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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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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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Bandwidth problems? DIY fibre could dig you out of a hole
Waiting for an incumbent telecoms supplier to install real broadband can be futile. And a spot of DIY is often far easier than you might think.
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IT skills crisis - is it over for good?
The vast majority of firms are neither struggling to secure the IT skills they need nor investing in training IT staff, finds an annual report into the state of the IT jobs market.
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British Airways uses Google image search to spot frequent fliers
BA will use the image search feature to identify high profile passengers to allow staff to greet customers by name.
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BYOD: Haven't got a policy? Maybe it's time you did
Most organisations still don't have a strategy for dealing with the demands of bring your own device - but pressure to have one continues to build.
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Why business software needs to follow Facebook's lead
Business software needs to be redesigned around the model pioneered by consumer social networks such as Facebook, according to the CEO of online e-invoicing and B2B network Tradeshift.
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Tech skills: The problem's not the staff, it's the bozos in charge
Evidence is mounting that technologically illiterate managers are causing more damage to corporate productivity than a shortage of IT skills among staff.
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Raspberry Pi: Coming to a business near you
Manufacturers of the $40 Raspberry Pi Linux computer have lifted restrictions on bulk purchasing, opening the door for businesses to buy the boards for their firm.
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Space holidays: How tourism is saving manned space flight
Get ready for the ultimate package tour: Nick Heath talks to the companies developing the spaceplanes that could soon be taking you into orbit - if you can afford the ticket.
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Tablets: Why the middle-aged are their biggest fans
The older generation, those aged 45 plus, are leading the shift towards tablet computing and away from PCs, and not - contrary to received wisdom - millennials, according to research.
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Why a gap year could leave IT in schools at the bottom of the class
Computing lessons in English schools are at risk of being scaled back after the government scrapped the national IT curriculum earlier this year.
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Olympics 2012: Comms crunch hits cycling, tweeting get the blame
Communcations problems disrupted coverage of an Olympic cycling with tweeting and radio interference blamed. Organisers say they are working to avoid similar disruption during other events.
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How graphics card supercomputers could help us map the universe
A GPU-based supercomputing cluster could help the world's largest radio telescope piece together enormous flows of data.
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Offshoring: Why it's an opportunity, not a threat
IT industry experts in the UK argue that offshoring shouldn't be viewed simply as a threat to domestic jobs but as an opportunity to join a global workforce.