Tech

In a sign of the changing times within banking, Royal Bank of Scotland had appointed a chief digital officer.

Growing a customer base, attracting investment and hiring talent are the biggest challenges for Scotland’s fledgling tech businesses, an industry survey has found.

Streaming service NOW TV have stirred up interest in the new series of hit show Westworld by having an artificially intelligent human-like robot interact with punters in a London pub.

Rescuers arrived to transport the marine mammal from the Grangemouth burn to deeper water at Blackness.

A “media engagement platform” aimed at high growth companies has secured five-figure investment from Seed Haus, the Edinburgh-based pre-seed tech accelerator.

Championing the ethical use of data in the wake of the Facebook scandal was one of the successes of a major industry event in Scotland, organisers have said.

Scots are becoming more conscious about the volume of plastic waste we throw away every day.

It’s now ten years and counting for Engage Invest Exploit, Scotland’s largest tech investor event, and the Informatics Ventures team and I are filled with enormous excitement (alongside a few of the usual nerves) ahead of EIE18 at the University of Edinburgh’s McEwan Hall this Thursday.

The Scottish Government has said a planning application near Edinburgh Zoo could be called in over panda health concerns.

A funding programme touted as delivering high-speed broadband to 100 per cent of UK properties has been labelled “grossly unfair” for potentially short changing Scotland.

Workers must be involved in how automation is introduced to avoid potentially severe consequences for them, according to a new report.

Fresh funding has been announced for the development of new treatments for motor neurone disease (MND).

Encouraging the next tech smart generation means starting interest early. Meet Marty, the little interactive robot who teaches kids to code.

By all accounts, Archive On 4 – broadcast at the same time on a Saturday night as Britain’s Got Talent – is a classy programme which takes bits of old audio on a particular theme and builds an interesting and intelligent discussion around them.

Progress on Edinburgh’s Ross Fountain restoration has seen the city’s resident mermaid population increase by eight.

With a UK businessman the latest individual to win the “right to be forgotten” over a past crime, here is a Q&A on Google’s controversial search removals.

Tidal power specialist Atlantis Resources has hailed another milestone for its ground-breaking MeyGen scheme in the Pentland Firth.