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Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB reboot

1 month 3 weeks ago
Officials say there's no time to switch suppliers if they want the PNC off life support before March 2026

The Home Office is flinging nearly £40 million in taxpayer cash at PA Consulting to get the big-ticket successor to the Police National Computer (PNC) over the finish line.…

Carly Page

Toys can tell us a lot about how tech will change our lives

1 month 3 weeks ago
LEGO Mindstorms, PlayStation 2 and Furby all resonate today in their own way

Column  Twenty-five years ago this month I published a book called The Playful World that explored a simple idea: that the seeds of the future can be found in the present by considering the dazzling toys we started giving our children at the turn of the millennium.…

Mark Pesce