Darktrace cyber AI distinguishes real emails from ‘digital fakes’ where humans cannot
Darktrace, the world’s leading cyber AI company, has announced that, due to customer demand, it has expanded its platform to cover additional email systems including G Suite and Microsoft Exchange.
UK tech sector beats US and China to lead global growth in 2019
The UK produced eight new unicorns in 2019 – including Cambridge-based CMR Surgical – with annual investment leaping by 44%. Cambridge is one of the 12 top destinations in the world for venture capital investment, beating cities like Oslo and Dublin.
ECM Report shows more competition for junior Software Engineers
High-tech recruitment experts ECM release their latest annual Salary and Benefits Report. The Report analyses up-to-date information surveyed directly from client companies and gathered indirectly from recent data covering job seekers, vacancies and placement data. Its findings allow companies to compare salary levels and benefits packages, to ensure they retain key staff and can continue to…
Stocks in Focus: Trojan Fund
This week Harry Scargill of NW Brown Wealth Management looks at the Trojan Fund, an open-ended investment fund which aims grow investors capital (net of fees), ahead of the UK Retail Prices Index over the longer term, which the managers describe as being five to seven years.
Insignis Cash Solutions opens larger offices in London
Insignis Cash Solutions, the leading Cash Management Platform provider, announced the opening of a larger office in London which will strengthen the company’s partnerships in the Capital.
New study finds evidence for reduced brain connections in schizophrenia
Advances in scanning have allowed researchers for the first time to show lower levels of a protein found in the connections between neurons in the living brains of people with schizophrenia.
Study explores management implications of 'confirming behaviour'
Chief executive officers receive plenty of advice – from company boards, employees, financial analysts and others – and are paid the big bucks to sift through such recommendations to make tough decisions.
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Looking to change your old fashioned wooden windows in Cambridge?
Cambridge is a beautiful city and has an abundance of architectural gems throughout.
Council 'ahead of schedule' on generating 25% of Council budget through investments
Councillors have announced they are ahead of schedule on plans to generate at least a quarter of the money spent on services by South Cambridgeshire District Council from their own investments by March 2024.
Top car makers could face €14.5bn fines for missing the EU’s CO₂ emissions targets
Europe’s 13 top car manufacturers will miss their 2021 targets and will face fines of more than €14.5bn, according to the annual forecast of car manufacturers’ performance against mandatory EU CO₂ emissions targets, published by PA Consulting, the global innovation and transformation consultancy.
Cambridge Index eases 1.0%
The Cambridge Index declined 285.9 points or 1% to close at 27,652.2, as four of the top five Index heavyweights posted weekly losses to their share prices.
Announcement of opportunity: Enabling research in smart sustainable plastic packaging
UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) is inviting proposals under the Enabling Research workstream for projects to establish academic‑led research that addresses widely understood problems in relation to plastic packaging, whose solutions are unknown today, but which if solved will unlock existing barriers to fundamental systems change, and make an important contribution to achieving the objectives…
Horizon Discovery signs collaboration and licence agreement with Mammoth Biosciences
Horizon Discovery Group plc, a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation technologies, announced that it has signed a collaboration and licence agreement with Mammoth Biosciences to access Mammoth’s novel CRISPR platform and thereby facilitate delivery of a new generation of genetically engineered CHO cells for the production of biotherapeutics such as therapeutic…
Generous people around Huntingdon give charity donation in exchange for Christmas tree recycling
A charity received more than £4,000 in exchange for collecting some 350 Christmas trees from Huntingdon, St Ives and surrounding villages over the weekend.
‘Real’ rape stereotype may affect child rape trials
New research has found that two factors – an outdoor location and the presence of a weapon – have a significant bearing on the verdict of juries in cases of child stranger rape.
Birketts shortlisted for the Managing Partners’ Forum Awards 2020 for Best Community Programme
Top 100 law firm Birketts has been shortlisted for Best Community Programme at the eighteenth annual Management Excellence Awards.
Why should employers be aware of 'the season of separation'?
The HR Dept's blog this month focuses on the unfortunate label for January, as 'the season of separation'. While relationship troubles are personal and best kept out of the workplace, the magnitude of a divorce can be difficult for a person to manage.
'Platforms for the people' present challenges, says study
Civic crowdfunding now finances civic infrastructure, but these platforms must navigate tension between growth and their social mission, says a study co-authored by Dr Matthew Grimes of Cambridge Judge Business School.
New doctoral training centre for Earth Observation of environmental challenges
An exciting new centre has been announced that will train 50 PhD students to tackle environmental challenges using the latest satellite data.
Nick Salisbury joins EMV Capital as Senior Private Client Manager
EMV Capital continues to expand its team, in support of the company's growth strategies. This Investor Relations hire will help EMV Capital support its growing private investor community and the EIS investment practice.
Madingley Road Cycling and Walking project consultation launched
The Greater Cambridge Partnership has launched a consultation on proposals for cycling and walking improvements on Madingley Road in Cambridge.
Your ideas. Our future. Get involved now.
The first conversation to create “the most important document most people have never heard of” has started – with residents urged to get involved now in planning how we live, work and play in Greater Cambridge in the decades ahead.
Adder launches 24/7 Elite Service for mission-critical KVM
Adder Technology, a specialist in connectivity solutions and high performance IP KVM, today announced its Elite Service, a new addition to its industry-leading Professional Services portfolio.
BroadbandUK issues 2019 speed test results
More than 100,000 UK based speed tests ran in 2019.