The Bank of England is embarking on a massive digital transformation, awarding contracts worth £180 million to a consortium of 16 tech and consulting firms. The seven-lot deal covers everything from infrastructure to recruitment and was finalized in October 2025.
Barclays has made its first direct investment into stablecoin technology, taking a stake in US startup Ubyx. This move signals a strategic pivot by traditional finance towards the underlying infrastructure of digital money, not just the assets themselves.
After writing that return-to-office mandates are about control, not productivity, a journalist joined a team with a truly optional office. The experience changed his perspective on what an office can be, but not his view on forced RTO.
Samsung is caught in a classic tech industry bind. While its memory division is raking in cash due to a global shortage, its mobile division is facing a tough decision: raise prices on its next flagship phones or eat into its own profits.
A Reddit user and recent Linux convert has built a full-featured sticky notes application that runs entirely in the terminal. It features color coding, priorities, search, and auto-save. You can install it with a few simple commands.
For the first time, scientists have used polarized X-rays to study a white dwarf star in a binary system. The data reveals the precise geometry of how it devours gas from its companion. This new technique is like putting on 3D glasses for the universe’s most violent events.
The big trend at CES 2026 wasn’t just smarter appliances. It was a wave of AI-powered companion robots and pets, like Loona’s DeskMate and Ecovacs’s LilMilo, designed for emotional connection over practical utility. This signals a deliberate shift as companies repurpose social robot concepts from As
Microsoft started 2026 with a broken Excel function. The StockHistory feature, which pulls market data, failed for days, showing connection errors to users trying to check their portfolios after the holiday break.
A single comment from Nvidia’s CEO at CES sparked a major sell-off in data-center cooling stocks. Jensen Huang suggested new chips won’t need complex chillers, hitting companies like Johnson Controls and Modine Manufacturing hard.
ASUS is launching its most powerful gaming desktop yet at CES. The ROG G1000 packs top-tier hardware into a flashy chassis featuring spinning holographic fans and massive cooling capacity.
