01/08/2018
With Apple reporting better than expected results it seems set to become the world’s first company to be valued at $1trillion.
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31/07/2018
Matt Hancock, the UK’s new health and social care secretary, has said that the NHS is set to experience a technology transformation.
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26/07/2018
A new report from CrowdStrike, a specialist in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, raises the prospect that software supply chain attacks have the potential to become one of the biggest cyber threats in the next few years.
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23/07/2018
UK manufacturing has a lot to contend with. Coming to terms with the digitalisation of the factory process, recruiting skilled labour, providing adequate training, boosting productivity and investment, let alone regulation and trade barriers. Manufacturers are faced with a very challenging economic environment.
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20/07/2018
A new survey from Plastic Logic, the 'State of Display', suggests that 80 per cent of engineers are stifling innovation in display because of a lack of experimentation.
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17/07/2018
The Farnborough Airshow, running this week, looks set to attract over 100,000 trade visitors from 100 countries and, if it matches the 2016 show, could see deals worth over £95billion being signed off.
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10/07/2018
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, it’s what everyone in the industry is pointing to as ‘the next big thing’. That’s the next stage of our research, that’s where the sector is heading, etc. etc. It’s trickling into all areas of the industry that a mere decade ago would have seemed the work of science fiction. From storage, to healthcare, transport and defence, we’re going to see AI.
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09/07/2018
It’s been a torrid few months for Tesla, with a series of mishaps, reality checks and mishandled media events.
Investors have grown worried about an increasing number of problems with the company, such as concerns over car safety and a major recall earlier this year, which involved almost half the Model S cars sold to date. In March, a Model X crashed into a highway barrier in Mountain View, California, killing the driver.
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03/07/2018
PwC recently forecast that the market for drones would be worth over £40billion by 2020, while the banking firm Goldman Sachs, over two years ago, suggested it could be worth $100billion by 2020.
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26/06/2018
A year of seismic social and political change 1968 saw anti-Vietnam war protests in London; the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr; the creation of Intel Corporation; and a music scene still being set by the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
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25/06/2018
With robotics and AI affecting many sectors, what impact could they have on healthcare provision?
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21/06/2018
Revolutions rarely go other than two ways. They either result in violence and destruction amidst sweeping change or there can be a peaceful transition whereby change comes with minimal disruption
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19/06/2018
The Roehampton Annual Computing Education Report (TRACER), which provides an analysis of the provision of GCSE and A-level computing qualifications in schools in England, has just been released by the University of Roehampton.
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12/06/2018
Last week, news emerged that Amazon and eBay were looking to pull a brand of cuddly toy from sale. Not because they were badly made, or made from a toxic substance, but rather because they pose a serious cyber-security threat.
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05/06/2018
The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare has been identified as key component when it comes to improving how patients are seen and how treatments could be planned better, enabling doctors to make faster and more informed decisions by having all the information they need to make a better and safer decision.
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05/06/2018
Wearable technology has always enjoyed a certain synonymousness with the futuristic and the creative.
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30/05/2018
Despite an increased awareness of how our activities can impact on the environment, we’re still pretty useless when it comes to taking care of planet earth. And electronic, or e-waste, isn’t helping in the battle to secure a greener world.
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30/05/2018
According to a new report from accountants PwC, the UK economy could receive a hefty £42billion boost from using drones to transform working practices by 2030.
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29/05/2018
Today, new technologies enter the market very, very quickly. For some of the world’s biggest companies, the focus is on launching new products or refining and improving existing models.
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25/05/2018
Ten months to go before the UK leaves the European Union (EU) and you could almost taste the anxiety among uncertain Brits.
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24/05/2018
With solid growth continuing extended lead times seem to be creeping up and shortages are starting to appear.
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23/05/2018
In the 'Year of Engineering', engineering skills are taking centre stage and the Skills Commission inquiry, which is co-chaired by Lucy Allan MP, Preet Gill MP and Professor Sandra McNally, is taking evidence as to why women are so badly under-represented within engineering courses, and whether upcoming skills system reforms will encourage more women to go into the profession.
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20/05/2018
Last week Synopsys released its Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report for 2017, and it has raised some serious issues.
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14/05/2018
Apple, Intel, Microsoft and Uber are among a number of businesses who have been given the greenlight by the US government for ten pilot drone projects - including mapping, aircraft inspection and food delivery.
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08/05/2018
The UK Government has confirmed plans for a British Global Navigation Satellite System are under consideration.
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