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Over 90% of Britons Worried About Digital Identity Theft... Read more below 👇
NEW research from Okta, Inc., an independent identity provider, shows that Europeans are increasingly concerned about digital identity theft and the role of AI in making online life less safe. The study, which surveyed over 4,000 consumers in the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, reveals tha...
Half a Million Women Absent from the IT Sector... Read more below 👇
IN a letter to the new technology secretary, the professional body for computing has highlighted that over 500,000 women are ‘missing’ from the UK’s IT sector. Rashik Parmar MBE, CEO of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, congratulated Peter Kyle MP on his appointment to lead the government.....
Banking complaints hit a 10-year high... Read more below 👇
IN the last financial year (2023/24), consumers raised 80,137 cases about banking and payment products – that is a substantial rise from levels the previous year (2022/23) when there were 61,995 complaints. Driving the increase were people’s concerns about their current accounts and credit cards...
Commercial landlord market study confirms that providing EV charging increases... Read more below 👇
OSPREY Charging, the UK’s leading and fastest-growing EV rapid-charging network, has released research confirming that nearly nine in ten UK commercial landlords (87%) surveyed feel that installing public EV charging at their sites is important for attracting new; and retaining existing customers ...
Breakthrough discovery set to improve... Read more below 👇
RESEARCHERS from Optima Partners, Biogen, and the University of Edinburgh have made a significant breakthrough in predicting whether patients are at risk of diseases including Alzheimer’s dementia, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. Using cutting-edge machine learning to analyze vast amounts of m...
AI assurance market could generate over £18bn a year for the UK economy by... Read more below 👇
IN a paper published by the Social Market Foundation and UK Day One Project, analysts from the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) claim that fostering a thriving ecosystem of UK-based firms focused on the safety, security and reliability of AI products could unlock over £18 billion a year ...
Top customer concerns revealed & expert tips for... Read more below 👇
A recent report about consumer behaviour has revealed that almost half (47%) of UK consumers are worried about the takeover of AI and want businesses to prioritise ‘human interaction’ in 2024. AI technologies are reshaping how companies identify and engage with potential customers, offering solu...
Software developers bullish about the impact of... Read more below 👇
CONCERNS over the negative impact of GenAI on software developers are misplaced, according to new research today from software development marketplace Deazy. Despite the rapid advancement of GenAI technologies, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude, which have demonstrated remarkable cap...
Documentary to Explore the Space Economy with... Read more below 👇
FOLLOWING three years of production, a new documentary named FORTITUDE, featuring some of the leading names in the commercial space sector, will premier at the iconic Library of Congress in Washington D.C. on July 16th. The film is set to go live on AppleTV on the same day. “FORTITUDE – Forging ...
Edinburgh-Based Fintech Company, Recast, Secures $5 Million Funding Led By Us-Based Morpheus Ventures
RECAST, the pioneering Edinburgh-based fintech-for-media platform, has today announced the successful closing of a $5 million funding round. This round was led by the prominent US-based venture capital firm Morpheus Ventures, with additional investments from Airstream Ventures and Cooley. In its mis...
Glasgow’s Premier Venture Studio Unveiled to... Read more below 👇
Glasgow’s first Venture Studio, dedicated to developing innovation-driven enterprises, has been launched by the Glasgow City Innovation District (GCID). The project is supported by Glasgow City Council and funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The GCID Venture Studio, ...
Barrier Networks becomes Assured Service Provider for... Read more below 👇
BARRIER Networks, a specialist in managed security services for enterprises and critical national infrastructure organisations, today announced it has been selected as one of the UK’s first Assured Service Providers for the NCSC Cyber Incident Exercising scheme. The Cyber Incident Exercising schem...
Genesis Cloud and Photoroom Announce Partnership to Revolutionise... Read more below 👇
GENESIS Cloud and Photoroom are excited to announce a partnership that will revolutionise AI-powered photo editing. Since its launch in 2019, Photoroom has achieved over 150 million downloads and maintains a 4.8-star rating from over a million reviews. By utilising Genesis Cloud’s top-tier infrast...
Bank launches Growth Guarantee Scheme to help smaller businesses in... Read more below 👇
BRITISH Business Bank has launched its Growth Guarantee Scheme to help smaller businesses in Scotland access the finance they need to invest and grow Further details of the Growth Guarantee Scheme, the successor to the Recovery Loan Scheme, have been published today. The Growth Guarantee Scheme is ...
