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The long-range drone that can keep up with a car and fly for an hour
A German team are aiming to build a faster drone that can keep going for longer by adding combustion engines.
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Five silver linings of the public cloud
Customers of Amazon Web Services reveal the rewards of migrating key systems to the public cloud platform.
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How 3D printing could make robotic hands more affordable
The start-up that wants to make customised, robotic hands available to the millions of people with missing hands worldwide.
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How to scale online services for millions of users without losing vital data
European gambling portal bet365 on how the programming language Erlang and the NoSQL data store Riak is helping it handle millions of transactions at once.
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Forget the smartphone hype, PCs are still the most important business gadget
Smartphones might create gadget envy, but it seems that nothing beats a PC for real work.
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UK poised to relax rules on employing overseas workers for some IT jobs
The UK government is recommended to allow start-ups to employ workers from outside Europe in developer and cyber security roles without trying to fill those roles domestically.
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Bigger budgets, better tech: Why 2015 is a good year to be working in IT
CIOs are feeling optimistic about their prospects and budgets are on the up.
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Raspberry Pi 2 launch: Six times faster with Windows 10 and Ubuntu support
A major update to the credit card sized Raspberry Pi board is introduced, with a boost to the CPU and memory expected to help it run as a general-purpose PC.
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Why your urine could usher in an era of personalised medicine
How big data analytics is providing insight into the chemical make-up of our bodies at a unmatched level of detail, and why it could lead to bespoke treatments and diagnoses.
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Time for IT jobs to be set aside for women
With women accounting for only a fraction of people studying computer science, there have been calls for gender-related quotas for IT roles.
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Mayor of city that threw out Microsoft told to end attacks on Linux
The mayor of Munich, the city that replaced Windows with Linux, is told his public attacks on the move to open source are hampering efforts to end the authority's IT staffing shortage.
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Businesses not hiring IT apprentices despite skills shortage claims
Despite claims the UK and US are in the grip of an IT skills shortage, the number of people being accepted for IT apprenticeships has fallen by one third - with fewer than one in 10 applicants securin...
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On-demand 3D printing services take aim at small businesses
Almost half of of consumer, heavy industry and life sciences manufacturers are expected to be using 3D printers within three years. To help companies experiment with the technology on-demand 3D printi...
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The intelligent knife that helps surgeons sniff out cancer
The story of the intelligent knife that helps surgeons extract tumours by analysing what tissue they are extracting as they are cutting.
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Artificial Intelligence and life beyond the algorithm: Alan Turing and the future of computing
Turing is not just a historical figure; his work is still crammed with relevance - and tricky questions.
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Why the future of tech demands smarter people, not smarter gadgets
The next 30 years of innovation risk being wasted unless society does a better job of educating people about the potential - and downsides - of technology.
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UK tech firms are growing at the fastest rate for nearly decade
Hiring and investment is up at tech firms, particularly in London, according to research.
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Public cloud powers ahead - but the doubts linger
While spending on the public cloud is up, main uses remain rooted firmly in non-critical areas.
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Outsourcing: Coming in from the cold as the economy thaws?
Having fallen away, the number of outsourcing contracts signed is rising again - but organisations are renegotiating a lot of existing deals.
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IT departments: Compete with consumer cloud apps or risk a security breach
Companies faced with staff sourcing their own cloud apps and services to use in their job are not addressing the risk by simply banning staff-sourced IT.
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BYOD: What's really happening behind the hype?
While workers are getting more options around the devices they can use at work, adoption of bring your own device still varies.
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Five ways to put personal data out of harm's way
Handling personal data can be costly and hazardous for businesses, which is why they are increasingly looking for an exit strategy that shifts the burden onto third-party providers.
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Bigger budgets, better tech: Why 2015 is a good year to be working in IT
CIOs are feeling optimistic about their prospects and budgets are on the up.
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Five silver linings of the public cloud
Customers of Amazon Web Services reveal the rewards of migrating key systems to the public cloud platform.
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ARM's first 64-bit servers: Just what can you expect to run on them?
With the first enterprise-ready ARM-based servers due this year, it's starting to become clearer which workloads suit these low-energy machines.
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How to scale online services for millions of users without losing vital data
European gambling portal bet365 on how the programming language Erlang and the NoSQL data store Riak is helping it handle millions of transactions at once.
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APIs: Bringing down barriers between businesses
How UK broadcaster Channel 4 has simplified the way it shares information with the many different outside organisations it does business with.
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Forget the smartphone hype, PCs are still the most important business gadget
Smartphones might create gadget envy, but it seems that nothing beats a PC for real work.
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Enterprise cloud storage still losing out to Dropbox in the workplace
Employees are more likely to use consumer-grade cloud storage systems rather than enterprise-focused alternatives, according to new data.
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Top in-demand IT skills revealed
Demand for permanent and temporary tech staff remains high, and some skills are in particularly short supply.
