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• April 24, 2020 24 Apr'20

  European fibre roll-outs speed up

  European fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-building coverage maintains a positive growth trend, with subscribers increasing by 15% since September 2018

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  Nasdaq gives customers real-time data through cloud platform

  US stock exchange uses public cloud and APIs to provide investment companies with real-time data on trading activity

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Remote workers air long-term productivity concerns over home-working tech

  Research from managed service provider Atlas Cloud highlights concerns from remote workers that their work-from-home tech kit might not be up to the job in the long term

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  Keeping coral reefs healthy with AI

  Underwater video cameras equipped with artificial intelligence smarts have been deployed in the waters off Pangatalan island in the Philippines to track the barometers of coral reef health

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Swedish college implements digital plans early

  Work done by a Swedish medical school over the past few years to prepare digital education options is paying off as lockdown forces it to close physical classrooms

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  Traditional banks need to do more than gloss over back-end systems with fintech paint

  Banks need to work with fintechs if they are to prosper in the new world, but first they must update their back-end systems

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  Border Force awards £3.1m contract to Capita

  The contract with the Home Office's law enforcement agency will see the implementation of 4G and satellite infrastructure

• April 20, 2020 20 Apr'20

  Green Flag waves farewell to Oracle legacy with cloud-native revamp

  The roadside breakdown rescue service has developed a technical architecture to support an ecosystem approach to business

• April 20, 2020 20 Apr'20

  CaixaBank uses hybrid of conventional and quantum computers to classify risk

  Spain's CaixaBank is using quantum computers as part of a project to assess risk using machine learning algorithms

• April 20, 2020 20 Apr'20

  Machine learning to help hospitals predict Covid-19 demand

  The system developed by NHS Digital and the University of Cambridge will support hospitals in England in handling upcoming demand for intensive care beds and ventilators

• April 17, 2020 17 Apr'20

  Government investigates perceptions about data sharing of health and social care

  A project has been launched to find out about citizen understanding around data uses, and how perception may have been affected after the Covid-19 outbreak

• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  Rolls-Royce alliance focuses on Coronavirus economic recovery

  The Rolls-Royce industry alliance aims to bring together data teams across industries and academia to help governments and businesses get back to work

• April 15, 2020 15 Apr'20

  House of Commons reports progress on virtual Parliament

  Plans to take certain proceedings online are on track but ‘bumps along the way’ are expected, according to the Speaker of the House of Commons

• April 15, 2020 15 Apr'20

  Tech firms, academia and charities unite to deliver 4G tablets to Covid-19 patients

  The Life Lines project aims to keep critically ill patients connected when they are being cared for inside intensive care units across the UK

• April 14, 2020 14 Apr'20

  Three changes to office work post-coronavirus

  While it’s early days, experts believe the coronavirus pandemic could change working practices. We investigate

• April 14, 2020 14 Apr'20

  Inside Alibaba’s NLP labs

  Alibaba is among a growing crop of technology companies that are rising to the challenge of solving the toughest problems in natural language processing

• April 13, 2020 13 Apr'20

  How Singapore’s Niometrics is changing network analytics

  By extracting granular data and emphasising privacy protection, Niometrics’ network analytics technology is being put through its paces in a variety of use cases

• April 09, 2020 09 Apr'20

  NHSX partners with Facebook and Accenture for video call device trial during Covid-19 crisis

  Social media firm will distribute the equipment in hospitals, care homes and other healthcare settings

• April 09, 2020 09 Apr'20

  ‘It's going to be a really different NHS’ – how NHS Digital is tackling the coronavirus crisis

  The Covid-19 outbreak has led to huge amounts of work for NHS Digital, shifting its priorities and creating unprecedented demand for products and data, but it has also had a positive impact, says CEO Sarah Wilkinson

• April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20

  Games developers join fight against coronavirus

  Sector firms will deliver health messaging to UK citizens though popular games under a partnership with the government

• April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20

  Australian open source project to expand global reach

  Data61’s open source seL4 microkernel project will be supported by a new foundation created under the auspices of the Linux Foundation

• April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20

  UCL collaborates with IBM to use virtual reality to tackle loneliness

  Through an industry collaboration with IBM, university is enabling students to tackle real-world problems using virtual reality, artificial intelligence and internet of things technologies

• April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20

  House of Commons commits to digital Parliament

  Temporary arrangements will be in place to allow MPs to work remotely, with a project involving the BBC set to implement a more robust solution

• April 06, 2020 06 Apr'20

  Government launches £20m tech fund to tackle coronavirus crisis

  The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy announced the funding to back proposals to be reviewed by Innovate UK

