While start-up tech companies in Silicon Valley, London, New York and Berlin saw a 10% plus growth in VC money this year, the discrepancies between the four centres were large, reports the New York Times.

In the connected world of the internet of things (IoT), like in the defence industry, one attack could be fatal. Security thinking needs to be turned on its head, and IoT endpoints and routers need to be designed to resist the next attack rather than patched to prevent the last one. If the right technology is applied when the network ...

IBM has used phase change memory to build network of 913 neurons with 165,000 inter-connections, reports the MIT Technology Review.

Iliad, the French provider of telecommunications services, launches a cloud service next month based on ARM-based servers which it has built in-house using Marvell chips.

IBM is researching the application of cognitive computing to analyse dermatological images of skin lesions with the goal of assisting clinicians in the identification of various cancerous disease states. Cognitive computing technology can be used to learn and identify specific patterns in medical images, has the potential to increase the number of cases detected and help clinicians make earlier diagnoses. ...

Drones were the Christmas craze this year and a Kickstarter smartphone-controlled drone project with a $125 million project goal has raised $1.35 million.

Thanks to Strumpshaw, Tincleton and Giggleswick for this one – the ten smuttiest place names in the UK:

Plessey’s Year Of Expansion was the headline, 53 years ago, in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18th 1961.

For the past 30 years, speech recognition has been one of those technologies which will be cracked in the next three years.

The AA has warned against connecting cars to the Internet because of the dangers of hackers stealing cars or hacking into their control systems.