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• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Stella McCartney and Google Cloud start machine learning and fashion-focused sustainability push

  Stella McCartney and Google Cloud are embarking on a joint pilot project that will draw on the tech giant's machine learning and cloud-based data processing portfolio to help clean up the fashion industry's supply chains

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  UK pensions trust launches £1.5bn tender for digital services delivery

  The National Employment Savings Trust wants its new supplier to build innovations such as data analytics to services provided via digital channels

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Digital business is connected business, says KuppingerCole

  Businesses need to unlock data, rethink identity and access management, and capitalise on artificial intelligence in the digital era, says KuppingerCole

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Footasylum steps up artificial intelligence to drive customer centricity

  Retailer Footasylum is placing its bets on cloud-based emergent technologies to accelerate automation and personalisation across the business

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Network Rail appoints Aidan Hancock as IT chief

  Former BP technology chief Aidan Hancock joins the rail company to lead its digital transformation efforts

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Councils urged to support 5G readiness

  Local authorities must do more to facilitate the roll-out of next-generation mobile connectivity, study finds

• May 13, 2019 13 May'19

  HSBC hires Ian Bromwich as UK CIO

  New incumbent Ian Bromwich joins HSBC from Lloyds Banking Group

• May 13, 2019 13 May'19

  Health screening IT unfit for purpose since 2011

  National health bodies do not have full visibility of all the patients who need screenings, and a replacement system faces further delay, a new PAC report has found

• May 13, 2019 13 May'19

  More power for NHSX chief as top health service IT executive steps down

  Operations director at NHS England Matthew Swindells has handed over his IT duties to the chief executive at the new digital unit, Matthew Gould

• May 13, 2019 13 May'19

  CIO interview: Sanjeev Katwa, head of technology, Tottenham Hotspur FC

  The Premier League club’s state-of-the-art new stadium is claimed to be the most technologically advanced in the world – its IT leader takes us behind the scenes

• May 10, 2019 10 May'19

  Government hints at biometric regulations

  Immigration minister says options are being considered around governance and oversight of biometric technologies use

• May 10, 2019 10 May'19

  Home Office seeks immigration technology head

  The Home Office is looking for a suitable candidate to fill its newly created high-profile IT role, which will cover Brexit-related requirements around immigration technology

• May 09, 2019 09 May'19

  Deutsche Börse harnesses Microsoft cloud

  German stock exchange signs deal with Microsoft that will not only benefit the exchange, but other organisations in the sector that are considering cloud migration

• May 09, 2019 09 May'19

  Confident BT Group calls on Openreach to build full-fibre faster

  Openreach will ramp up the pace of its full-fibre network build over the next six years, with ambitious targets to bring ultrafast broadband within reach of 15 million homes by the middle of the 2020s

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  MP sets out concerns over GP at Hand software

  Concerns raised over the robustness and breadth of the software underpinning Babylon Health’s app amid calls for an inquiry into the tool