Polish your ‘soft’ skills as managers and individual team contributors
RiverRhee has a number of half- and one-day courses geared to boosting your confidence and capability for everyday tasks. It schedules several of these as open courses and has the next round coming up in May. Alternatively, RiverRhee can tailor the courses to your requirements and availability and run them in-house for any number of delegates.
AIM Altitude continues successful relationship with Virgin Atlantic
AIM Altitude is continuing its successful relationship with Virgin Atlantic Airways by creating the retrofit bars for its fleet of A330-300s. The scope of the project includes a full Door-2 zone, with cantilevered bar, Premium Economy self-serve destination feature, bar leaner and monitor, as well as feature panels for Upper Class and increased Door-1 stowages.
Candidates announced for District Council elections
The candidates who are seeking election to South Cambridgeshire District Council have been published, after the deadline for nominations closed.
Genome sequencing of first 50,000 UK Biobank participants
UK Biobank has announced a major initiative to sequence the full genomes of 50,000 UK Biobank volunteer participants.
Reliance and Brooks partner to deliver innovative laboratory automation
Reliance Precision Limited is delighted to announce its partnership with Brooks Life Science Systems (Brooks), the leading worldwide provider of innovative and comprehensive sample lifecycle management solutions for the life sciences industry.
What makes a faster typist?
The largest-ever dataset on typing speeds and styles, based on 136 million keystrokes from 168,000 volunteers, finds that the fastest typists not only make fewer errors, but they often type the next key before the previous one has been released.
Come and hear acclaimed author Robert McCrum
Join Arthur Rank Hospice Charity's Literary Evening next Thursday (12 April 2018).
ZEISS announces advances in tomographic imaging with results 4x faster
ZEISS introduces a new module for the ZEISS Xradia Versa 500-series of 3D X-ray microscopes (XRM) that will allow users to acquire high quality images in one-quarter the time.
Social innovation, over time
Community activists tend to seek urgent solutions, but a new study from the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation emphasises how patience is essential for cross-sector development work.
New rankings show UK’s most equal universities
A new policy paper written by Professor Iain Martin, Vice Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University, has ranked UK universities on their success in widening participation and attracting students from a wide range of backgrounds.
Prestigious award nominations for Greater Cambridge Shared Waste Service
The Greater Cambridge Shared Waste Service, with the University of Cambridge, has been shortlisted for UK-wide awards that showcase the best in recycling and waste management, for work on a large underground bin system.
Engineers develop chewing simulation machine to test denture adhesives
TWI engineers led by Dr Farshad Salamat-Zadeh have designed, developed and manufactured a machine to simulate the chewing actions of the human mouth in order to test denture adhesives.
Multi-cloud use and compliance requirements shape encryption strategy
Encryption with public cloud services has experienced double digit growth, says a new report from Thales e-Security.
Cambridge MP reaps the BEANefits of local reusable coffee cup scheme
Daniel Zeichner, MP for Cambridge, will visit Benet’s café in Cambridge today (Friday) to trial the cafe’s reusable coffee cup scheme that earns customers a 50p discount with every purchase. Mr Zeichner will experience first hand how customers are benefiting from a saving on their caffeine hit, while reducing waste and helping the environment.
Legal Director joins Birketts’ Commercial Property Team
Cameron Barlow has joined Birketts as a Legal Director in its highly regarded Commercial Property Team. The appointment sees Cameron working alongside more than a hundred property specialists in one of the largest and most successful property practices outside London.
Origami Energy raises £18.6m series ‘B’ funding
Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) has participated in an £18.6 million funding round in Origami Energy. Aggreko plc, the FTSE-listed global leader in on-site power generation with a presence in over 100 countries, has made a major investment in this funding round. Other current investors also participated.
The UK to Detroit: Autonomous Vehicle Global Business Accelerator proves a success
The Autonomous Vehicle (AV) industry is thriving and projected to be worth £28bn in the UK alone by 2035. Innovate UK, supported by the Enterprise Europe Network, hosted a visit last month (10-15th March 2018) to Detroit for businesses working within the AV space.
City of Gold Coast embraces digital technology for 2018 Commonwealth Games
The 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, the biggest sporting event the city has ever seen, is welcoming around 672,00 visitors, with sporting events taking place throughout the host city and event cities Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville.
Sepura partner SYSOCO successfully tests Gateway Radio Solution at Lyon-Bron Airport
Sepura partner for France, Sysoco, has successfully tested a gateway radio solution ahead of a planned roll-out at Lyon-Bron Airport and Lyon Saint-Exupery.
GeoSpock bolsters C-suite team as part of scale-up plans
GeoSpock® – the extreme-scale data indexing platform that provides analytics, builds insight, and enables predictions across space and time – today announced the appointment of Ian Hammond as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Simon Peace as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Lighthouse advises on another exciting EdTech deal
Technology M&A specialist Lighthouse Advisory Partners is pleased to announce that it acted as exclusive M&A advisor to leading UK business-critical software provider, IRIS Software Group, on its acquisition of Contact Group. The acquisition further extends IRIS’ offering in the running of a modern education facility.
Online tool can measure individuals’ likelihood to fall for internet scams
Researchers have developed an online questionnaire which measures a range of personality traits to identify individuals who are more likely to fall victim to internet scams and other forms of cybercrime.
Experts debate nature’s value at Cambridge conference
What value do we attach to a forest or a stretch of coastline? Should we put a price on a riverbank or a footpath across fields? Leading experts will debate the concept of “natural capital” – and what we might risk losing if we apply capitalist thinking to the natural environment – at a conference at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge next Wednesday (11 April).
Newton funding to bolster China’s long-term growth with agri-tech innovation
Earlham Institute (EI, UK) and the Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU, China) work together towards resolving the urgent issue of agri-food security in China by developing precision agriculture solutions - funded by the Newton Network+.
Azuri Technologies: Engaged UK crowd raises £1.7m for electrifying Africa
The UK crowd has raised £1.7M to deliver clean energy and modern devices to over 16,000 households.