Ardnamurchan Distillery teams up with tech firm to safeguard against fraud
A Scottish whisky distillery and an ambitious digital tech firm have formed a partnership in order to use Blockchain technology in an effort to safeguard the industry against counterfeits and...
UNICEF and The Data Lab call for collaboration to tackle child obesity
An initiative encouraging public and private sector organisations to share data, with the aim of improving the lives of children, has been launched by The Data Lab and UNICEF. The...
UK Government confirms new innovation centre ‘to put UK at forefront of big data’
The UK Government says that a new £30m National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD) “aims to see the next Google or Facebook” launched here, and help the country capitalise on...
Data laws to be made fit for digital age, says UK Government
The UK Government has outlined “vital protections and flexibilities” for the country’s research, financial services, journalism and legal services as part of its plans to update data protection legislation. The...
Edinburgh-based Codeplay Software to Enable Cars with A.I.
Edinburgh company Codeplay Software has announced it is working with Renesas, a leading Japanese semiconductor company, to enable their next generation of advanced automotive processors. The technology will be included...
How organisations can maximise their chances of developing data science talent
Opportunities and challenges presented to the commercial, public and academic sectors by the increasing need for data science talent will be explored at an event in Edinburgh staged by MBN,...
Building local open data about the community is crucial to success
Local efforts to build and share Open Data about the tech community in Scotland help everyone connect. The Scottish-run website Open Tech Calendar has been at the heart of that,...
Data changes everything
March 2017 will see The Data Lab bring the UK’s first ever week-long data science festival to ScotlandScotland is poised to lead a data revolution and DataFest17 will bring some...
Making a point, 15bn times
A huge cloud of data is generating a 3D world of Charles Rennie MackintoshOn the morning of Saturday 24 May 2014, as firemen watched over the smouldering remains of The...
The real deal in virtual expertise
Scotland is nurturing global players in virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligenceMartin McDonnell remembers being lifted as a child so that he could reach to play on Atari’s arcade...
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