23
Apple's $3,500 headset offers VR at a premium
Apple devices have always commanded a premium, but will consumers and business splash out $3,499 on its new Vision Pro headset?
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April 17, 2023
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Apr'23
Restaurants hit by IT problems after BlackCat attack on supplier NCR
Ransomware attack on systems of payments giant causing service outages for restaurants around the world
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February 01, 2023
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Feb'23
Innovative Technology deploys age estimation tech in shops and pubs
A company involved in Home Office-led trials of biometric age estimation technologies has begun rolling out its hardware to UK shops and pubs so they can use its facial recognition algorithm to assure customers’ ages
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November 03, 2022
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Nov'22
Russia risks shortage of PCs and software
Russian consumers and businesses could face a shortage of IT equipment including PCs and software
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September 29, 2022
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Sep'22
KPMG: IT chiefs vote for innovation, but are they forgetting tech debt?
New study from KPMG shows businesses are keen to adopt new technologies to drive improvements to customer experience
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August 12, 2022
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Aug'22
Department of Health investigates bias in medical devices and algorithms
The government has launched a review to look at the problem of discrimination in medical devices and decision-making software
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May 27, 2022
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May'22
NUS students learn to handle agitated patients through VR
Medical and nursing students at the National University of Singapore’s medical school will soon don virtual reality headsets to learn how to handle agitated patients
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May 05, 2022
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May'22
Prepare for smart robot revolution
While industrial robots are well established, smart robots are being deployed across retail and logistics – but much of the tech is still nascent
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March 17, 2022
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Mar'22
Accenture: Trust and opportunities in the metaverse
The metaverse is the wild west of the internet, but pioneering businesses are laying the foundations for a new era of virtual reality
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March 02, 2022
02
Mar'22
Raspberry Pi at 10: Cheaper than chips
We speak to the founder of Raspberry Pi about the power of a low-cost device and its appeal as an educational tool and for space-age projects
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February 21, 2022
21
Feb'22
RealWear enables remote nuclear plant inspection
Augmented reality headsets from RealWear have been deployed by TÜV SÜD for certifying technical systems during the pandemic
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February 11, 2022
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Feb'22
How the European Commission is responding to chip crisis
The global supply of semiconductors is still constrained, and this is having a direct impact on European manufacturers
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January 27, 2022
27
Jan'22
Ocado showcases 3D printing innovation
Having delivered its first orders 20 years ago, Ocado is now reinventing the business process for online grocery delivery
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January 11, 2022
11
Jan'22
IT departments struggling to secure printer endpoints
Printers are at risk of attack, just as any other endpoint device, but many IT leaders are struggling to secure their print infrastructure
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November 30, 2021
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Nov'21
HP patches bugs in over 150 printer models
More than 150 HP multifunction printers are at risk of compromise through a series of newly disclosed vulnerabilities, one of them wormable
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November 02, 2021
02
Nov'21
Electronic waste excluded from COP26 agenda
Data sanitation industry group calls on UK government to add electronic waste to the climate summit’s agenda
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October 29, 2021
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Oct'21
Facebook rebrands to Meta amid continuing controversies
Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta to support its work on the next generation of “social technologies”, but concerns around trust and privacy persist
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October 26, 2021
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Oct'21
COP26: Is the tech sector ready to rise to climate challenge?
There is growing recognition that the tech sector produces mountains of e-waste and consumes significant amounts of energy and natural resources
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September 17, 2021
17
Sep'21
Aftershock eyes corporate PC market
Singapore-based custom PC supplier Aftershock has set up a corporate sales team and is looking to offer a desktop as a service for business customers
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September 13, 2021
13
Sep'21
The digital road ahead: National Highways puts technology in the driving seat
We speak to National Highways about its multi-year plan to tech-enable the management and operations of our motorways
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September 07, 2021
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Sep'21
Procuring law enforcement tech needs greater scrutiny
Tech firms are playing a high-stakes game to drive adoption of artificial intelligence and surveillance technology in law enforcement
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September 06, 2021
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Sep'21
Room for improvement in UK right to repair laws
The UK government introduced right to repair legislation earlier in 2021 to combat the growing issue of electronic waste, but data sanitisation firm Blancco says that while it’s a step in the right direction, there is definitely scope for improvement
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August 13, 2021
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Aug'21
UN special rapporteurs call for surveillance tech moratorium
In the wake of revelations about NSO Groups Pegasus spyware, a number of special rapporteurs from the United Nations are re-igniting calls for a global moratorium on the sale and transfer of surveillance technologies
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August 11, 2021
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Aug'21
Microsoft fixes seven critical bugs on light Patch Tuesday
All seven critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday were related to remote code execution, and there was one zero-day related to Windows Update Medic Service
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August 09, 2021
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Aug'21
Possible ransomware attack hits Italian vaccine booking system
It is still unclear who is behind the attack that caused Covid-19 vaccine bookings in Lazio, Italy, to grind to a halt, as despite masses of files being encrypted no specific ransom demands have been made for the decryptor
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August 05, 2021
05
Aug'21
Nine security flaws found in critical hospital infrastructure
The ‘PwnedPiper’ vulnerabilities identified in systems used by 80% of US hospitals could be used to launch ransomware attacks
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July 23, 2021
23
Jul'21
Can India become a global manufacturing hub?
India can be a major player in the global manufacturing supply chain by shoring up IP protection and tapping opportunities in contract manufacturing and firmware design