With the UK government recently reaffirming its commitment to the Shared Rural Network (SRN) scheme to improve mobile coverage in rural areas and bring 4G connectivity to all parts of the country, 30 government-funded mast upgrades have been activated in rural towns and villages throughout Wales. Announced in 2019, the £1.3bn SRN programme was designed to…

Network and infrastructure management technology provider NetBox Labs has received a significant boost by raising $35m in Series B funding. NetBox Labs is the commercial owner of NetBox, the open source network and infrastructure management stack used by tens of thousands of enterprises, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies, hyper-scalers, artificial intelligence (AI) scale-ups and…

Reddit No, you didn’t actually break Reddit, but there’s a good chance you’re seeing an error message informing that you did right about now. On Wednesday morning at around 11:52 a.m. ET, Reddit began experiencing a widespread outage. Attempting to load any page on the website redirects visitors to a page letting them know that…

Google The future of Google’s Pixel lineup is just around the corner. Made by Google 2025 will officially take place on August 20, according to the invites Google sent out on Wednesday. The event will be held in New York City this time after setting up shop in Google’s hometown of Mountain View, California last…

Summer has arrived, which means hydration should be top of mind every day. If you were intrigued by the arrival of the HidrateSpark Pro 2 smart water bottle earlier this month, you should also be aware of Waterllama’s latest update, which improves the app’s ability to accurately track the amount of water and other liquid…

A lack of opportunity for progression is a main reason why women are leaving the technology sector, according to the Lovelace report. Research by Oliver Wyman and WeAreTechWomen found that between 40,000 and 60,000 women are leaving digital roles each year, whether for other tech roles or to leave tech for good, with a quarter…

Tecno Chinese smartphone vendor Tecno teased the Phantom Ultimate G Fold last week, just ahead of Samsung’s big Unpacked press event of the summer. Tecno’s marketing move was timed to beat Samsung’s own promotional strategy. Rumors said the Korean giant would tease the Samsung Galaxy G Fold trifold at the end of the media event.…

With the Bristol Isambard-AI supercomputer now live, the UK government has unveiled a roadmap to delivering 420 Exaflops of compute power by 2030. The £1bn set aside in the spending review is being used to increase the UK’s compute infrastructure and drive forward artificial intelligence (AI) development. The government’s goal is to reduce the UK’s…

A multinational cyber enforcement operation – led by the European Union’s (EU’s) Europol and Eurojust agencies – has successfully disrupted the NoName057(16) pro-Russian hacktivist cyber crime network responsible for multiple distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.Europol said offenders associated with the network primarily focused on targets in Ukraine but shifted their focus to other European…

With the latest generation of mobile communications networks midway through its technology cycle, timely spectrum allocation and proactive policies are defining Europe’s 5G coverage leaders, according to a study by mobile network analyst Ookla. The study used Speedtest Intelligence data to benchmark progress made in the second quarter of 2025 towards the EU’s flagship 5G deployment objectives,…