Making the PSN better
...the number of consumers on the network. We hope these changes, as well as many other, smaller changes we are making in how we deal with and think about our...
James A. Duncan
James Duncan is the Chief Technical Officer for PSN and a Senior Technical Advisor in the Government Digital Service, part of the Cabinet Office.
Public Services Network: a foundation for change
Since Andy Beale’s last post about management changes in the Public Services Network (PSN) team in July, we’ve been working hard to deliver the government’s high performance network.
This week in tech links: make-up from a 3D printer and a re-designed axe
For various reasons it’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote up the various tech news that has caught my eye. That doesn’t mean I’ve not been looking though! I really love new solutions to old problems, and …
This week in tech links: Augmented Reality helmets and electricity-generating graphene
In the future, firefighters will use Augmented Reality to help them with their dangerous jobs. I don’t know about anybody else, but I’d probably walk around with one of these fancy hats before I walked around in Google glasses. Google …
Remediating legacy technology: a success story from the Department for Work & Pensions
The VME (Virtual Machine Environment) operating system was created by the company ICL in the 1970s. In many ways, it is a great story about British technology.
This week in tech links: slime mold, a 128 GB RAM module and a 30 second phone charger
...slime mold make a 128GB RAM module, like Korean firm SK Hynix has? The Facebook app on your iPhone is disturbingly efficient at draining your battery life. Fortunately there is...
This week in tech links: ink-saving typefaces, Cloudera and robotic kangaroos
This week we learned about a science fair project that identified millions in potential savings by simply switching fonts. Swapping from Times New Roman to Garamond would save the U.S. federal government $400 million in the cost of ink. Make …
This week in tech links: Google Glass, graphene and geneticat
...breakthrough opens the possibility for night vision capable contact lenses. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/contact-lenses-with-night-vision-could-be-on-the-way-thanks-to-graphene-breakthrough-9208212.html After a year without a CEO, Mozilla Corporation have announced that Brenden Eich, inventor of JavaScript, and formerly the...