UK issues record data protection fines in the past year

The UK was one of the most active regions for regulatory enforcement action in Europe last year in terms of fines and enforcement notices issued over data protection

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Dell Launches AMD-Powered All-in-Ones, Gaming Desktops

Dell has unveiled new desktops and AIOs in partnership with AMD. These types of deals are critical to AMD's long-term economic health.

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Nest Cam IQ Can Recognize Familiar Faces With its 4K Sensor

It has a 4K sensor, but it doesn't actually stream in 4K. That's a good thing, though.

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Qualcomm Inks Deal to Build Snapdragon 835 PCs With HP, Lenovo, Asus

Qualcomm has announced new mobile systems in partnership with multiple OEMs. After years of dancing around each other, are ARM and x86 finally ready to fight?

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Openreach switches on G.fast in Scotland

Openreach has turned on new pilot locations for G.fast ultrafast broadband delivery technology in Edinburgh and Glasgow

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Benefits of 5G innovation may outweigh costs for NHS, says top surgeon

The advent of 5G mobile networking could enable new modes of clinical practice that will help bring costs down for the cash-starved NHS

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TfL likely to tender for 4G on the tube

Transport for London is planning to undertake preliminary work on installing 4G mobile networking services on the London Underground in the near future

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WannaCry shows validity of risk-based security, says RSA head

WannaCry and other recent cyber attacks underline the importance of adopting a risk-based approach to security, says RSA president

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Interview: Charles Cameron, director of technology, Centrica

Centrica is in the midst of developing a fully-fledged software business. Its group director of technology and engineering talks to Computer Weekly about the strategy

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Microsoft shakes up Computex with mixed reality showcase

Mixed reality could be the next big boom for PC manufacturers, with several Windows headsets joining Microsoft’s own HoloLens

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Hundreds of sub-postmasters have applied to join IT-related legal action since March

The number of sub-postmasters who claim to have suffered as a result of a faulty Post Office IT system has reached 1,300

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IR35 reforms: NHS revises stance on contractor tax status assessments

National Health Service’s U-turn over IR35 assessments could prompt other public sector bodies to follow suit, say experts

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ET Deals: Lenovo IdeaCentre Y710 Quad-Core Gaming Cube for $699

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Norwegian bakery chain gets the taste of mobile reporting

Baker Brun, a bakery company in Norway, is modernising its business processes through the latest technologies

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Security Think Tank: Key things to consider to block malicious email attachments

What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?

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Nvidia-powered Max-Q Gaming Laptops Will Be Thinner and More Powerful

By optimizing performance, Max-Q can make gaming laptops with a desktop-class GTX 1080 almost as thin as a standard ultraportable notebook.

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Shadow Brokers prepares zero-day subscription service

Businesses may face an onslaught of zero-day attacks soon as the group that leaked the NSA exploits used in the WannaCry ransomware attacks prepares to release more stolen code

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Volvo partners Google to develop Android for cars

Car manufacturer and web giant are jointly developing an Android-based in-car infotainment system

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Supreme Court to Lexmark: You Can’t Lock Ink Cartridges to Stop Refills

Does Lexmark's patent on ink cartridges extend to forbidding buyers from re-using or selling them? No way, says a nearly unanimous Supreme Court.

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In an age of uncertainty, now is the time to rethink your outsourcing strategy

Brexit and Trump are not only creating challenges but also opportunities in the outsourcing sector, and outsourcing deals will need to be flexible to exploit them

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ICC brings drones, smart bats and virtual reality to international cricket

International Cricket Council teams up with Intel to transform the cricketing experience for fans and players with drones, smart connected bats and virtual reality

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Intel Announces New Core X-Series, Including 18-Core i9 CPU

At Computex in Taipei, Intel has unveiled the updated Core X-Series with a flagship Core i9 CPU. The top-of-the-line Core i9 has an incredible 18 physical cores with Hyper-Threading for a total of 36 threads.

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ET Deals: Save 90% on Cisco CCNA Training Suite

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DevOps practitioners open up about enterprise adoption challenges

Ahead of next week’s DevOps Enterprise Summit in London, practitioners have warned enterprises to stop thinking of DevOps as something only Silicon Valley firms and startups can do successfully

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Construction of Amazon's €1bn Dublin datacentre hit by environmental planning appeal

Amazon's plans to build a €1bn datacentre in Dublin from mid-2017 could be delayed by environmental planning appeal

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Ocado Technology releases on-premise mesh datacentre as open source

To reduce the cost of high-end datacentre servers, Ocado has developed a private cloud that runs on low-end PCs

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ExoMars Lander Crashed Because It Thought It Was Underground

The Schiaparelli lander encountered issues during its descent and was lost. Now, an analysis from the European Space Agency (ESA) details the failure and makes suggestions as to how the second phase of the mission might avoid a similar fate.

