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• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

  How Code First: Girls uses partnerships to teach girls to code

  CEO of social enterprise Code First: Girls explains how partnerships with firms such as Trainline and Goldman Sachs are helping to reach the firm’s goal of teaching 20,000 women to code by 2020

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Why does India have a higher percentage of women in tech than the UK?

  Research by the Open University has assessed the differences between the women in IT landscape in the UK and India

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Organisations can use GDPR ambiguity to contest fines in court, experts say

  Businesses can use the vagueness of the regulation to argue against fines in court, say experts

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  Arsenal uses Innovation Lab accelerator to improve worldwide fan experience

  Arsenal’s Innovation Lab programme has enabled collaboration with “world-class” startups to offer the best experience for fans in the future, says the club’s IT director

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs

  Intelligent agents and automation will be needed to support digitisation efforts in business, but to succeed, IT will need to apply these techniques internally

• March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

  Ransomware publicity heightened awareness but other threats remain, experts say

  Due to several high profile attacks over the past year, ransomware is now well known across organisations, but there are other threats to be aware of, say cyber security experts

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Fintechs weigh up their partnership options

  Fintechs need to consider what type of companies they should work with to make the most of open banking regulations

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  What would coders do in ethical grey areas?

  Software developers are writing code that affects the lives of millions of people and how businesses are run, but what do coders think about some of the ethical questions they face?

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Tech North aims to fill 24 tech jobs in 24 hours

  Government-backed initiative is launching a campaign to try to fill 24 digital job vacancies in the north of England within a day

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Ireland eyes Brexit-triggered tech investments

  The organisation that champions Ireland to foreign investors has seen an increase in IT companies moving to its shores

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Researchers use AI, big data and machine learning to find best place in the world to live

  West Perth in Australia and Hebden Bridge in the UK are among the top locations ranked by machine learning tool in SAS project

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Think tank reports lifts lid on police cyber crime training

  UK think tank Parliament Street has lifted the lid on spending by police forces on training staff to deal with cyber crime and recommended greater collaboration in this regard

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Australia pilots visa scheme to ease talent crunch

  The Global Talent Scheme follows the government’s move to scrap the 457 visa, but industry watchers say smaller companies will struggle to meet its salary threshold

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Experian: How inclusion can solve more than IT problems

  Paul Hill, head of global propositions development at Experian, talks about the many advantages and few challenges that Experian encountered when working with autistic technology consultants from Auticon

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  School uses game-based initiative to find future cyber talent

  Skinners’ Academy introduces government-backed Cyber Discovery programme to find cyber security professionals of the future

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Tech firms not “walking the walk” when it comes to diversity

  Despite high-tech firms claiming to have a good track record in diversity, most do not consider it when making business decisions

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  Majority of organisations unaware of costs and responsibilities for cloud outages, research finds

  Most companies are unaware about the costs associated with a cloud outage and who is responsible for getting systems back online

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  UK demand for AI professionals has almost tripled in three years

  As the technology landscape changes, so do the skills organisations need, and research by jobsite Indeed has revealed a big rise in demand for people with artificial intelligence skills

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  Tesco appoints new chief technology officer

  Supermarket giant’s new CTO joins from Airbus and will continue to implement retailer’s digital transformation programme

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  Coders feel responsible for impact of artificial intelligence on society

  The technologists building artificial intelligence algorithms should take responsibility for the technology’s impact on society, a survey finds

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  More than 60% of teen girls regret not studying Stem

  Accenture study shows 62% of teenage girls regret not studying science, technology, engineering and maths subjects for longer

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  Infosys announces more US jobs

  Indian supplier Infosys continues to open hubs and recruit more IT professionals in the US

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  Openreach to open 12 fibre broadband engineering schools

  Openreach has opened the first of 12 planned training centres around the UK as it sets out to recruit more than 3,000 fibre broadband engineers

• March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

  Survey reveals what the coders building the future desire

  Global survey reveals some of the attitudes of the world's software developers

• March 12, 2018 12 Mar'18

  Digital for rural areas worth up to £26bn to UK economy

  A study commissioned by Amazon has posited that greater use of digital tools and services could be worth between £12bn and £26bn per annum to the UK economy

• March 12, 2018 12 Mar'18

  Politicians need to be more involved in tech, says Sadiq Khan

  Flying the flag for the UK capital at the SXSW festival in Texas, London mayor Sadiq Khan says government should “do more” for technology, as well as mitigate the risks that come with it, and calls on social media firms to take responsibility for ...

