Tech

Budget Back To Work Policies To Cost £70,000 Per Job

The chancellor's schemes will only recruit small numbers at a high cost per job, the OBR forecasts. Read more

John Lewis Axes Staff Bonus And Plans To Cut Jobs

The department store operator and Waitrose owner reports losses in "a very tough year". Read more

UK Ministers Banned From Using Chinese App TikTok On Government Phones

The social media firm has strongly denied passing users' information to the Chinese government. Read more

Credit Suisse Emergency Loan Reassures Investors

Central bank funding calms jitters as FTSE 100, European indices and Credit Suisse shares rise after falls. Read more

Budget: UK Chip Strategy Still Nowhere To Be Seen. Money For Quantum, AI? Sure

Um, folks? All this tech kinda needs semiconductors The UK government is upping investment in quantum by £2.5 billion ... Read more

TikTok Says US Threatens Ban If China Stake Not Sold

TikTok, owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, says it has been contacted about a change in ownership. Read more

The Stonehenge Of PC Design, Xerox Alto, Appeared 50 Years Ago This Month

We all owe three things to this pioneering machine – two more than you might think Feature  Although it only gets cr... Read more

Immigration Rules Relaxed For Builders And Carpenters

Construction workers are added to list but hospitality sector not included in government review. Read more

Google Taps Fastly To Make Cookie-free Adtech FLEDGE Fly

Online ad colossus hopes it can still make money when users want privacy Google says it has partnered with Fastly, a co... Read more

Workers Don't Want These Humanoid Robots Telling Them To Be Happy

Shocking! Talking robots designed to interact and help boost employees' moods at work are more effective if they don't ... Read more

Virgin Orbit To Pause All Operations From Thursday

The decision comes after the failure of the first ever satellite mission launched from the UK. Read more

Why Sleeper Trains Are Being Revived Across Europe

A number of rail operators are launching new sleeper train services across the continent. Read more

Cigarette Prices Rise But Draught Beer Duty Is Frozen

Duty for draught pints is frozen but the average price of a pack of 20 cigarettes rises to £14.39. Read more

Biden Wants To Claw Back, Flog Off 1.5GHz Of Spectrum

Good news, unless trees or walls get in the way Wireless spectrum is a finite and tightly regulated resource and that m... Read more

Free Childcare Expanded To Try To Help Parents Back To Work

Once a child is nine-months-old parents in England will be able to access up to 30-hours of free childcare. Read more