Scotland

Skyrora fires up second stage of XL rocket

First stage hot fire and launch from UK soil in 2023

Science18 Aug 2022 | 13

Resurrected Dundee Satellite Station to host quantum Optical Ground Station

Pandemics and university disinterest apparently no match for ingenuity and determination

Science01 Jul 2022 | 11

Aerospace biz Orbex shows off a prototype Prime on its Scottish stand

What goes up will also come down. The question is... how?

Science11 May 2022 | 5

Astra Space to launch satellites from Shetland

Rockets could fly from the UK as soon as next year

Science10 May 2022 | 11

Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'

Academics advised to consider excluding certain terminology for the sake of inclusivity

Software15 Oct 2021 | 306

Magna Carta mayhem: Protesters lay siege to Edinburgh Castle, citing obscure Latin text that has never applied in Scotland

Harry Potter and the Unstoppable Simpletons

Bootnotes18 Aug 2021 | 231

SWAN-song: Scotland re-tenders WAN framework for up to £350m

Capita won current deal worth £325m to run public-sector networks until 2023

Networks18 Aug 2021 | 6

Rural Scotland, Wales to get £1bn from Shared Rural Network pot, promised huge gains in next four... years

Double-digit LTE coverage increases projected for low-population areas

Networks29 Jun 2021 | 3

Green MSP calls on Scottish government to stop spending £4.7m a year with AWS after Amazon 'dumping' allegations

'Public money should be going to small companies and those who need to recover from the pandemic'

Off-Prem26 Jun 2021 | 34

File this next to Mars bars under 'things that should not be deep-fried': Marks & Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar

How was this allowed to happen? Ah right, food delivery app publicity stunt

Bootnotes04 May 2021 | 37

Telecoms shack in the middle of Scotland put up for auction at £7,500

No broadband or bedroom though, so you'll have to sign up for sats or build your own

Bootnotes03 Mar 2021 | 68

Scottish council awards Unit4 £4.75m support and hosting contract as it seemingly runs out of options

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Software06 Jan 2021 | 4

Bork, Beer and Breweries: Three of our favourite things

Bork!Bork!Bork! The pubs may be problematic, but the bork is bountiful at Tennent's

Bootnotes10 Sep 2020 | 17

When low-balled projects go bad: Scottish pensions agency starts £10m procurement to buy the system Capita could not

Cancelled contract saw outsourcing giant paying back £700k

On-Prem03 Sep 2020 | 30

Two out of four ain't bad: It's been a weekend of mixed emotions for rocket fanciers

In brief Also: Scotland edges closer to launch, and ad astra Gerald 'Jerry' Carr

Science01 Sep 2020 | 11

Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles

None of you trained an AI on this data set, right? Right?

Bootnotes26 Aug 2020 | 229

Oh deer! Scotland needs some tech smarts to help monitor its rampant herbivore populations

Drones and satellite imagery probably better than sending out four helicopters at a time – or counting poop

Science17 Jul 2020 | 41

£40m wasna enough for ink and toner cartridges in public sector, says Scottish government

Like most other things these days, COVID-19 blamed for extension to framework agreement

On-Prem06 Jul 2020 | 17

Scottish cops dangle £6m for help understanding 160TB treasure trove of structured and unstructured data

Improved metadata management and easier compliance also required

Software10 Jun 2020 | 27

Yanking on the space supply chain: Rocket Lab goes Interplanetary with Sinclair acquisition

Sadly, no room for a ZX Spectrum on the way to the Moon

Science16 Mar 2020 | 15

Will Police Scotland use real-time discrimination-happy face-recog tech? Senior cop tells us: We won't... for now

After panel urges halt to live matching, top brass says it would only be 'used in an intelligence-led, targeted way'

AI + ML13 Feb 2020 | 24

Good folk of Forfar: Alan Hattel would like you all to know he's not dead despite what it says on his tombstone

So give him a call FFS

Bootnotes23 Jan 2020 | 50

Unlocking news: We decrypt those cryptic headlines about Scottish cops bypassing smartphone encryption

Vid New perspective on FBI, Interpol demands for backdoors

Security17 Jan 2020 | 133

A cheery New Year tale: How the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station might rise once more

Missed The Great Escape this year? How about boffins rescuing sat dishes from the scrappers instead?

