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• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  Chief data officer role now well-entrenched, says Gartner

  Three out of five chief data officers in a Gartner study reported an increase in headcount, though few are measuring the value of their data assets

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  DCMS Select Committee claims Facebook ‘deliberately frustrated’ fake news inquiry

  Facebook’s UK public policy manager defends its participation in MPs' inquiry into the spread of fake news and disinformation online, which concludes by declaring an end to self-regulation by social media firms

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  IT Priorities 2019: IT professionals plan a big push to migrate off Windows 7

  With the clock ticking to Windows 7 end of support, more than half of the IT professionals who took part in a survey have a Windows 10 migration as their top IT project this year

• February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19

  IT Priorities 2019: IT decision-makers plan for APIs

  The latest Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey shows that IT professionals are deploying business process automation, but application programming interfaces are not far behind

• February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19

  CaixaBank customers can use their faces to withdraw money at ATMs

  Spanish bank begins roll-out of ATMs equipped with facial recognition technology, but customers can still use card and PIN

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Central Saint Martins hosts Three’s 5G trial for London Fashion Week

  Three’s trial 5G network will enable the world’s first augmented reality fashion show at Central Saint Martins, while consumers can test out a prototype network at its flagship store

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  CIO interview: Neil Holden, IT director, Halfords Group

  Motoring and bicycles retailer is growing its use of cloud, expanding on data analytics and exploring new technologies such as artificial intelligence

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Born to be wired

  IBM is helping legendary US motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson to get its motor running with a cloud-based service for a new electric bike

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Cisco CEO brushes off Brexit and other crises

  Chuck Robbins has been speaking about the networking business’ resilience in the face of multiple geopolitical trends and crises, and says his customers just can’t stop spending

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Chinese AI startup claims breakthrough in pediatric diagnosis

  Yitu Healthcare claims over 90% accuracy when diagnosing a range of pediatric diseases using a natural language processing system

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Businesses fail to grasp the true cost of public cloud

  Public cloud infrastructure as a service sounds good on paper, but a survey has found that many IT professionals are seriously overspending

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  London and Helsinki digital partnership challenges big IT platforms

  CDOs of London and Helsinki meet at London’s City Hall to sign a city-to-city digital declaration around AI, open data and digital innovation

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Legacy systems holding banks back from meeting demand for instant accounts

  Banks are struggling to meet customer demand to open accounts instantly because of legacy IT systems and processes

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Deloitte will double Hyderabad workforce to support demand for technology services

  Deloitte will add 40,000 staff at its operation in Hyderabad, with IT professionals accounting for a significant portion of employees

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Explainable AI: How and why did the AI say ‘true’?

  The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42, according to Deep Thought in ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ – but experts need to explain AI decisions

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  IR35 reforms: Contractors lack confidence in private sector to manage April 2020 rule change

  Research from IR35 consultancy Qdos suggests contractors lack confidence in the ability of private sector firms to adequately determine how they should be taxed after April 2020

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Dutch developer offers businesses nuclear security option for communications

  Startup that created the secure platform for communication between world leaders at the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands seeks to revolutionise business mail

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Digital project failure still off the menu

  Eight years ago, YouTube head Susan Wojcick described eight pillars that Google uses to innovate – but IT pros are still failing to fail fast

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Lauri Love takes legal action against NCA for return of seized computers

  Lauri Love, a former engineering student who won a battle with the US Department of Justice against extradition to the US to face hacking charges, is suing the UK's intelligence agency, the NCA, for the return of his seized computers

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  AI and robotics to form part of curriculum for future medical students

  For the NHS to capitalise on the digital future, new technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics will have to be designed into the learning process for medical students

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Culture clash cripples digital business

  CIOs urged to work with HR to help staff take on new working practices that support digital transformation initiatives

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Interview: Moving to DataOps

  During a London data science popup meeting, Computer Weekly caught up with MoneySuperMarket.com’s analytics head, Harvinder Atwal

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Businesses still figuring out digital transformation have already lost

  Accenture is calling it a post-digital era, one where businesses are already looking beyond digitisation to capitalise on new tech-driven opportunities

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Nordic region primed to pioneer 5G

  The Nordic region could pioneer the commercial use of 5G, with Finland and Sweden hotbeds for the technology

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Government legislates to bring back roaming charges in no-deal Brexit

  All four UK operators have said they have no plans to reintroduce roaming charges, but EE, O2 and Vodafone have not committed themselves not to do so

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Self-driving cars get updated guidelines for trial safety and transparency

  The Department for Transport has issued guidance on trial safety and transparency for self-driving cars, and is sticking by its pledge to have self-driving cars on Britain’s roads in the next two years