Video Games Day 2024: Successful Retro Gaming Extravaganza returned to... Read more below 👇
THIS year’s Video Games Day, held at Pittodrie Stadium, saw record-breaking attendance and a plethora of gaming activities, marking it as the most successful event in its seven-year history. Organised by Chris Plant from Total Entertainment Scotland, the event celebrated the evolution of video gam...
Further growth in output noted across Scotland in June, according to latest Royal Bank... Read more below 👇
THE Royal Bank of Scotland Growth Tracker signalled a further rise in private sector output across Scotland in June. The headline Business Activity Index, posted above the neutral 50.0 mark, but ticked down to a five-month low of 51.9, from 55.2 in May, reflecting the recent cooldown in service sect...
How to choose the right software provider. Read more below 👇
THE world of software development offers a complex and constantly shifting opportunity field for companies. The process of choosing the right development partner, like the one on this website, in this sphere, can be compared to the search for a treasure – it is always risky but may bring a lot of ...
Osprey approach to enhance legal software user experience with... Read more here: https://siliconscotland.com/osprey-approach-to-enhance-legal-software-user-experience-with-ux-specialists-full-clarity/
NECSWS and Snook unite to put people-first design at the... Read more below 👇
(NECSWS) and Snook (acquired by NEC in 2019) have come together to launch a pioneering service which helps public sector organisations to improve the design and delivery of digital services to better meet people’s needs. The newly formed division NEC Digital Studio combines the creative problem...
Northcoders Women and Gender Diversity Fund announces five new... Read more below 👇
THROUGH its Women and Gender Minorities Diversity Fund, Northcoders – one of the UK’s leading independent providers of training programmes for software coding and data engineering which operates in Scotland – has announced that it is offering five scholarships for its Part-time Software Develo...
Scottish Microwave tech saves man from double leg amputation... Read more below 👇
A RELIEVED diabetic has had both legs saved after surgeons were on the brink of amputating the limbs below the knees because of a simple verruca which festered. Medics were just hours away from sanctioning the drastic surgery after Barry Mayled’s feet had been plagued by horrific ulcers which stea...
Vodafone & Virgin Media O2 Announce Network-Sharing Partnership for... Read more below 👇
VODAFONE and Virgin Media O2 have entered a long-term network-sharing agreement aimed at transforming the mobile experience for tens of millions of customers across the UK. This partnership is set to enhance rural connectivity, provide improved services, and rebalance the mobile market by establishi...
F1 Governing Body Confirms Data Breach Following... Read more below 👇
THE Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the governing body for car racing events such as Formula 1 and the World Rally Championship, revealed that personal data was compromised due to a phishing attack on two FIA email accounts. “Recent incidents pursuant to phishing attacks has l...
Labour – Tech/cyber security expert reacts... Read more below 👇
Al Lakhani, CEO of IDEE, said: “For all the election noise, cyber security was absent. In a way this is understandable; there are many other social and economic issues to focus on when trying to woo voters. But as the dust settles on this election and a new party comes to power, continuing to over...
Edinburgh-based 1nhaler has appointed two experts in... Read more below 👇
JANE Gaddum, formerly Vice President for emerging brands within global marketing for AstraZeneca, has joined 1nhaler as Board Chair and Non-Executive Director (NxD). Gordon Muirhead, formerly Vice President for new product introduction and technical lead for global supply for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK),....
Coca-Cola signs major tech deal with... Read more below 👇
SYSTAL Technology Solutions, a global managed network, cloud, and security transformation specialist, today announces a multi-year partnership with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), one of the world’s leading consumer goods companies, to drive their network transformation journey across Europ...
British Crowd And Public Safety Tech Company Achieves... Read more here: https://siliconscotland.com/british-crowd-and-public-safety-tech-company-achieves-10m-valuation-in-latest-equity-funding-round-2/
Building Society Chief Elected As President Of... Read more below 👇
PAUL Denton, chief executive of Scottish Building Society has been elected President of The Chartered Banker Institute , the first time in the body’s near 150-year history that a building society representative has held the post. The Chartered Banker Institute is a global industry body headquarter...
Multi-Wing net zero strategy validated by... Read more below 👇
THE SBTi is a collaboration between the CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute (WRI), and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Since its inception in 2015, over 1,000 companies have joined the initiative to set science-based climate targets. The validation of Multi-Wi...
Pneumagen highlights broad-spectrum antiviral activity of... Read more below 👇
PNEUMAGEN, a clinical stage biotech company developing Neumifil (HEX17), a broad-spectrum antiviral, intranasal drug for the prophylaxis and treatment of viral respiratory tract infections (RTIs), announces the publication of new preclinical data evaluating Neumifil in a wide range of viral disease....
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