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12 Jan 2021

CES 2021: The show must go on

The largest and most prestigious technology conference of the year, CES, has rolled around again.

12 Jan 2021

How simple digital games soothed us in 2020

We tried Zoom quizzes, but that could only last so long. Instead, the gentle silliness and fun of simple digital games, are becoming the latest trend.

18 Dec 2020

What’s changed in digital and tech in 2020

Early in December, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet opined that some years are “so eventful they are regarded as pivotal in history” and said 2020 will be considered one of those fateful years.

09 Dec 2020

Investing in investment: the success of Moneybox

Despite being in a crowded and competitive market, Moneybox is doing well and growing fast.

09 Dec 2020

Matillion: Rolling in Data

According to a recent study by Matillion, nearly half the time spent on data analytics projects is spent preparing the data, rather than doing the important strategic work of actually analysing it.

09 Dec 2020

Up a creek with a Paddle: SaaS support

Paddle recently received £52 million in series C funding, after four years of big growth. Even doubling their annual revenue growth in the last year alone.

11 Nov 2020

Why companies like Tessian are thriving in the pandemic

Companies have struggled with cybersecurity for many years now and its a problem which is only exacerbated through remote working.

11 Nov 2020

Mindful Chef: a tech deal driven by covid-19

Good news this week for South London-based meal kit delivery service Mindful Chef, which was recently bought by food giant Nestlé. The deal is another sign that tech-driven businesses are thriving where others are not.

30 Oct 2020

TikTok flourishes, Quibi falls: a tale for tech

TikTok is utterly dominating its market, is growing rapidly and is the social media network of the moment.

23 Jun 2020

Humanising technology to better understand our emotions

Despite the significant leaps in the quality of online interaction in making us feel we're in the same room, one concern seems to be gaining traction as we move towards our fourth month of lockdown: how will this change face-to-face interaction IRL?

05 Jun 2020

Insights into the Stack Overflow 2020 Developer Survey

Hello everyone, welcome to more of my words. This time round, I’m taking a deep dive into the Stack Overflow 2020 Developer survey.

26 May 2020

Cybersecurity’s future in the job market

With the public now far more aware of cybersecurity issues than they were in the past, maybe there’ll be enough people to meet demand and fill the skills gap.

04 May 2020

AI virus prediction software: Utilise the signal in the noise

There's been much talk of the various AI virus prediction software platforms that predicted the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. One platform that's received a lot of attention is Bluedot, a Toronto based startup.

01 May 2020

Covid-19: why cybersecurity matters

The covid-19 pandemic has brought with it many changes major challenges for businesses and workers. One such challenge is cybersecurity.

27 Apr 2020

How the technology industry is shining during covid-19

COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on the world economy, laying whole industries to waste, but as always Technology is providing a glimmer of hope.

20 Mar 2020

Product Management: A Day in the life

We’ve collated the product management expertise that we’ve gathered over the years to help give a picture of a day in the life of a product manager. We’ve tailored our career advice to two different ends of the scale - to show what life is like as a product manager or product owner in both startups and big companies.

06 Mar 2020

A career in Product Management: top tips

Looking for advice on how to pursue a career in product management? Look no further. We sat down with Carlos Silva - a previous VP of Product at Jinn to get his expert tips and career advice for life as a product manager.

12 Feb 2020

Fintech Startups: How money is (still) changing

Fintechs and banking disruptors have been on the scene for some years now, and have arguably totally changed the way we spend, lend and borrow money.

30 Jan 2020

What developers are thinking about in 2020

There’s a lot of developers out there, with a lot of different skillsets, wants and needs, and companies also have a diverse and sometimes very specific set of needs - so it’s important for us to look at the market and research and see what developers’ priorities are.

30 Jan 2020

Gartner predicts device usage for 2020

Technology analysts at Gartner have issued their predictions for computer device usage in the next year, saying that 5G will boost mobile usage but that PCs are set to hit a slump.

22 Jan 2020

The developing world of climate change and technology

This week, Microsoft made a big announcement about its plans to tackle climate change. It said that by 2030, it will be carbon-negative - meaning that its net carbon emissions will be less than zero.

13 Jan 2020

What’s hot at Las Vegas’ CES this year

Once again, the Las Vegas Convention Center plays host to the world’s largest consumer technology show - CES.

09 Jan 2020

The Major Technology predictions for 2020

It’s worth considering what the major changes in technology will be in 2020, and what both consumers and businesses can expect to witness.

19 Dec 2019

What software engineers can expect in 2020

Software engineering is now a highly-important role for employers to fill, given the necessity of the skills involved in running a modern business.