Science02 Jan 2020 | 10

Scots NHS symptom checker pings Facebook, Google and other ad peddlers

Exclusive Privacy, what privacy? You can save our lives but you'll never take our data. Oh, damn, you already have

Security11 Jul 2019 | 61

So, that's cheerio the nou to Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: Over 40 years of service axed for the sake of £338,000

Put that on the side of a bus

Science17 Apr 2019 | 56

Capita bags £13.2m Police Scotland deal for crime-snooping tech

Picking up slack from doomed Accenture IT contract i6

Security04 Apr 2019 | 14

Cops use bread and riot shields in desperate bid to contain crazed swan running amok in streets

Greenock, bonnie Scotland, ladies and gentlemen

Bootnotes28 Mar 2019 | 71

Freedom! Diodes Inc saves Scottish fab from closure in £50m buyout

There's life in the old Silicon Glen yet

On-Prem07 Feb 2019 | 13

Scot.gov wins pals with pledge not to keep hold of innocents' mugshots and biometric data

So why can't UK.gov do the same? – campaigners

Security22 Aug 2018 | 17

Jocks in shock as Irn-Bru set to slash sugar and girder content

They may take our lives, but they will never take our fizzy drink

Bootnotes04 Jan 2018 | 147

IT worker used access privs to steal £1m from Scottish city council

And it took the authority seven years to notice

Bootnotes24 Aug 2017 | 58

Jocks' USO block shock: BT's 10Mbps proposals risk 'rural monopoly'

Scottish ministers fear 'hugely negative outcome'

On-Prem09 Aug 2017 | 44

Scottish govt mulled scrapping £178m car-crash IT system

Fujitsu report slams Common Agricultural Payments system

Legal19 Jun 2017 | 26

Police Scotland and Accenture were at odds over ill-fated IT project i6

Audit uncovers rows over what was required, deliverable

On-Prem09 Mar 2017 | 31

Prisoners' 'innovative' anti-IMSI catcher defence was ... er, tinfoil

Exclusive Scottish prison guards left mobile network snooping device in sight of jailbirds

Security01 Mar 2017 | 112

A non-Standards Soviet approved measure of weight? Sod off, BBC!

Our 1,600 KiloJubs beat your 23 Kelpies

Bootnotes06 Feb 2017 | 47

HMRC IT cockup misses nearly 1m Scottish taxpayers for devo PAYE letters

Just the start of £20m IT separation plans

Software20 Dec 2016 | 27

Lowland Scots plunged into panic by marauding ostrich family

Nicola Sturgeon’s home county stalked by angry Struthionforme

Bootnotes27 Jul 2016 | 57

Scots denied Saltire emoji

Unicode Consortium ignores cries for flag emancipation

Bootnotes07 Jun 2016 | 66

Scottish MP calls for drone-busting eagles

Impressed by Dutch anti-UAV squadron plan

Personal Tech04 Feb 2016 | 68

Police Scotland will have direct access to disabled parking badge database

Safeguards? Pff, what an old-fashioned notion

Legal26 Jan 2016 | 145

Telecoms provider Oricom working with NHS fraud officers in ongoing probe

Investigation is not a police matter, says provider

Legal08 Dec 2015 | 15

Shadow state? Scotland's IT independence creeps forth

National ID and police surveillance plans from our friends in the north

Security12 Nov 2015 | 62

Scotsman cools PC with IRN-BRU, dubs it the 'Aye Mac'

PC bathes its bits in Scotland's other famous drink

Personal Tech18 Sep 2015 | 92

More than 13,000 emails swiped in Edinburgh council cyber assault

Brace yourselves for an influx of spam and phishing, you lucky people

Legal08 Jul 2015 | 16

Take that NATS! Jocko IT is also totally rubbish. BOOM!

Forever joined in a union of substandard tech

Channel19 Jun 2015 | 18

Bonny Scottish post-pub nosh neckfiller: Rumbledethumps

Cunning culinary plan involving turnip – from the land of Clan Blackadder

Science03 May 2015 | 21

Scotland to get National ID system 'by the backdoor', campaigners mull challenge

Holyrood votes for 'creeping use' of NHS data

Databases09 Mar 2015 | 62

SCREW YOU, BRITS: We're going through with UK independence ANYWAY – Scotland

Great gov.Scot!

Legal18 Feb 2015 | 80

GRUNTY CHIMPS 'blend in among locals' after moving to Scotland

Moaning foreigners get used to gruff Caledonia

Science06 Feb 2015 | 22

JINGS! Microsoft Bing called Scots indyref RIGHT!

Redmond sporran metrics get one in the ten ring

Legal17 Sep 2014 | 209

Brit telcos warn Scots that voting Yes could lead to hefty bills

BT and Co: Independence vote likely to mean 'increased costs'

Networks15 Sep 2014 | 227

Scottish independence debate: STV player flops under weight of viewers

We CAN'T SEE YOU, Jimmy

Legal06 Aug 2014 | 90

Scotland's BIG question: Will independence cost me my broadband?

Feature They can take our lives, but they'll never take our SPECTRUM

Networks29 Jul 2014 | 204

Psst. Hey, Jock. I got £100m for outsourcers here. Fancy a hit?

Scottish government's giant pile'o'dosh quivers as it awaits MSP bidders

Legal24 Jul 2014 | 4