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Huawei: We are not spying on the UK

  Huawei’s Ryan Ding tells the British government that the company has never, and will never, use its technology to assist the Chinese intelligence services

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Virgin Media tests 8Gbps home broadband service

  Fifty residents of Papworth, Cambridgeshire, are trialling an 8Gbps FTTP broadband service using existing fibre infrastructure

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  CIO interview: David Walliker, Liverpool Women’s & Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen NHS Trusts

  Being CIO for two different NHS trusts is not an easy task, but David Walliker splits his time between the two, aiming to deliver digital transformation across the board

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  NHS screening programmes plagued by ‘not fit for purpose’ IT

  ‘Complex and ageing IT’ is causing issues for several NHS screening programmes, according to the National Audit Office

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Coders and developers: The new heroes of the network?

  Cisco is moving towards a software-based future. We chatted to Susie Wee, founder and leader of Cisco developer and innovation programme, DevNet, to find out how she is helping to enable this change

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  What is CIO best practice when it comes to cloud security?

  As businesses increasingly adopt cloud-first strategies, how can they ensure their security is up to scratch? Computer Weekly asks the experts

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Civil liberties groups to challenge bulk surveillance and intelligence sharing in Strasbourg

  Coalition of campaigning groups wins the right to challenge the UK’s use of bulk surveillance powers, which allows suspicionless surveillance of the population and sharing of intercepted data with overseas intelligence agencies, in European Court of...

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Marks & Spencer launches charging banks as part of startup partnership

  Retailer Marks & Spencer has announced it will be adding battery charging banks to its stores as part of startup partnership

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Payday lender cuts troubleshooting by 30% with Virtual Instruments

  Curo Financial thought storage was slowing down its websites, but found virtual machine and network issues were to blame. To fix this, it’s going proactive on storage performance issues

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Cambridge launches urban data IoT project

  The city of Cambridge will use Telensa IoT sensors and a Microsoft Azure platform to better manage its urban data assets

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  CIO interview: David Germain, CITO, RSA Insurance Group

  Insurance giant’s chief information and technology officer wants to refresh the company’s user computing environment, make smart technology investments and take advantage of the latest innovations

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  BBC seeks to increase younger audience through data analytics

  The BBC’s head of product, Rebecca Salsbury, talks about the broadcaster’s work to improve its use of data analytics to attract more young viewers

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  Interview: The power of open source

  Stefanie Chiras, who heads up RHEL at Red Hat, discusses how open source enables enterprises to benefit from tech innovations

• February 03, 2019 03 Feb'19

  Alibaba Cloud teams up with SMU on training programme

  Alibaba Cloud will equip small and medium-sized enterprises with cloud computing and other technology skills through a partnership with Singapore Management University

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  Met Police deploys live facial recognition technology for ninth time

  Police say technology is helping to prevent and detect crime by identifying wanted criminals, but privacy groups have voiced their opposition

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  Innocent people arrested following surveillance blunders, IPCO reveals

  Interception of communications commissioner Adrian Fulford warns of “grave” repercussions for people wrongly identified as suspects due to errors made when government bodies access email, phone and telephone data

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  TSB blames IT disaster for huge losses

  TSB made a huge loss in its latest financial year because of costs it incurred as a result of an IT disaster

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  ICO to audit Leave.EU and Eldon Insurance

  UK privacy watchdog will audit the data protection practices at Leave.EU and Eldon Insurance and has confirmed fines for both companies for unlawful marketing messages

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  BT stockpiles networking kit for no-deal Brexit as Patterson exits

  Outgoing BT boss Gavin Patterson shared some details on the company’s contingency planning for a feared no-deal Brexit as chief executive Philip Jansen formally takes charge of the business

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  No-deal Brexit could lead to data issues, MPs told

  Trade body TechUK is concerned smaller companies are far from ready for a no-deal scenario, while warning that leaving without a deal could lead to serious data issues for businesses

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Airbus investigates personnel data breach

  Intruders were detected in the information systems of manufacturer’s commercial aircraft business, highlighting the need for a new approach to data protection

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  How Airbus handles IoT network traffic in manufacturing

  The internet of things is set to power the fourth industrial revolution, providing data to optimise manufacturing. Airbus is starting to put sensors in aircraft assembly

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Facebook profit up despite privacy failings

  Social media giant reports profit gains for the last quarter and the past year, despite a string of privacy blunders that came to light in 2018

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Government launches data trust programme

  Digital secretary Jeremy Wright sets out plans for scheme using data sharing to tackle global challenges such as illegal wildlife trade and food waste