98 nanoseconds tick-to-trade networking: introducing the Ultimate Trading Machine
Solarflare, the market share leader in connecting trading servers to Ethernet networks; LDA Technologies, an FPGA product development firm; and Penguin Computing, a provider of custom and turnkey high performance computing, enterprise datacenter and cloud solutions; today announced record-breaking tick-to-trade networking performance for a server configuration they have nick-named the Ultimate…
Scientists write ‘traps’ for light with tiny ink droplets
A microscopic ‘pen’ that is able to write structures small enough to trap and harness light using a commercially available printing technique could be used for sensing, biotechnology, lasers, and studying the interaction between light and matter.
Free energy efficiency training session for Cambridge SMEs
Are you a small or young business looking to reduce your energy consumption, reduce your costs, and improve your reputation? Sign up to receive energy efficiency training from a Carbon Trust expert and explore some of the initiatives on offer that provide funded support and capital which aim to help you develop and grow your business.
Primera Air to launch new Toronto flights from London Stansted
Primera Air is to launch a third transatlantic route from its new base at London Stansted with direct flights to the Canadian city of Toronto from June 2018.
Fresh push to tackle poverty and disadvantage in Living Wage Week
Cambridge City Council will mark the progress it has made in encouraging employers to pay the Real Living Wage, by asking more local businesses to join its campaign to tackle poverty and disadvantage, during next week’s national Living Wage Week (5 – 11 November).
UltraSoC appoints Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli as Chairman
UltraSoC announces that Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has joined the company as Non-Executive Chairman, bringing the benefits of his significant experience in the electronics design industry.
ModuLase - combining laser processes for the future of manufacturing
TWI is working alongside a number of project partners as part of the Factories of the Future public-private partnership to develop a highly flexible, modular, re-configurable Laser Process Head capable of covering welding, cladding and cutting.
The business of doing business
Next month, The Business Show will be back for its seventeenth year running at Olympia in west London. Among the country’s largest business shows, it allows companies from major organisations to SMEs to meet, interact — and hopefully do business together.
Biotech or Life Sciences? Don't miss the opportunity to hear from a key NHS decision maker
Lancaster Hammond Ltd invites you to attend its Lunch'n'Learn ‘Building Market Access into Your NHS Product Offering', with pharmacist and health economist Diar Fattah on Wednesday 22 November at The Trinity Centre, Cambridge Science Park.
Darktrace gains momentum in Canada
TRJ Télécom, Energy+, and Pizza Pizza join growing list of customers
Keeping fraud costs at bay
Improving efficiency and saving costs with adaptive behavioural analytics
Everysight and Qualcomm announce reshaping of the cycling experience
Everysight, the makers of the soon-to-be released Raptor AR Smartglasses (Raptor), selected the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 410E embedded platform, a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., to power its flagship product.
Additional fortification to SoCs powering the next trillion connected devices
Last year at Arm TechCon, SoftBank Chairman and President Masayoshi Son laid out an ambitious vision of a trillion connected devices. It’s a vision Arm is aggressively pursuing by working with our ecosystem to invisibly enable those trillion devices to connect securely.
Cycle Pharmaceuticals appoints KISS
Cycle ™ Pharmaceuticals, a pioneering pharmaceuticals company based in Cambridge, has appointed KISS Communications to act as its healthcare communications agency.
CCS and ADTRAN align on Open Network vision for Metnet self-organising mmWave backhaul
ADTRAN adds Metnet to its Mosaic Open Network Alliance and portfolio to deliver backhaul and access solution for pre-5G and next-generation deployments.
Competition hopes to find innovative solutions in mental health and technology in surgery
A new SBRI Healthcare competition is being launched by NHS England in partnership with the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) to find innovative new products and services in mental health and technology in surgery.
Cambridge loses top spot but continues to outperform Oxford in economic battle
Cambridge has been overtaken by Milton Keynes in the league table of fastest growing city economies in the UK, according to new study by national law firm Irwin Mitchell.
It’s official: AstraZeneca and MedImmune ranked a top place for scientists to work by Science
AstraZeneca and MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, have been voted one of the top science employers worldwide, in the prestigious Science 2017 Top Employers Survey.
Adder Technology enables innovations in virtual reality at the 37th Cambridge Film Festival
A partnership with Cambridge-based Adder Technology means that for the first time, Cambridge Film Festival will feature cutting edge virtual reality, showcasing three extraordinary programmes that demonstrate the current capability of immersive technology in the hands of pioneering creatives.
Step inside the mind of the young Stephen Hawking as his PhD thesis goes online
Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, ‘Properties of expanding universes’, has been made freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world, after being made accessible via the University of Cambridge’s Open Access repository, Apollo.
AtlasGlobal Unlimited: fly all you can in Business Class
In association with one of its carriers, AtlasGlobal, Stansted Airport is offering business travellers the opportunity to take part in an Unlimited Flight Package.
Ashtons Legal appoints new Business Managers
Ashtons Legal has created and filled new Business Manager roles in a move designed to ensure that its experienced lawyers are able to concentrate on providing quality legal advice to clients while others support them to grow and develop the firm for a profitable future.
Lighthouse Advisory publishes Q3 EdTech deals round-up
It's been an exciting year for UK Education Technology - Lighthouse is pleased to publish its Q3 round-up of all activity in this sector to date.
Print My Part - new 3D printing service launches near Cambridge
Print My Part is a brand new 3D printing service, specialising in the fast turnaround of high quality and affordable plastic parts. To celebrate its launch, the company is offering 50% off ALL jobs for new customers until 22nd December 2017.
Machine learning used to predict earthquakes in a lab setting
A group of researchers from the UK and the US have used machine learning techniques to successfully predict earthquakes. Although their work was performed in a laboratory setting, the experiment closely mimics real-life conditions, and the results could be used to predict the timing of a real earthquake.