![A session at the CogX AI festival in King's Cross, London.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cogx-e1560514955759-400x248.jpg)
The biggest talking points of London Tech Week 2019
Over 58,000 attendees, 35 per cent international delegates, 300+ events, plus for me 28 Tube journeys, 14 speaking slots and 12 media interviews an…
![An Uber self-driving Volvo is on exhibit at the Uber Elevate Summit 2019 in Washington, DC June 12, 2019.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/uber-volvo-e1560527677337-400x248.jpg)
Who’s leading the self-driving car race?
A new Volvo 4×4, a variant of the XC90, will work with an Uber developed autonomous driving system, the two companies announced this week. Ube…
![A general view of the London Skyline on October 27, 2016 in London, England.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/GettyImages-618780304-1-e1522766568280-400x248.jpg)
London Tech Week’s missing voice
This week, the great and good of the tech world landed in London, with over 55,000 tech enthusiasts attending London Tech Week, where prime ministe…
![A woman uses her smartphone while walking past advertising outside a Huawei store in Beijing on January 29, 2019.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/huawei-2-e1548762669613-400x248.jpg)
Huawei urges Verizon to hand over $1bn for patents
Huawei is pressing the American telecoms giant Verizon to start paying for more than 200 of its patents, in a move widely seen as an attempt to hit…
![A scientist walks in a tunnel inside the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), during maintenance works on July 19, 2013 in Meyrin, near Geneva.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/LHC-e1560427545808-400x248.jpg)
CERN prepares open source push following Microsoft price hike
CERN has launched an ambitious drive towards open source software after Microsoft revoked its academic discount and introduced a new contract which…
![The Shadow Robot company's dextrous hand robot holds an apple](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/GettyImages-81001375-e1539184848394-400x248.jpg)
There’s much more to London’s tech sector than AI and fintech
While we witnessed a dip in overall funding at the end of 2018, the UK remains the European destination for capital looking to cash in on high grow…
![A Union Jack flag flies next to European Union flags in front of the European Commission building.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/eu-flag-e1518708454390-400x248.jpg)
Brexit isn’t the biggest threat facing the tech sector
London Tech Week is the largest technology festival in Europe and so, as you would expect, the capital is awash with ideas, demonstrations, announc…
![Britain's Attorney General Jeremy Wright leaves after an emergency cabinet meeting at Downing Street](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/jeremy-wright-e1531226095336-400x248.jpg)
Jeremy Wright launches consultation on National Data Strategy
The government has launched a consultation to help shape its National Data Strategy and unlock the value of datasets held within Whitehall and acro…
![People visit the Vodafone stand at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on February 25, 2019.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/vodafone-mwc-e1551977734503-400x248.jpg)
How telecoms providers are diversifying their business models
Increasingly, telecommunications operators are facing pricing pressures resulting in limited revenue growth from fixed and mobile services. Meanwhi…
![A sign for the Old Street roundabout in Shoreditch, which has been dubbed 'Silicon Roundabout' due to the number of technology companies operating from the area on March 15, 2011 in London, England.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GettyImages-110118042-e1560273218763-400x248.jpg)
“London Tech Week” is a major misnomer
The name could well be somewhat misleading – if you thought that London Tech Week was simply about the capital’s tech community, think again. With …
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Why is Salesforce moving into the blockchain space?
Salesforce, a cloud services provider, used last week’s annual developer conference to announce its entrance into the blockchain platforms space, a…
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The biggest govtech deals of the week (11/6/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. Every week, in partnership with the data …
![IBM Q System One](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ibm-q-e1547224670510-400x248.jpg)
UK government unlocks £153m for quantum computing
Theresa May has unveiled plans to invest £153m in quantum computing in a bid to position the UK as a leader in the burgeoning sector. Speaking at t…
![Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May addresses guests during a speech to mark the start of London Tech Week where she announced that global tech companies plan to invest £1bn in the UK on June 10, 2019 in London, England.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GettyImages-1154975764-e1560170476557-400x248.jpg)
May’s latest commitments to tech are welcome, but the next PM has more work to do
“Let’s come together to create a tech nation that truly is worlds apart”, the Prime Minister Theresa May declared this morning (10 June) at the ope…
![A view over the City of London Skyline at twilight on March 18, 2019 in London, England.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/london-skyline-e1558088535718-400x248.jpg)
Is society at large benefiting from the tech sector’s growth?
Today, London Tech Week returned to the capital. For the sixth time tech leaders joined in celebrating the central role that the sector plays in th…
![Apple CEO Tim Cook (L) and Apple chief design officer Jony Ive (R) look at the new Mac Pro during the 2019 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center on June 03, 2019 in San Jose, California.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GettyImages-1153510742-e1560188880630-400x248.jpg)
Can Apple get away with charging $12,000 for the new Mac Pro?
Apple is pushing prices up with its latest release of the Mac Pro desktop, putting it out of reach of core audiences. Apple introduced “the most po…
![This illustration picture taken on April 19, 2018 in Paris shows apps for Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple (GAFA) on a tablet.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/gafa-2-1-e1559924083237-400x248.jpg)
Why hasn’t the UK produced a tech giant yet?
UK tech has done it again – we continue to dominate Europe in creating the greatest number of billion-dollar tech companies. Our latest Titans of T…
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Infosec 2019: the state of the security landscape
As thousands of security professionals descended on Olympia London for the first day of Infosec this week, vendors were busily announcing fresh res…
![In this photo illustration, the logo of the internet communications company Skype is reflected in the eye of a woman looking at a computer screen, April 13, 2006 in London, England.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/skype-e1559922120542-400x247.jpg)
Skype should be regulated like other telecom providers, rules ECJ
It’s official – again: Across the EU, Skype is indeed a communications service provider, and should, therefore, be subject to the same level of reg…
![A journalists looks down a row of buildings and streets from the observatory of the Tokyo Sky Tree, the world's tallest TV tower and second-highest building, in Tokyo on April 17, 2012.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/tokyo-e1559921756443-400x248.jpg)
Why London-Tokyo tech links must be strengthened ahead of Brexit
Tokyo is the home of some of the world’s greatest tech companies. From Hitachi to Sony, and Panasonic to Rakuten, chances are everyone in the UK ha…
![A laptop showing the Facebook logo is held alongside a Cambridge Analytica sign at the entrance to the building housing the offices of Cambridge Analytica.](http://web.archive.org./web/20190617003054im_/https://tech.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/facebook-ca-e1522315315586-400x248.jpg)
Infosec 19: “Our rules are no longer fit for purpose,” says Jamie Bartlett
It’s 18:50 on 6 June 2029, you’ve just arrived home and you’re about to cook dinner. As you go to open the door of your smart fri…