Scottish Weekly Tech News

• Polly Purvis, the head of ScotlandIS was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list
• Scotland’s digital technologies market contributes over £3.9B with over 90,000 workers says Scotland’s Digital Technologies: Summary Report
• Edinburgh ‘tech unicorn’ has merger with rival blocked by US courts over fears of a monopoly
• Scottish Health Committee hears NHS Scotland at risk of more cyber attacks
• New Kilmarnock hub to focus on cyber security skills for retail
• Scotland’s FinTech sector profiled as part of UK scene by banking technology
• Scottish business confidence improves, but remain doubtful about future prospects

World Weekly Tech News

• The European Union is considering an outright ban on ‘backdoors’ into encryption technology
• Thousands of British MPs, Police and officials login details being traded by Russian hackers
• The legends and rumours of haunted videogames, from Polybious to, ummm, Minecraft…
• Ms Paltrow’s pricey energy-rebalancing conductive carbon stickers (as used by NASA) not actually used by NASA, says NASA
• KFC shot a chicken burger into space. For reals. Why, we don’t know
• New technologies could spell the end of bank tellers
• SEGA is releasing many of it’s old back catalogue games on mobile