Latest articles by Nicole Kobie
Birmingham NHS trust passes medical data to Telefonica without patient consent
News The data was anonymised and used to train Telefonica's mental health predicting AI
Microsoft developer declares it's time to ditch IE for Edge
News IE developer wants users to let the Explorer "retire to the great bitbucket in the sky"
Twilio powers Be My Eyes app to aid the visually impaired
News Cloud communications firm halves response time for app, with 90% of connections made within 30 seconds
UK says it's vital to fairly tax tech giants
News Business minister Andrea Leadsom claims tax ambitions won't affect trade relationship with the US
FireEye expands cloud security with Cloudvisory acquisition
News FireEye picks up cloud visibility firm Cloudvisory and unveils two new Mandiant security products
CityFibre buys TalkTalk's fibre network for £200m
News The acquisition will help CityFibre meet new goal of eight million homes covered by full fibre by 2025
Facebook Libra drives central banks to consider digital currency
News Bank of England and counterparts in Japan, Europe and Canada are joining forces to study how to setup digital currencies
Whatever happened to the 3D printing revolution?
In-depth 3D printers are quietly changing manufacturing, but not in the way many expected.
Barts Health NHS Trust shifts to cloud with Capgemini
News The NHS health trust has signed a three-year partnership to modernise its ICT estate
Gartner: PC shipments to slide again in 2020 and beyond
News After posting growth last year, the PC market will continue to shrink in the next three years, Gartner predicts
Microsoft disagrees with EU facial-recognition ban
News Microsoft president believes it's better to use facial recognition tech to learn how to improve it
Google CEO says it's time to regulate AI
News Sundar Pichai argues that guardrails are needed in an age of deepfakes and facial recognition
Exploited Internet Explorer flaw won't be patched until next month
News Microsoft's legacy browser hit by zero-day strikingly similar to one found in Mozilla's Firefox
EU: Security concerns won't delay 5G
News European commissioner says security measures won't push back 5G networks
Cloud hardware sales slide, but still dominates wider IT market
News IDC predicts cloud infrastructure will overtake traditional hardware sales this year
Amazon will pass on 2% digital tax to sellers
News Amazon says small businesses are likely to bear the brunt of any proposed tax
App data sharing sparks Grindr complaint
News Norwegian consumer group reveals how apps are sharing user data
Google looks to replace third-party cookies in two years
News The online advertising market needs to shift to tracking methods that offer some user privacy, admits Google
NSA hands serious flaw to Microsoft rather than use it
News Patch Windows 10 now, as the NSA has spotted a bug impacting security certificates
Heathrow turns to Thales for anti-drone tech
News Airport buys in drone-spotting system from Aveillant, a Cambridge startup bought by Thales in 2017
Boris Johnson wants US to suggest an alternative to ‘mad’ Huawei 5G tech
News However, the PM doesn't want any decision to impact US-UK relations
Amazon hopes to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon contract
News AWS lawyers ask for injunction against work starting on disputed $10 billion contract
Firefox Voice trial begins in beta
News Mozilla has started sending invites to the beta of its Firefox Voice extension