19 Dec 2019

A decade of Tech – tumult and change

It’s fair to say a lot has happened across the past decade and in a lot of different fields. Everything from politics to business has changed almost beyond recognition, and a lot of the changes are thanks to technology.

29 Nov 2019

Another big bank blockchain scheme flourishes

Big news in the blockchain world this week as Reuters reports on a new project at HSBC. The banking giant told Reuters that it plans to move billions of dollars worth of assets onto a blockchain system by next March.

29 Nov 2019

The encryption equation

We want our information and messages to remain private - that’s a proposition almost universally agreed upon. At the same time, we want to stay safe from crime and give law enforcement the tools they need to protect us from harm.

18 Nov 2019

The better side of artificial intelligence in China

Artificial intelligence in China has received more than its fair share of criticism. The government regime is considered by many to be oppressive and many western observers suggest that it does not give its citizens proper human rights.

18 Nov 2019

The data story behind Google and Fitbit

Data. It’s all around us. It drives business decisions, it’s many companies’ largest asset and the subject of massive controversy.

31 Oct 2019

Google earnings and the search for constant growth

There is a recent trend in the world of finance and commerce - and more particularly in the world of tech, to favour constant growth over any other metric of success

28 Oct 2019

AI at work:
friend or foe?

It’s not enough to have to fend off your fellow man or woman - you’ve now got to take on computers, too.

28 Oct 2019

Breaking up: the fintech partnership problem

It is a piece of conventional wisdom in the world of fintech - and startups more generally - that a sign of success is the new wave forming partnerships with the old guard.

20 Sep 2019

National Coding Week: learning the trade, doing the job

National Coding Week is a charitable attempt to get more people into the digital world by giving them the skills to get into coding.

20 Jun 2019

London Tech Week: the big issues

Last week London held the annual London Tech Week - the annual festival celebrating and promoting everything that the UK’s capital has to offer the tech market.

05 Jun 2019

Removing the roadblocks: how blockchain is developing

It’s time to take another look at how the much-hyped distributed ledger technology - blockchain is coming along.

31 May 2019

Fintech, Gen Z’s and customer-obsession

Rather than borrowing from the “bank of mum and dad”, 18 to 22-year-olds have utilised modern finance apps and technology to help them build savings that past generations did not have at that age.

23 May 2019

Siri-s business: the problem with voice assistants

A recent study by the United Nations cultural body UNESCO has called for changes to be made to voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, which use female voices.

16 May 2019

The inner workflow of Amazon

A fascinating article in technology news publication The Register revealed earlier this week the inner workflow of Amazon.

09 May 2019

The Chinese ‘downturn’: the working life

The massive growth of the Chinese economy as a whole has given onlookers plenty to talk about.

03 May 2019

Location, location, location: where tech companies go

There are innovative tech companies all over the world and everyone knows it. But there is also a huge gravitational pull from the Valley.

26 Apr 2019

Policing tech giants: No harm, no foul, no Social Media?

The UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport proposed a new watchdog that will oversee tech giants, with the threat of sanctions for executives and big fines for breaches of rules.

26 Apr 2019

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019: From a consultants perspective

I’ve had a read over of the annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey – the ‘largest and most comprehensive survey of people who code around the world’.

23 Apr 2019

The skills gap-gap: what does cybersecurity really need?

I recently took to LinkedIn to air my views on one of the most talked-about topics in the world of tech: the cybersecurity skills gap.

05 Apr 2019

Cloud Computing: The AWSome power of cloud

Cloud Computing Dominator AWS held its Santa Clara Summit last week, and used the event to announce a number of changes to its existing product portfolio as well as some new bits and pieces, too.

29 Mar 2019

Cybersecurity: The scourge of supply-chain attacks

Earlier this week cybersecurity company Kaspersky wrote a blog post about its discovery of a new supply-chain attack, on laptop maker Asus.

21 Mar 2019

Health, Wealth & Tech: An intro to the health tech startup scene

Given how much attention the world of startups gets in general, it’s a little odd that literal life-saving technology comes near the bottom of the pile.

14 Mar 2019

Artificial Intelligence: Let’s Get Ethical, [and Technical]

Last week, artificial intelligence technologist Liz O’Sullivan wrote an article for New York-based American Civil Liberties Union outlining why she quit her job at AI company Clarifai as a moral protest.

08 Mar 2019

Singapore: leading the way with autonomous vehicles

This week, Swedish carmaker Volvo brought reporters and industry insiders to the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) campus in Singapore to unveil its new autonomous bus, which it says is the first of its kind in the world.

