Weekly News Roundup 25th August 2017

Scottish Technology News

• Delay in software blamed for Edinburgh businesses being unable to apply for rates cap…?
• First harvest due for crop planted and tended by drones and autonomous vehicles
• Evoke IT partners with Blackberry to provide secure enterprise mobility software
• Edinburgh airport trebles the number of facial recognition systems
• RBS pulls advertising from ‘alt right’ site Breitbart
• National Film & Television School is to set up a base in Scotland

Global Technology News

• Estonia proposes estcoin government-backed cryptocurrency
• ‘Unfaithful man’ stock photograph meme takes over the Internet (and DIGIT)
• KFC plans to enhance it’s cook training program using Virtual Reality
• India leapfrogs the rest of the world to introduce biometric mass-surveillance for all citizens
• The wealth of the world’s richest tech billionaires zooms past $1 TRILLION
• Could the iPhone 8 cost a grand?
• Samsung boss gets five years for bribing the government
• …and the company’s latest firmware update fries it’s smart TVs
• Uber will donate $1.2 million to Girls Who Code
• HTC may spin off or sell Vive VR business
• The DVLA goes mental. The BBC explains to readers how to be outraged.
• Gabe Newell outdoing George RR Martin in ‘shut up and take my money‘ stakes
• The SMALT digital salt dispenser SMASHES through 30% of it’s crowdfunding target with a week left to go!
• User tests boundaries of ‘unlimited data plan’ with 1.8 Petabytes of, ummm, adult entertainment