The government is to roll out passkey technology across its digital services this year as a simpler and more secure alternative to remembering complex passwords. Government websites will start offering the public the ability to use passkeys – cryptographic keys stored on phones or laptops – to log into government websites, including HM Revenue &…

This Tuesday, all eyes will be on Mountain View, California, as Google I/O 2025 kicks off at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. The annual developer conference has served many purposes over the years, as the home to hardware launches and huge software updates, but recently, Google has started to shift the event’s focus almost entirely to artificial…

The areas of artificial intelligence (AI) young people are interested in varies between genders, according to research by InnovateHer. The social enterprise asked more than a thousand students between the ages of 12 and 17 their opinions on AI, and found more boys than girls interested in the subject – 69% and 54% respectively –…

The battle between Wi-Fi operators and telcos over the use of key parts of the coveted 6 GHz wireless frequency range in Europe has taken a significant step, with a collection of leading European telecoms operators urging regulatory action to make available the complete upper 6 GHz band for the mobile comms services they provide.…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set its sights on helping 100,000 people across the UK gain skills in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, having published research that suggests at least one business is adopting AI every minute. The skills push will be made possible by a geographical expansion of the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance,…

SAP’s sales tactic of circumventing IT and enterprise resource planning (ERP) teams to go directly to business heads when selling its Rise cloud ERP product is putting pressure on IT leaders, analyst Gartner has warned. Among the key challenges is SAP’s ambition to reduce customisation of the core ERP system, which simplifies upgrades but limits the…

The next big leap in electric vehicle design might not come from faster charging or better software, but from the battery itself doubling as the car’s frame. Scientists are developing a new kind of structural battery that could dramatically reduce weight while boosting performance, a shift that could reshape EV transportation.Traditional lithium-ion batteries are powerful,…

At its .Next event in Washington DC this week, Nutanix announced its nodes would be able to use Pure Storage FlashArray arrays as external storage, with general availability later this year. That follows a move last year in which it did something similar, but with Dell PowerFlex software-defined scale-out storage. We caught up with Nutanix…

Google I/O 2025 kicks off on Tuesday, and we expect the keynote to focus entirely on AI announcements. Last week, Google unveiled the top Android 16 upgrades, including the new design, better security, and Gemini replacing Google Assistant on every smart device.Google I/O might as well be called Gemini I/O at this point, though. AI…

Last year, Chromecast digital media players became the latest product line to enter the Google Graveyard. Google dumped the brand in favor of its Google TV Streamer, but Walmart appears to be picking up the slack with a new budget streaming device called the Onn 4K Plus.As spotted by 9to5Google, the device launched this week…