Fears UK government is handing over NHS data to US overlords
Concern about motivations of US tech companies
A campaign group has written to UK health secretary Matt Hancock calling for greater openness in the government’s embrace of private-sector tech companies contracted to provide a data store and dashboards as part of the NHS response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
UK workers think that tech will change their work
More than 90 per cent think digital transformation will effect them
Most working professionals in the UK think their lives are going to be changed by digital transformation.
UK to lose US data protection against Google antics
Brexit means that Google can shift data to the US
Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under US jurisdiction instead.
UK to ban default passwords in IoT gear
Now hackers will have to think a bit harder
The UK government has banned the use of default passwords in Internet of Things devices.
Facebook plans UK expansion
Wants to hire more than a thousand
Facebook will hire 1,000 people in London this year in roles such as product development and safety as it continues to grow its biggest engineering centre outside the United States after Britain leaves the European Union.
UK telcos spend fortune on R&D
UK's fastest-growing sector
The telecoms industry is the UK’s fastest-growing sector when it comes to spending on R&D, the latest ONS data has revealed.
5G proving 450 percent faster
At least for downloads
Speed testing giant Ookla has shown that the early 5G mobile networks are more than 450 percent faster than older ones – at least on downloads.
Tesla sets up factory in Germany
Snubs UK because of Brexit
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said the electric car maker is going to build a new vehicle factory, “Gigafactory 4” in Berlin.
Johnson will allow Huawei to flog 5G gear in UK
Post-Brexit we will need everything on the cheap
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to grant China’s Huawei access to the UK’s future 5G telecoms network, the Sunday Times reported.
Boffins abandon Blighty
Research projects suffer
Hopes that the UK would become a worldwide technological powerhouse after Brexit got rid of its Polish plumbers have been dashed after figures show that research projects are plummetting, as Blighty's brightest brains move out and research funding has fallen by nearly a third since 2015.