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Booking.com annual tech awards focuses on creating visible role models

  Booking.com has announced the winners of its 2018 Technology Playmaker Awards and emphasised the importance of having more visible female role models in the industry

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Tech City targets companies outside of London for next cohort in accelerator programme

  Tech City UK has placed more of an emphasis on companies outside of the capital for its next accelerator cohort

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Tech experts want government to help workers prepare for AI disruption

  The tech brains working with artificial intelligence think governments have an important role to play in preparing workers for change

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Cyber attacks up nearly 20% in 2017

  Research by SonicWall shows there were 9.32 billion malware attacks globally last year, but ransomware attacks fell by 71%

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Nordic CIO interview: Mikael Ludvigsen, Novozymes

  Danish biotechnology company’s CIO tells Computer Weekly about some of the changes he has made to the organisation’s IT department since he arrived 19 months ago

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  European cities woo English-speaking IT talent

  Organisations in major European cities have upped their search for English-speaking talent, including IT professionals, since the UK’s referendum on EU membership

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Nesta challenge leverages Open Banking to help small businesses

  Innovation foundation invites enterprises of all sizes to compete for a share of a £2.5m prize fund in the second phase of its Open Up Challenge

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  CIOs ill-prepared for IT changes to enable digital business transformation

  Lack of skills, an inability to make the most of advanced analytics internally and slow software development are hampering digitisation efforts

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Vast majority of consumers unaware of Open Banking consequences, research finds

  Research shows most consumers have little or no knowledge of the Open Banking regulation and how it will affect them

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  New privacy fears as IT challenges delay surveillance oversight body by a year

  IT challenges have delayed government plans for an independent body to authorise requests to access the public’s internet and phone records by nearly a year, raising new legal and privacy concerns

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Pizza Hut customers can now pay for meals with Mastercard Qkr mobile app

  Pizza Hut has joined a number of UK restaurants in enabling customers to pay at the table using the Mastercard Qkr app

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Middle East faces IT talent crunch

  Countries in the Middle East are adopting the latest technologies at such a rapid rate that the region faces an IT skills shortage

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  CA Technologies helps teachers learn more about future jobs

  Technology firm CA Technologies has run its first Ambassador Academy to help teachers learn more about what skills will be needed for future jobs

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  London mayor announces £7m programme to seek out digital talent

  Programme launched in London to help attract more young people, women and BAME individuals into technology careers

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Almost half of young women don’t feel they have the skills for a tech career

  Only a small percentage of young people who want to work in technology are women, with 45% of young women claiming they don’t have the skills for tech

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Open Banking could bring an extra £1bn to UK economy

  As a result of the Open Banking initiative, an additional £1bn could be available to drive the UK economy forward

• February 27, 2018 27 Feb'18

  Understanding the cyber threat key to UK defence, says NCSC

  Understanding cyber threats is key to defending the UK and ensuring it is a safe place to do business, says the National Cyber Security Centre

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  Migration figures could spell trouble for UK tech

  Figures show a record number of EU workers choosing to leave the UK and, with fewer people moving to the region, the IT skills gap looks set to widen

• February 23, 2018 23 Feb'18

  More than a quarter of UK shoppers prepared for wearable contactless payments

  Mastercard research shows a growing number of shoppers are prepared to make purchases with smartwatches, rings and bracelets

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Makers Academy: Helping firms to address diversity recruitment woes

  Training provider Makers Academy has helped firms such as Tesco recruit work-ready and diverse software engineering talent

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  Manchester Science Partnerships opens competition to drive data science and tech startups forward

  Manchester Science Partnerships has begun a competition for startups to win free desk space at its Tech Incubator

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  Demand for cyber security skills outstrips internal supply, research finds

  Businesses are increasingly looking for cyber security skills, but the gap between demand and supply is still prominent

• February 20, 2018 20 Feb'18

  University of Cambridge to host ethical hacking challenge

  Cambridge is hosting its 2018 hacking challenge, aiming to captivate students and address the cyber security skills shortage

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Nokia plans job cuts in Finland

  Hundreds of IT jobs are at risk in Finland as Nokia announces plans for more cuts