New research has found that although cyber has been rated the scarcest technology skill in the world, pay rises for professionals in the field are stalling.
The Cabinet Office has spent £274,000 on cyber security training for staff in the most recent financial year. Spending jumped by 483 per cent compared to the previous year, when only £47,000 was spent on cyber training.
Vodafone will become the exclusive mobile network partner for Dixons Carphone, which owns Currys PC World and Carphone Warehouse. The exclusive, multi-year deal will see Vodafone mobile plans sold across Dixons Carphone’s 300 stores.
Google is delaying plans to phase out third-party cookies on Chrome. The technology giant said that while there has been considerable progress made with the initiative, it has "become clear that more time is needed to get the plans right."
IBM has developed a new hybrid cloud automation software designed to simplify 5G adoption. On Monday, IBM announced that alongside Red Hat, Verizon had chosen the company to help build an open hybrid cloud platform with automated operations.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it has bought software company Wickr. Wickr, founded in 2012, has its own end-to-end encrypted messaging technology.
The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that Deliveroo riders are self-employed in an appeal lodged by the IWGB union. The judgment represents the fourth court decision that has determined the company’s food delivery riders are not employees, following a ruling by the Central Arbitration Committee and two decisions made by the High Court.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened a formal investigation into Amazon and Google over concerns they have not been doing enough to combat fake reviews on their sites.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has restored the missing edges of Rembrandt’s 1642 painting The Night Watch using artificial intelligence. In 1715 the edges of the painting were cut off to be able to fit through doors at Amsterdam’s city hall.
John McAfee, the creator of computer security software McAfee, has reportedly been found dead in a prison cell in Barcelona. The news comes just hours after a Spanish court ruled that the anti-virus entrepreneur should be extradited to the US to face tax evasion charges.
Over a third of UK small and medium sized businesses think that the pandemic has been a positive catalyst for change as digital skills soared during lockdown, according to a PayPal report.
WeRide has said that it will deepen development with Nissan on autonomous driving tech. The China-based autonomous driving start-up raised $310 million earlier this year, valuing the business at $3.3 billion.
Resolution Games, the first VR games developer to agree to trial Facebook's ads, has backed out after receiving negative feedback from players. This week Facebook said that it planned to test adverts in Oculus VR games, starting with shooter game Blaston, which was the only game listed to be involved with the trial.
Amazon destroys millions of items of unsold stock every year, much of which is new and unused, according to an investigation by ITV News. Undercover footage showed millions of products being destroyed in the e-commerce giant’s Dunfermline warehouse, just one of 24 fulfilment centres operating in the UK.
The government has set out plans to establish a new national science and technology council chaired by the prime minister. The council will aim to establish strategy on how science and tech can tackle societal challenges.