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British Airways counts cost of major bank holiday IT system outage

Share price of British Airways' parent company plummets after power supply issue at "local" datacentre grounds flights at Heathrow and Gatwick over the bank holiday weekend

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Andy Rubin, Founder of Android, Reveals Stunning ‘Essential Phone’

Andy Rubin, the founder of Android, has unveiled his first phone -- and it's set to make a real impact at the very top of the industry.

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Samsung Demos Stretchable OLED Display

Samsung has been showing off flexible AMOLED panels for years, but now it's demoing something new: stretchable OLEDs.

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Five ways to cut the risk of Salesforce

Best practices for IT professionals seeking to implement Salesforce’s product portfolio

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Memo to the Prez: Germans Already Build Cars Here

The President reportedly blasts German automakers for not building in the US. Actually, they already build the better part of a million cars here per year.

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ET Deals Memorial Day Roundup: Save on Dell Core i7 Laptops, 1080p Foscam Wireless Cameras, and More

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, we've gathered up some of the very best discounts online. Whether you're looking for a new PC, a 4K television, or even a wireless camera, there's something here for everyone.

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Understanding the economic value of your personal data

Your personal data is worthless – it's only when it's processed by the Facebooks or Googles of this world that it has business value

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Tesla Factory: Unsafe at Any (Line) Speed?

A worker safety group says Tesla's factory is below average on safety. We're getting better, Tesla says. But what happens when it ramps from 80,000 cars in 2016 to 500,000 in 2018?

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Reboot Reality: VR and AR Mark Milestone With New Interactive Exhibit

VR is amazing, but it's tough to try out yourself because of the equipment needed and the prototype nature of so much of the hardware and software. Fortunately, The Tech Museum in San Jose has now opened a permanent exhibit where visitors can experience a variety of VR, AR, and MR projects.

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7.2 Million-Year-Old Jawbone Indicates Oldest Hominin Lived in Europe, Not Africa

New analysis of ancient fossils could upend decades of thinking on when the last common ancestor of humans and chimps lived. Even more surprising, humans may have originated in Europe rather than in Africa.

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Security Think Tank: Employees are one of the greatest defences

What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?

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People can be strongest link in cyber security, says NCSC

People are often seen as the weakest link when it comes to cyber security, but that must change, says the National Cyber Security Centre

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Swedish government agencies join IT spending benchmarking service

Government agencies in Sweden are using a tool by Apptio to help them gain a better understanding of IT costs

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BDUK broadband roll-out hits 8,000 homes per million pounds spent

The latest government statistics on the progress of the BDUK broadband roll-out has delivered fresh insight into the value for money being offered by the scheme

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Estonian e-Residency programme partners Finnish tech startup

Government’s partnership with fintech firm Holvi aims to provide online business banking services to entrepreneurs who take up eResidency

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EternalRocks author throws in the towel after media attention

Security researcher who discovered worm that could have bigger impact than WannaCry says the author seems to have given up

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NASA Releases Stunning First Science Results from Jupiter Probe Juno

NASA has just published the first data from Juno, and it reveals some fascinating things about Jupiter. For one, it has cyclones the size of a planet.

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This Adorable Little Rocket Just Reached Space for the First Time

This rocket can haul just 150 kg (331 pounds) into orbit, but it's cheap and small -- really, look how cute and little it is.

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CBRE: Demand for colocation space in London holds firm in face of Brexit

The latest CBRE quarterly report, charting the performance of the European colocation market, shows demand for capacity in London has so far been unaffected by the triggering of Article 50

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Thunderbolt Goes Royalty-Free as Intel Repositions It to Boost Adoption

Intel's future Thunderbolt standard will be royalty-free and open to other companies should they wish to design their own controllers. That's a major change from how Intel has deployed the technology over the last few years.

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Old foes, new friends: Nordic banks and startups increase collaboration

Banks and startups in the Nordic region are working together to develop new ideas in financial technology

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Mobile users’ expectations are sky high, says Gemalto

Consumers have extremely high expectations for rapid mobile development in the coming years, according to a Gemalto report

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UK businesses urged to prepare for GDPR

With one year to the compliance deadline, the Information Commissioner’s Office has urged UK firms to seize the business benefits of being GDPR-ready

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IT firm gets Scality object storage to boost S3-based offerings

Blue Chip deploys Scality Ring object storage on commodity hardware with S3 connectivity to enable new cloud, backup and archiving product offerings at “a few pence a gigabyte”

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Aggreko powers predictive maintenance with Azure machine learning

Temporary power company moves from reactive to proactive, and now predictive maintenance

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Open19: LinkedIn's bid to lower barriers to open source datacentre tech adoption gathers pace

The Open19 Foundation's mission to create new open industry standards for 19-inch servers continues apace

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Debit card transactions to overtake cash payments, thanks to contactless

The number of payments made using debit cards will exceed the number made by cash three years earlier than expected, as a result of the success of contactless technology

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Security Think Tank: Minimise malware risks through education, process and technology

What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?

