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  A British tech and science training firm that recently announced plans to innovate the education metaverse with its own virtual science and tech campus is to help spearhead the UK Government’s response to building a £15 billion UK Science Superpower, as outlined by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the …

OWC’s  Accelsior 8M2 brings speed and storage capacity for 2019 Mac Pros, Windows or Linux computers, and PCIe expansion systems. It utilises the total bandwidth of the latest PCIe technology and has a highly efficient heat dissipating design to provide ultra-reliable speeds up to 26,000MB/s. Creating the fastest PCIe SSD …

John Kolthof, Chief Commercial Officer at CCV GmbH explores the evolution in online payment technology – from RFID to Android For some in the payments industry, talking about “life after contactless” might seem a little presumptuous given that Juniper Research has estimated contactless payments will reach $2.7 trillion in 2021. …

Oscar van den Broek, Managing Director at Nedap Retail discusses the role of RFID in the retail supply chain and its use case towards sustainability. Retailers have historically prioritised building efficient supply chains to meet increasing customer expectations of on-demand, convenient fulfillment. However, the environmental impact of these demands such …

 NortonLifeLock has published the findings of a global study that sheds light on the cyber risks impacting the gaming community. The 2021 Norton Cyber Safety Insights Report: Special Release – Gaming & Cybercrime, conducted by The Harris Poll among more than 700 UK adults who currently play online games, found that over …

Wesley Lynch, CEO of Snapplify shares his top five pieces of tech that he thinks are rather cool ZX Spectrum First of all, a piece of technology that holds a special place in my heart is the ZX Spectrum. This was my first computer – I got it when I …

Emmanuel Addy CEO, and co-founder of The Money Cloud (TMC) discusses how TMC helps with the process of intelligently selecting the best payment provider to suit its customer’s needs. Digital transformation has become the talk of the town ever since businesses, around the world, have begun moving their operations online …

Cloudbox API from Avira OEM, part of NortonLifeLock’s offerings now integrates with Zyxel’s Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) firewalls. Users will benefit from sandboxing architecture, which enables better detection rates and faster response times to zero-day attacks. Alongside sandbox enhancements, users of Zyxel’s ATP firewalls will be able to take advantage …

Acer’s new  Predator Helios 500 notebook now includes up to the new 11th Gen Intel Core i9 processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs, plus premium features like Acer’s 5th Generation AeroBlade 3D Fan Technology for better cooling, DTS:X Ultra audio, Intel Killer E3100 Ethernet Controller, Intel Killer …

With the UK Government estimating that cybercrime costs the UK economy £2.7 billion per year, and phishing attacks acting as the most common cyber threat business face, IT experts have revealed what businesses should look out for and steps they can take in an attempt to prevent the attacks. Last year, …

Brits are keeping hold of dozens of old technology items even after they’ve stopped working, as one in three (33%) say they don’t know how to recycle them and have never done so before, according to new research. In line with its participation to the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), OKdo investigated the extent of e-waste production …

 Pax8 has partnered with CyberCNS to provide managed service providers (MSPs) a multi-tenant vulnerability management platform. By conducting a security assessment and ongoing scanning, the technology identifies critical vulnerabilities in the cloud, on-premises, and work-from-home environments. Pax8 is the first partnership CyberCNS has selected to-go-to market within the IT channel. “A …