Festival explores ‘collision between theatre, new technologies and interactive art’
From fake news and the “wild west of the internet” to the threat of AI on the future of jobs, a festival launching this week in Dundee will explore how...
Samsung provides first glimpse of its folding phone
Samsung Electronics unveiled its much-anticipated foldable phone in San Francisco today, urging Android developers to start writing apps for it. The technology promises the screen of a small tablet in...
Digital Technology Awards 2019; looking for the best and brightest tech talent
Entries are now open for the 2019 Digital Technology Awards, with ScotlandIS inviting innovative, exciting and disruptive tech firms to enter. The awards showcase excellence within the industry, rewarding the...
Microsoft CEO praises Scottish housing association’s adoption of fall prevention tech
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has praised a technology that’s being used by a Dumfries and Galloway housing association to prevent falls in elderly residents. Nadella made the comments during...
November’s Deals, Appointments & Product Announcements
DEALS Kumulos, the Dundee-based software company which has developed a platform for managing mobile apps, has completed a £750,000 funding round backed by Mercia Fund Managers, the Scottish Investment Bank, and...
Glasgow’s ‘smart canal’ is a first for Europe
Construction of Europe’s first ‘smart canal’, which will use the 250-year-old Forth & Clyde Canal and modern technology to mitigate flood risk as well as enable regeneration, is underway in...
October’s Deals, Appointments & Product Announcements
Deals 29.10: Technical marketing agency Yard, which has offices in Edinburgh, London, and Cardiff, has hired Edinburgh-based Andragogy to provide AI-based training for staff and increased transparency for clients. 23.10:...
Evolving the world’s ‘fastest and most private’ mobile keyboard
Fleksy is a fun, efficient, and private content access keyboard, perhaps best known as the keyboard used to set the Guinness World Record for the fastest text message ever written....
Tim Berners-Lee launches company to develop ‘the next stage of the web’
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, says it has “evolved into an engine of inequity and division; swayed by powerful forces who use it for their own...
Video game designers tapping into gamers’ emotions to elicit greater empathy and real-world connection
Video game designers are seeking to better understand the emotional responses of gamers in a bid to drive greater empathy and combat the ‘desensitising’ effect of obsessive use. Designers at...
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