Harry Lye
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16 Sep
Home Office looks at replacing police helicopters with drones
The UK Home Office is assessing how drones could be used by the National Police Air Service (NPAS) in the place of helicopters for aerial police work.
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11 Sep
UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency trials drones for search and rescue
The UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has demonstrated the use of an Elbit Systems UK drone for maritime search and rescue flights in the UK.
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3 Sep
Campaigners “should not be working at the BBC”: Director-general
Tim Davie, the new BBC director-general, has issued a warning to staff to clean up their use of social media in his introductory speech to the organisation.
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1 Sep
Ex-GCHQ strategy lead appointed to head UK Civil Service
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed Simon Case, former director of strategy at the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), as cabinet secretary and head of the UK’s Civil Service.
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21 Aug
AI aces human F-16 pilot in DARPA’s AlphaDogfight
An AI-controlled virtual F-16 yesterday beat a human F-16 pilot 5-0 in a virtual dogfight hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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24 Jun
Self-driving hospital beds and social distancing sensors: Covid-19 innovation
Digital Concepts Engineering (DCE) has used its experience in the military, agricultural and nuclear industries to repurpose its tech with the aim of responding to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, and the result is self-driving hospital beds designed to safeguard medical staff, and social distancing sensors for unmanned vehicles.
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21 May
Coronavirus case studies: How Masks For Docs is getting PPE where it’s needed
Since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, a continual challenge has been getting personal protective equipment (PPE) into the hands of frontline medical workers who need it.
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17 Feb
Tobias Ellwood: Five Eyes should develop Huawei alternative
MP and Chair of the Commons Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood has said that the Five Eyes intelligence allies should come together to develop an alternative to Huawei.
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15 Jan
WEF president: Climate crisis inaction like “moving around deckchairs on the Titanic”
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has listed the climate crisis, digital threats, and geopolitical turbulence as notable risks in its 2020 Global Risks Report, with the group's president Borge Brende comparing inaction on the climate crisis to “moving around the deckchairs on the Titanic”.
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14 Jan
Johnson on Huawei: “What’s the alternative?”
The UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson today said that he would not risk Britain’s national security when deciding on whether to allow Huawei equipment on the 5G network, but pressured critics of the Chinese tech company to suggest what other equipment the UK could use.
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2 Dec
English Councils struggling with IT accessibility
Freedom of Information requests have revealed that while 95% of English Councils have disabled employees, only 38% have official digital inclusion and IT accessibility strategies in place.
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26 Nov
VR for cows: Mooove over Oculus Rift, the cows are in town
A Russian farm has put virtual reality (VR) headsets on cows to see if they yield better milk.
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11 Oct
MPs call for strict commercial drone regulations
Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee has published its report on commercial drones, calling on the government to provide a clear "vision" for the safer use of drones through regulations and criminal penalties for their misuse.
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26 Sep
Boris Johnson’s bizarre guide to the future where tech reigns supreme
At the United Nations in New York, prime minister Boris Johnson used his inaugural address to provide an eyebrow-raising glimpse of the future, one where technology reigns supreme.
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5 Sep
@Boris Johnson has left the group: WhatsApp in Westminster
From fake news to Facebook, WhatsApp has attracted the media spotlight for a number of reasons.
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16 Aug
Take a seat: The mental health chatbots encroaching on the therapist’s couch
Chatbots are everywhere.