Approval for energy saving fund
It’s been confirmed that a £200,000 loan fund will be set up to help South Cambridgeshire’s residents, community groups and businesses become more energy efficient.
Spark EV accelerates expansion with funding from New Anglia Capital
Pioneering tech company Spark EV is driving business development of its artificial intelligence-based journey prediction system for electric vehicles (EV) with a £50,000 investment from New Anglia Capital as part of its seed investment round.
Bitcoin crash could derail other cryptocurrencies
A sharp fall in the value of Bitcoin may cause other cryptocurrencies to crash, but is unlikely to have a significant impact on traditional assets, according to new research published in the journal Economics Letters.
AVEVA acquires rights to Shell’s engineering design and productivity software
Today, AVEVA acquired the intellectual property rights to the engineering design database and design productivity software known as EDD and PDMSi, developed by Shell International Exploration and Production Inc., a member of the Royal Dutch Shell plc group.
Apply now for community facility and public art grants
Two S106 grant-funding rounds are now open for applications to Cambridge City Council, to improve community facilities and encourage small-scale public art projects in Cambridge.
Newly-developed image guidelines will improve mobile shopping experience worldwide
A new type of online product image, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with global consumer goods company Unilever, could improve the mobile shopping experience for the world’s 2.5 billion smartphone users.
Bank of England provides forecast to business leaders
Brexit uncertainty, currency fluctuations and a hold on interest rates will all be discussed at a Bank of England Economic Forecast event in Cambridge, hosted by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA) and the Cambridgeshire Branch of the Institute of Directors (IoD).
Carl Ostermann Erben (COE) is announced as German trade shop for Bellissima DMS
Aniken Graphics International LLP, a joint venture between Hamillroad Software, a UK based prepress software solutions company, and Apex International, a global leader of anilox and metering products, have announced today that Carl Ostermann Erben (COE), is approved as a trade shop to supply plates made using Bellissima Digitally Modulated Screening (DMS) to the German label market.
Nokia and Qualcomm complete key foundation tests of 5G New Radio network and devices
Nokia and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, have successfully completed interoperability testing in the 3.5Ghz and 28Ghz spectrum compliant with the global 3GPP 5G NR Release 15 standard - which was formally confirmed in December - and using the commercially available Nokia AirScale base station and device prototypes from Qualcomm Technologies.
Trust’s cancer fight gets equipment boost
Cambridge University Hospitals’ battle to help cancer patients from all over East Anglia is getting a multi-million pound boost.
IT Governance encourages compliance professionals to participate in its second GDPR survey
IT Governance, the leading provider of cyber security and data protection expertise, is encouraging professionals involved in EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance projects to take part in the 2018 GDPR Survey for a chance to win a £350 voucher.
Cambridge start-ups combine forces to develop autonomy for lightweight vehicles
Cambridge Electric Transport (CET) and Robik AI have formed a partnership to develop and test autonomous operation capabilities for lightweight vehicles.
Learning to mend a broken heart
Want to know how science is finding new ways to help the heart recover from damage, disease and stroke?
Cambridge Street Aid charitable fund raises nearly £25,000 to help rough sleepers
Generous residents and visitors to Cambridge have donated nearly £25,000 to a fund to help rough sleepers in just over a year since its launch.
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast: what’s next for thinking machines?
Our lives are already enhanced by AI – or at least an AI in its infancy – with technologies using algorithms that help them to learn from our behaviour. As AI grows up and starts to think, not just to learn, we ask how human-like do we want their intelligence to be and what impact will machines have on our jobs?
Central banks branch out
Central banks undertake ‘gradual but definite expansion’ of investment activities that look beyond their traditional boundaries, says a report by BNY Mellon in collaboration with Cambridge Judge Business School.
Team Consulting appoints joint heads of project management for medical device development
Medical device developer Team Consulting appoints new joint heads of project management - Dr Barry Brewster and Carl Warren.
Charity shops get creative to encourage clothing donations
Mannequins in charity shop windows are being dressed with donation bags – like those pictured – as East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) bids to replenish its clothing rails.
More than 2,000 clients purchase IT Governance’s ISO 27001 documentation toolkits
IT Governance, a global leader in cyber security expertise and solutions, is proud to have provided more than 2,000 clients with the best tools to help implement an ISO 27001-certified information security management system (ISMS).
Do you use inert gas blanketing within your manufacturing process?
Inert gas blanketing is a process used to protect volatile, combustible or perishable products from undesirable reactions such as oxidation or explosion.
Cambridge Consultants: transforming the US prescription drug market with public blockchain
Cambridge Consultants confronts legacy drug price negotiation strategies by enabling an open trading platform through public blockchain.
Webinar: Get under the bonnet of business process management (BPM)
In this BPM webinar, Tier 2 Consulting introduces Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite, a technology which empowers you to build flexible, smart business process applications for optimising and scheduling business resources.
Invisible Superheroes fly to next month’s Big Bang Fair
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Invisible Superheroes fly to Birmingham next month for The Big Bang, the UK's biggest STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) event for young people.
Together we’re making more noise for women and girls
One hundred years ago today marked a turning point for the British women’s suffrage movement, when 8.4 million women were granted the vote -- the start of a journey of empowerment which continues to this day, and proof of what is possible when we make enough noise. In the past few weeks Camfed teamed up with some great partners to make more noise for girls’ education and women’s empowerment in…
Leading education fund selects Darktrace for AI cyber defence
Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System protects personal information of over 450,000 Canadian citizens.