IBM has scored a notable victory in the cloud market after being selected ahead of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure by cloud software provider Workday for a seven-year contract. IBM explained...
A hacking group called the Shadow Brokers claims to have turned the tables on the US National Security Agency (NSA) by hacking into its servers, stealing information and auctioning it off. Reports have...
Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 and 8.1 will receive cumulative updates once a month instead of individual ones from October 2016. You may recall that this was a trick already used by Microsoft...
Google has started the rollout of end-to-end encrypted video calling app Duo as the company rejigs its video chat line-up to take on Apple's FaceTime video calling service. Announced at this year's Google...
The European Commission (EC) is considering making web-based chat services such as Skype, WhatsApp and iMessage subject to the same laws governing telecoms providers, which could have a big impact on privacy...
HMRC has issued a series of consultation documents outlining how the department plans to transform the UK's tax system under the Making Tax Digital initiative. The reforms are intended to make HMRC one...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been reminiscing about his five years at the helm of the world’s biggest company since he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011. His time at the top has been broadly successful,...
IBM's TrueNorth "cognitive chip" built to function like the human brain has proved itself a compelling resource for digital image processing. Samsung took the 4,096 cores, one million neurons and 256...
The government has promised to underwrite any funding proposals made under the European Union Horizon 2020 framework to safeguard the UK’s cutting-edge science and technology research. Chancellor Philip...
A Russian whistleblower who revealed state-backed athlete doping in the country has had her account on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) website hacked, potentially revealing her whereabouts. Yuliya...