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GDPR: One year to compliance and opportunity

With a year to go before all companies dealing with European Union citizens’ data have to comply with new EU data protection rules, the focus for many is on compliance, but some believe business should be the top priority

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The growing influence of the CIO

The role of IT leaders has changed radically over the past decade. Today, digital technology is bringing CIOs new opportunities, higher budgets and the chance to make a strategic difference

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Rackspace senior management reshuffle continues with new CEO appointment

Rackspace confirms new CEO appointment, six months after being acquired by private equity house Apollo Global

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Astronomers Pin Down the Orbit of Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1h

Astronomers have finally pinned down the orbit of TRAPPIST-1h and confirmed it's far too chilly for life.

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VW’s Diesel Defeat Devices Finally Located, Cracked Wide Open

It's taken a few years, but researchers have found VW's defeat device code within its vehicles. It's a doozy.

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Finding customer data is big hurdle to meeting GDPR right to erasure

Global organisations do not know where customer data is stored and use unreliable data removal methods to erase content, a study shows

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Dubai financial services regulator launches temporary licence aimed at fintechs

Dubai is making it easier for financial technology companies to test out their ideas through a temporary licence

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SAP aligns with Saudi Arabia’s IT transformation agenda

Global software giant SAP sees an opportunity for its wide portfolio in Saudi Arabia as the Middle Eastern country transforms

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DJI to Drone Customers: Upgrade Your Firmware or Practically Give Up Flying

DJI has pushed a new app update and firmware for its various drone models, and if you don't download and install it, you won't be flying your drone very far.

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Hackers Use Subtitle Files to Take Over PCs

Security firm Check Point reports a new breed of malware is spreading in fake movie subtitles. You think you're loading a subtitle, but what you're actually doing is giving a hacker full access to your computer.

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Samsung Wants to Lead the Foundry Business to 4nm and Beyond

Samsung has announced its own plans for foundry tech ramp-ups and rollouts, beginning immediately and stretching over the next four years. From EUV and fully-depleted silicon to HBM2 and new packaging techniques, the company is aggressively planning to grow its share of the foundry market.

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Consumer Reports Gives Tesla Model S Partial Credit for a Partial Fix

Tesla lost the top spot in CR's ultra-luxury ratings for auto-braking that wasn't enabled. Finally, Tesla made it work, albeit only at low speeds. As a result, CR gave Tesla half-credit back.

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ET Deals: The Complete Computer Science Bundle for $39

Want to learn to program? Maybe you want to make something awesome with a Raspberry Pi. Today's bundle of online courses from SkillWise aims to help you learn the basics of computer science with a very low barrier to entry.

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DJI Says its New Spark Is the Flying Camera for Everyone

With the Spark, DJI has cut the cost of getting into quality drone photography in half yet again, to $500. That, plus some easier flight modes should make the Spark a popular choice among first-time drone buyers.

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Best Online Backup Solutions

Local backups are a good place to start, but if you're not storing your files offsite as well, they're not really safe. Theft, house fires, and natural disasters could happen at any moment, so adding in an online backup to your routine is the best way to protect your valuable information.

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Iceland IT firm gets Cohesity hyper-converged backup boxes

Thekking scraps ageing IBM and HPE iron for Cohesity hyper-converged nodes with hybrid flash capacity to power deduplication for Veeam backups

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Identity, authentication and authorisation becoming risk-led

Identity management, and authentication and authorisation governance are shifting away from being purely IT initiatives, according to RSA

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Twenty years of online banking has increased financial awareness

Online banking is helping people manage their finances better and reduce their debt as a result

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The 5 Most Important Announcements at Google I/O 2017

At I/O 2017, Google announced new products powered by machine learning, some big improvements to Assistant and Google Home, and it offered up a glimpse of the future of Android in your car.

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Hackers Can Unlock Samsung’s Galaxy S8 Using Fake Irises

Hackers have found a way to break Samsung's biometric authentication systems, and it's not particularly hard to do. Iris authentication isn't the solution it's been sold as.

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Google Can Now Track Your Offline Purchases

Google's hope is that offline purchase data will confirm that the ads you see online do, in fact, influence what you buy in real life.