• April 06, 2020 06 Apr'20

  Malaysia’s telemedicine vision gets fresh boost

  Tech startup DoctorOnCall has built a virtual health advisory platform for people to consult doctors amid the coronavirus outbreak, catalysing Malaysia’s telemedicine blueprint, which was conceived over two decades ago

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  Covid-19 apps pose threat to digital privacy on a global scale

  Digital security firm Surfshark has reviewed a number of apps aimed at tackling the spread of coronavirus, and found that many pose a threat to people’s digital privacy

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Welsh National Health Service preps Watson-powered chatbot

  NHS Wales is working on a Watson-powered virtual assistant to provide information on Covid-19, with several health services worldwide also looking to Watson to provide coronavirus advice for the public and clinicians

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  Speaker calls for virtual Parliament during coronavirus crisis

  Pressure mounts to build on previous virtual trials in parliamentary committee hearings and enable the House of Commons to operate remotely.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  Use of NHS technology surges during Covid-19 outbreak

  Digital platforms provided by the health service are attracting many more users as a result of social distancing and the need to provide services remotely

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  Singapore researchers get priority access to HPC resources

  Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre is fast-tracking access to its high-performance computing resources for researchers working on Covid-19-related projects

• April 02, 2020 02 Apr'20

  MPs call for digital Parliament

  In a letter with more than 100 co-signatories, Labour MP Chi Onwurah calls for politicians to lead by example during the coronavirus outbreak

• April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: NHSX working on contact tracing app

  A contact tracing app to track the spread of infection is being developed, although specific technical details remain scarce

• April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20

  Air industry eyes £300m savings through blockchain for cargo efficiency

  Air transport alliance tests use of blockchain to transform the multibillion-pound industry that manages air cargo transportation

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Whitehall appoints civil service COO to replace John Manzoni

  Former CMA chief executive Alex Chisholm also takes on the roles of COO and permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Hackathon launched to help fight coronavirus pandemic

  Virtual hackathon seeks to develop a suite of applications to help people during the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak through ethically built technology

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Insurance company uses artificial intelligence to assess car damage when claims are made

  In the latest insurtech development, the UK arm of insurance company Ageas is using artificial intelligence to assess vehicle damage in accidents

• March 30, 2020 30 Mar'20

  Ministry of Defence releases defence data management strategy

  The report sets out how the department will improve the way it manages and uses data

• March 29, 2020 29 Mar'20

  Australian government unveils Covid-19 app

  Federal government launches Coronavirus Australia app to keep Australians updated on the latest developments in its fight against the coronavirus outbreak

• March 27, 2020 27 Mar'20

  Lorca calls on security scaleups to tackle coronavirus challenge

  Lorca innovation programme has launched an open call for its next cohort of cyber security scaleups, with a timely focus on coronavirus challenges

• March 27, 2020 27 Mar'20

  Crown Commercial Service advises on remote working tech

  Public sector organisations want to understand their options to support their workforce during the Covid-19 crisis

• March 27, 2020 27 Mar'20

  NHS rolls out video consultations at GPs to support lockdown

  Video consultation service aims to reduce face-to-face contact to protect patients and reduce infection, as well as caring for people who are mostly staying at home

• March 27, 2020 27 Mar'20

  Huawei to boost Kunpeng ecosystem in cloud play

  Chinese tech giant will shell out $200m this year to build an ecosystem around its Arm-based processor to bolster its position in the cloud computing market

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  Australia inks digital economy pact with Singapore

  Australia’s digital economy agreement with Singapore will pave the way for data transfers and other digital trade opportunities

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Singapore government to open source contact-tracing protocol

  Singapore’s Government Technology Agency is contributing the source codes of the BlueTrace protocol that powers its contact-tracing app

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: NHSX calls on tech sector to support Covid-19 effort

  Technology sector asked to develop new ways to help the NHS manage virus outbreak and support people who are most at risk

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Singapore’s JTC taps GIS platform in Punggol Digital District

  The planners behind Singapore’s Punggol Digital District are using a geographic information system to make better planning decisions and improve day-to-day operations

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Dstl launches report on the future of cities

  Dstl research aims to support decision-making of the UK military by analysing topics such as the influence of technology in urban warfare

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Employee computing emissions measured by only one-third of enterprises, Citrix research suggests

  Many large companies in the UK are not measuring the greenhouse gas emissions from employee computing, with just a quarter of managers viewing IT sustainability as a top priority for their organisation

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Covid-19: NHS tackles coronavirus crisis with the help of tech

  As the pandemic grows and creates enormous pressure on the health service, NHS organisations across the country are using technology to help cope

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Surrey goes live with child health system

  CSH Surrey goes live with its new platform, with the information on 440,000 children's health now consolidated onto a single platform