05 Mar 2019

MWC 2019: Mobile World Congress, Tech & The Rest

The European 2019 edition of the Mobile World Congress - now just ‘MWC’ - hit Barcelona last week, with thousands descending on the Spanish city.

22 Feb 2019

A dramatic data dump

Last week technology news publication The Register revealed the location of nearly 620 million sets of personal data that had been stolen from various websites.

18 Feb 2019

The booming Fintech market – where’s the money going

Recent research by technology mergers and acquisitions advisory firm Hampleton Partners has found that $31 billion was invested in the Fintech market in 2018 - the highest level on record.

13 Feb 2019

The future of 2019,
according to Gartner

Gartner last week predicted that IT spending will hit $3.8 trillion in 2019, saying that spending should rise in spite of global geopolitical uncertainties.

25 Jan 2019

GDPR: The repercussions of Google’s monster data fine

The French data protection regulator CNIL fined Google earlier this week, to the tune of £44 million.

22 Jan 2019

The Future of AI and Diversity in Recruitment

AI could prove to be a force for good in terms of improving diversity, inclusivity and employee engagement.

21 Jan 2019

On a cliff edge: the next stage for cloud computing

Distributed cloud computing, which was developed as a concept in universities more than 20 years ago, has really come into its own in the last 5-10 years.

15 Jan 2019

Virtual Reality comes to life

This week is a big week for the technology world, as thousands descended upon Las Vegas for the biggest technology trade show in the world - the CES.

15 Jan 2019

Smart Farming: Using data to improve food production

Bees. They terrify millions, are the subject of a great movie and an even greater meme, are integral to food production around the world, and now, they are the latest tool in a growing arsenal of data collection and Internet of Things devices.

13 Dec 2018

Technology: The Kubernetes crescendo #KubeCon

The Linux Foundation’s KubeCon and CloudNativeCon conference is happening this week, drawing thousands of “adopters and technologists” to Seattle from Tuesday to Friday. - [...]

11 Dec 2018

Hotel hell: Marriott’s data breach

Last week Marriott, the world’s biggest hotel company, announced that its subsidiary Starwood had suffered a major data breach that has led to 500 million users having their data leaked, over a four year period since 2014.

03 Dec 2018

Cybersecurity is Vital in the 4th Generation of Espionage

The UK is readying itself for the ‘fourth generation of espionage’ according to the head of MI6, Alex Younger, in order to cope with the growing ‘hybrid threats’ of cyberattacks, fake news and interference in domestic politics.

30 Nov 2018

Is there life on Elon Musk’s SpaceX Mars Colony?

- - - The 47-year-old Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is 70 per cent sure he will live on Mars soon. [...]

30 Nov 2018

Salaries: The tech talent market in the UK and Ireland

Earlier this year, Computer Weekly released its annual salary survey for those working in technology in the UK and Ireland. As Redcat has recently produced an infographic illustrating some statistics of the Front-End Development market, alongside consultant Jack Prior’s commentary, now seems like as good a time as any to discuss tech salaries in the UK.

30 Nov 2018

Virtual Warfare: Microsoft equips US Army with HoloLens

- - - - - Microsoft is selling the US Army 100,000 HoloLens mixed reality headsets for infantry use in [...]

23 Nov 2018

How video manipulation and face mapping are changing the world

The BBC, one of the most trusted sources of news in the world, recently raised the issue of video manipulation and face mapping as part of the growing rise in so-called “fake news”.

23 Nov 2018

The changing uses of blockchain

It was reported in the Financial Times last week, that Banking giant JP Morgan Chase, is leading something called the Interbank Information Network (IIN), a project that uses blockchain technology to improve the efficiency of cross-border currency transfers.

23 Nov 2018

Should tech giants be boycotted over terror threats?

MPs are urging tech giants, including Amazon, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube, to shape up or risk being boycotted from major advertising deals from global brands.

19 Nov 2018

Google Glass 2 coming for business users

Remember Google Glass? That augmented reality (AR) bit of kit that everyone got over-excited about a few years back? Well it looks like Google Glass 2 is on the way soon, though it’s being developed strictly for business users, according to latest reports.

13 Nov 2018

Front-End Development Market Overview | INFOGRAPHIC

At RedCat, we think it’s important to give both the candidates and clients we work with a genuine overview of the market. I know everyone says ‘oh we can tell you exactly what’s going on out there’, well in this case, the proof is in the pudding.

13 Nov 2018

Technology: Would you be happy to be microchipped at work?

British companies are looking at potential ways of tracking employees with the use of embedded Microchips in their skin, according to latest reports.