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Interview: Nick Bleech, head of information security, Travis Perkins

Last year Travis Perkins implemented Splunk to help it to respond more quickly to security threats. Now, the business is looking into machine learning and a single customer view

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US retailer Target agrees $18.5m data breach settlement

A breach settlement with 47 US states has taken the cost of the 2013 data breach at retailer Target to more than $220m

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Digital-only business bank gets regulatory approval

The latest challenger bank gets its regulatory approval and puts modern technology at the core of its offering

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Mobile C-level executives are major risk to business security

C-suite executives logging on to unsecured public Wi-Fi hotspots seem to present one of the biggest security risks to enterprise networks

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How to avoid technical debt in open source communities

Businesses that make use of open source software should dedicate resources to supporting and maintaining the projects their organisations rely on

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How can CIOs drive innovation?

Three steps CIOs can take to help them take the lead in driving innovation in their organisations.

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AMD Clarifies Vega and Server Rollouts, Talks Zen Follow-Ups

AMD's Lisa Su spoke at the JP Morgan Technology conference this week and shared new details on the company's plans for data center expansion, Vega launch dates, and future iterations of its new Zen microprocessor family.

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Google’s AlphaGo Defeats World’s Top Human Go Player

After defeating several of the top players in the world, the "AlphaGo" AI has now bested Ke Jie, the current Go world champion.

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ET deals: Dell Inspiron 3650 Quad-Core Desktop PC for $599

If you want a desktop PC with a good balance between performance and price, check out the Dell Inspiron 3650. With a quad-core Skylake processor and a substantial amount of memory, this flexible PC is a fantastic bargain when you use today's 47% total discount.

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Security Think Tank: 10 control areas to mitigate against malware attacks

What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?

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ChefConf 2017: How DevOps sets enterprises on course for digital transformation success

To mark the start of the ChefConf 2017 user summit in Austin, Texas, Chef CTO Adam Jacob shares his thoughts on how early DevOps adopters are now on course to become “high-velocity” technology companies

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Racetrack Memory products in five years, says IBM fellow

Millennium Prize winner Stuart Parkin says flash and 2D methods of storage are fatally limited – Racetrack Memory offers 100x the capacity without flash’s wear issues

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Cloud data portability: Obstacles to it and how to achieve it

Cloud providers are very keen to get your data into their systems but sometimes it can be difficult or costly to move it elsewhere. We look at solutions to cloud portability

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Three-quarters of internet of things projects are at risk of failure

At Cisco’s IoT World Forum in London, the network supplier releases statistics suggesting that most IoT projects are at risk of, or doomed to, failure

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How CIOs can drive innovation

Three steps IT leaders can take to help them drive innovation in their organisations

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Economic and political uncertainty drives organisations to rethink IT strategies

CIO job satisfaction reaches a three-year high as organisations hire more IT staff and invest in innovative digital technology

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Almost a quarter of UK and US firms likely to miss GDPR deadline

Some 24% of companies polled in the UK and US expect to miss the GDPR compliance deadline of 25 May 2018

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SAP Leonardo positioned as digital transformation catalyst

SAP’s leadership explains how it has devised Leonardo as a cloud-based product plus services concept for moving organisations beyond mode 1 IT to mode 2, drawing on AI, ML, IoT and blockchain

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Co-ordinating data sources is the key to CRM success

Next-generation customer relationship management requires a data-first strategy

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Ford’s CEO, Now Gone, Didn’t Push Fast Enough Into the Future

Ford's youthful-looking CEO didn't position Ford well for the near future, internal critics say. Mark Fields got blamed for not going there. Yet a predecessor, Jacques Nasser, walked the plank 16 years ago for delving too far into the future.

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Samsung, T-Mobile Offer Buy-One-Get-One Free Deal on Galaxy S8

Samsung and T-Mobile have joined forces to offer a great deal on the Samsung Galaxy S8. Buy one, get one free, with very few strings attached.

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Western Digital Adds Helium-Filled 10TB Drives to Consumer, Business Lines

Western Digital is pushing its business and commercial storage array drives up to 10TB and offering them in helium-sealed flavors as well.

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EternalRocks worm combines seven leaked NSA attack tools

Hard on the heels of the WannaCry ransomware attacks, a researcher has found a worm that combines four NSA exploits and associated attack tools, including EternalBlue used by WannaCry

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Agile unlocked: Pivotal uses paired programming and PaaS to bolster cloud app development

Digital transformation consultancy Pivotal explains how paired programming, an empathetic work culture and open source PaaS help enterprises achieve their agile software development goals

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Dubai Set to Deploy its First Robotic Cop

The oil-rich city is set to deploy its first robotic cop on May 24th. This may only be the first step, though.

