Behind the scenes, the managers who engineered Germany's triumphant campaign in the soccer World Cup finals in Brazil have apparently been analysing huge volumes of player data, processed by SAP's HANA in-memory computing technology.

Unmanned aerial vehicles lined up on parade at this year's Farnborough Airshow - and not all them fit the familiar drone profile.

With enough steel doors, tunnels and caverns to make a James Bond villain weep with envy, Switzerland's former main Cold War command centre is undergoing a makeover as a cloud computing datacentre.