Tamlin Magee
Group Production Editor, UK
Tamlin is the group production editor for IDG UK. He has previously covered a wide range of beats at a variety of publications, from European channel markets, enterprise cloud and privacy, to architecture, design, film and music. He is particularly interested in the intersection between technology, the political sphere and the day-to-day.
Stansted CTO plans "utopian vision" of a totally connected airport
The first phase of an analytics visualisation effort that pulls in Stansted Airport's data feeds, combined with open data from other sources, could provide the site's owners with a blueprint to market their product to other transport...
Huawei controversies timeline
Chinese telecommunications and consumer electronics manufacturer Huawei has found itself at the centre of a long list of controversies in recent months. Far and away the leader in 5G network infrastructure, the company's business...
Culture Crossover: Takumi, a 60,000 hour long film
A film directed by Clay Jeter and sponsored by Lexus seeks to place the extreme craftsmanship of Japan's 'takumi' in the modern era, raising questions about narrative, and work, in the age of automation
How the ILL uses deep learning to find citations of its experiments
The Institute Laue-Langevin has a policy of making its data open - and it is using deep learning techniques to surface papers citing the data from its experiments.
Manchester City Council CIO Bob Brown on how to make a city smart
Since 2016's ICT strategy the local authority has reshaped its infrastructure and has some soaring aspirations for the city.
How the BFI is saving Britain's film heritage from being "stranded in analogue"
The British Film Institute's Stephen McConnachie explains how the organisation is digitising and maintaining hundreds-year-old film, and how it's saving moving images from obsolescent machinery
British Airways' summer of failure
The news that British Airways suffered an enormous data breach affecting almost 400,000 customers including personal and financial details is just the latest in a series of IT chaos that has plagued the airline this summer. Just what...
How open source supports CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Tim Bell talks with Computerworld UK about the future of CERN on open infrastructure platform Openstack
How a British SMB survived a nightmarish cryptolocker ransom attack
With help from Ignite a small online trader was able to get back up and running within an hour
What's behind the strike wave at Fujitsu Services?
Unite members at Fujitsu Services UK are fighting to defend their jobs from a Europe-wide restructuring programme called Agenda 2020 amidst allegations of unfair discrimination and targeting of union officials. Here's a timeline of...
Theresa May's China trade mission suggests closer surveillance links
In surveillance, Britain and China have much more in common than people might realise.
Philip Hammond's 2018 spring statement in tech
The spring statement from Philip Hammond touched lightly on technology and the fourth industrial revolution
West Yorkshire Police: fingerprint scanners will help human rights
The chief inspector for digital policing said that he's "not sure" the project should be seen as controversial
GCHQ-backed startups tell UK government: give cyber the fintech treatment
GCHQ-selected startups believe Britain can boost its cybersecurity investment ranking with a similar commitment the government gave to the burgeoning fintech sector
NHS cyber unit welcomed with cautious optimism by privacy and security groups
NHS Digital has started a £20 million procurement process for an internal security operations unit that will receive emergency support from the winning third party
Hammond's Budget 2017 in tech: £500m investment package for 5G, full-fibre and AI
Nods to 5G and full-fibre echoed promises made in last year's budget, but chancellor Philip Hammond did announce a replacement for European Investment Fund lending "if necessary".
UK to overhaul data protection laws in line with GDPR
The British government has confirmed that it intends to mirror the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with a new Data Protection Bill
Rakuten picks Chef over Puppet for its healthy open source community
When Japanese retail giant Rakuten was thinking about bringing in devops tooling as part of a global operations initiative, it was the community support that swung it for Chef.
Chef sidles up to security for bringing automated compliance to devops
Open source devops business Chef arrived at security almost by accident - but now it’s winning compliance contracts based on GDPR alone as it begins to position itself as a vital automated security and compliance company.