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SSDs Vulnerable to Deliberate, Low-Level Data Corruption Attacks

A new type of attack against NAND flash can destroy data on planar MLC SSDs, which happens to be a significant percentage of the SSDs on the market.

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Mercedes Joins Tesla in Selling Whole-House Battery Power

Mercedes-Benz leverages its expertise in EV batteries to provide storage for home solar systems. Just like Tesla.

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ET Deals: Save 98% off a Lifetime Membership to School of Game Design

Have you ever wanted to develop your own games? Now's an excellent opportunity to finally act on your passion. StackSocial is offering a lifetime subscription to the School of Game Design at a 98% discount, so you can learn the proper skills for a new career.

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Scientists May Be Close to Understanding the ‘Alien Megastructure Star’

It looks like the aliens have fired up their giant machinery again.

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Only 9% of parents want kids to be tech entrepreneurs

Study shows UK parents would prefer their children to have a traditional job such as doctor, teacher or lawyer

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Dutch railway uses IoT to reduce people jams

Railway stations in The Netherlands are monitoring the movement of travellers to manage traffic flow and reduce people jams

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Security Think Tank: Malware is sneaky

What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?

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HSBC voice authentication tricked by twins

Twin brothers managed to trick HSBC’s voice recognition security system into giving account access to the wrong person

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Middle East largely unscathed after WannaCry cyber attack

The impact of WannaCry on the Middle East was reduced due to the attack falling on a weekend, but it is a stark warning

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Windows 7 accounts for most WannaCry infections

Statistics show that computers running Windows 7 accounted for the biggest proportion of machines infected with the WannaCry ransomware, while NHS suppliers are blamed for hampering patching by NHS trusts

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Best Laptops for Photo Editing

Photo editing on the road is always challenging, with the need for a high-quality display, fast graphics, and lots of RAM at odds with carrying a lightweight laptop. Here are some of the best laptops we've found for the road-warrior photographer.

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Hands On With the Synology DS1517+ NAS: Affordable 10Gbps

Storage for small offices has been a tradeoff between network-accessible and high performance. Now that there are relatively inexpensive 10 Gigabit options available, its possible to have both.

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Microsoft Set to Unveil New Surface Pro With No USB-C or Thunderbolt

Microsoft is prepping an update to its Surface Pro 4, but the company won't be making any dramatic changes to its hardware.

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Denmark's Spar Nord bank in app dispute with Apple

Danish bank Spar Nord considers legal dispute with Apple over the supplier’s rejection of mobile app

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AMD’s RX Vega Won’t Launch Until Later This Year

AMD has acknowledged it won't ship its consumer Vega GPUs this quarter -- but while it'll demo the cards at Computex, it isn't providing a new ship date.

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Hands On With the DJI Mavic Pro: A Serious Drone That Fits in Your Daypack

If you've ever considered getting started with drone photography, the Mavic Pro is an awesome choice. Both powerful and portable, it puts the best of the Phantom family's features into a unit that folds to the size of a water bottle.

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ET Deals: Save 90% on the System Administration and Infrastructure Management Bundle

If you're looking to reboot your career, taking a handful of online courses is a good way to feel out what interests you, and find something you're really good at. Today, SkillWise is offering up a bundle of SysAdmin and infrastructure management courses, and it's shockingly affordable.

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McAfee researchers test WannaCry recovery method

Although there is evidence that some victims of the WannaCry ransomware attack on 12 May have paid the attackers, there is no evidence that they are getting their data back

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Manx Telecom streamlines its business with VMware NFV

After deploying an NFV platform to replace its IMS service, Isle of Man-based telco has seen substantial improvements to its business agility and processes

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Command and control communications key to detecting threats

Malware command and control (C&C) communications are key to detecting advanced threats, according to a security researcher

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How to simplify IT integration

Pressure on IT is mounting and point-to-point integration does not scale. Opening up APIs is one of the approaches now being considered

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Interview: Claude Moraes, MEP and EU Civil Liberties Committee chair

Claude Moraes, chair of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee shares his views, concerns, reservations about EU-US data transfers, encryption and Brexit

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This Week in Space: From Paranal to Proxima B

In this issue: SpaceX's most recent launch, something unexpected about Mars, and scientific speculation on whether Proxima b might be habitable. Plus, some bonus ESO eye candy.

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Intel Puts the Kibosh on Reports It Will License AMD GPU Technology

Intel has directly refuted rumors of an AMD-Intel graphics team-up. Doesn't look like we'll see the two firms working together any time soon.

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