12 Nov 2018

World’s first AI news anchor goes on-air in China

Fake news? No. It’s just the world’s first artificially intelligent virtual news anchor reading out the news in China.

08 Nov 2018

Apple’s 5G iPhone looking likely by 2020

iPhone fans have a shade under two years to wait until Apple finally embraces the next-gen superfast 5G standard, according to latest reports from leading tech sites this month.

08 Nov 2018

How life is changing for Big Tech

The big four tech firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, known to some as GAFA, are seeing their unbridled growth and huge disruptive power slowly come back to cause problems.

02 Nov 2018

Big Tech under fire from Tony Blair and Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web and Tony Blair, the disgraced former Labour Prime Minister have both hit out at big tech this week (by which we generally mean Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple).

01 Nov 2018

Why Jeremy Clarkson still hates electric cars

In what is perhaps the least surprising electric cars (EV) news of the month, it appears that Jeremy Clarkson still has a bit of a problem with the UK’s EV-charging infrastructure.

01 Nov 2018

Diversity in Tech: Making Tech A More Diverse Place

Earlier this week, chipmaking giant Intel released its diversity report for 2018, where it found that it had hit its target, two years early.

25 Oct 2018

Self-Driving Cars: Move Fast and Break Things

In a new development in the world of self-driving cars, cab firm Addison Lee this week put a date on its self-driving taxi plans, saying that it wants to roll out a fleet by 2021. Though there are all sorts of self-driving car developments going on, it’s a bold move to put a hard deadline on such a project.

22 Oct 2018

Volkswagen takes on Tesla: opening massive Chinese EV factory

- - - - - Volkswagen has signalled its intention to take on the mighty Tesla in the electric vehicles [...]

22 Oct 2018

Autonomous Revolution: Driverless Addison Lees to hit London in 2021

The autonomous car revolution is almost upon us, with London’s leading private hire company Addison Lee announcing plans today to launch a driverless taxi service in London in 2021.

18 Oct 2018

Data Centres, Governments and secret clouds

Late last week, Wikileaks revealed the previously-unknown locations of Amazon Web Services’ data centres around the world.

17 Oct 2018

Interpretable Deep Learning with R, Keras and LIME

Yesterday we had the pleasure of partnering with non-profit organisation R-Ladies and luxury fashion ecommerce platform Farfetch to bring you Interpretable Deep Learning, with Keynote speaker Dr Shirin Glander.

16 Oct 2018

Startup of the week: MakerPhone

Why bother wasting all of your salary on a shiny new iPhone XS? Why not save all that dosh and have more fun making your own phone?

11 Oct 2018

The Bloomberg fallout

- - - - - In a crowded field of huge cybersecurity news, one of the biggest stories of recent [...]

08 Oct 2018

Finnish startup develops ‘human-eye resolution’ VR

- - - - - Siemens has invested in a new Finnish virtual reality startup that is aiming to create [...]

03 Oct 2018

“I created a monster” says Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the celebrated British inventor of the world wide web, has admitted this week that he has created a monster.

28 Sep 2018

Brighton is home to the UK’s new 5G testbed

The 5G era is set to arrive in the UK in 2019, with Brighton being the latest British city to be home to a 5G ‘testbed’ this month.

26 Sep 2018

Virtual reality browsing: Firefox web browser breaks cover

- - - - - Is the future of the web a virtual reality one? Mozilla certainly seems to think [...]

26 Sep 2018

Businesses helping businesses: Microsoft & Adobe Partner

This week Microsoft announced a partnership with Adobe and SAP called the Open Data Initiative, designed to help businesses make better use of their customer data.

26 Sep 2018

An Alexa Microwave?! What’s next for Amazon in the smart home?

You probably saw that Amazon has upgraded and added to its wide range of Alexa voice-controlled speakers and other products over the last week. But did you notice that it also released an Alexa controlled microwave?

19 Sep 2018

Linux: The taming of Torvalds’ temper

On Sunday 16 September something unprecedented happened in the open source community. Linus Torvalds, the man behind Linux, apologised for his past behaviour and said he was going to work on being nicer.

18 Sep 2018

AI and Robotics to ‘double the jobs they destroy’ in next decade

Kicking against the grain of the mainstream press coverage we see about the future impact of AI and robotics, a new World Economic Forum (WEF) report claims that the rise of machines might well lead to 133 million jobs worldwide in the next decade.

14 Sep 2018

Using AI to recreate the past in Virtual Reality

While (too) much of the discussion around artificial intelligence or AI tends to focus on how many human jobs are going to be lost to machine-learning equipped robots in the future, we hear far less about the massive benefits that AI is going to bring to our understanding of history.

10 Sep 2018

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