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Blighter secures major funding to expand customer base
Blighter Surveillance Systems Ltd , a British designer and manufacturer of electronic-scanning (e-scan) radars and counter-drone solutions, has secured a significant growth capital loan from BOOST&Co to further exploit the success of its advanced radars and counter-drone solutions for use by airports, nuclear power stations, oil/gas processing plants and other critical national infrastructure…
Extent of human encroachment into world’s protected areas revealed
Largest study yet to compare protected with “matched” unprotected land finds “significantly higher” increases in human pressure – primarily through agriculture – in protected areas across the tropics.
Scientists developing diagnostic test which aims to detect antibiotic resistance in less than 45 minutes
Scientists are developing a low cost, rapid diagnostic sensor test which aims to show the susceptibility of bacteria to antibiotics within 45 minutes.
Creative Marketing Agency flocc expands operations in Cambridge
Digital Marketing Agency flocc is delighted to announce the opening of its new Cambridge office at WeWork, Station Road, Cambridge as part of its expansion in the city.
UCL spin-out TurinTech.ai raises £1 million funding
Turing Intelligence Technology (TurinTech.ai) has raised over £1 million in seed funding, led by IQ Capital. The company applies cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) to optimise and evolve generic software. The funding raised will be used to hire additional data scientists and deepen its ‘Optimisation Automation’ suite.
Broadband Speed Test
BroadbandUK has developed a best in class Broadband Speed Test, it is a new generation of broadband speed test developed using the latest technologies.
BroadbandUK's speed test uses latest technologies
BroadbandUK's Broadband Speed Test is the fastest growing speed test in the UK.
Audio Analytic invited to participate at WIRED Smarter London
If you’re going along to WIRED Smarter, Audio Analytic will also be there to showcase the exciting capabilities of its sound recognition technology, across smart speakers, the smart home, hearables, mobile and automotive.
SANE 2019: Addressing the limitations of sound event detection metrics
At SANE 2019, Audio Analytic’s research team will present its findings around the key issues that need to be addressed for a more robust, more versatile, more meaningful and more accurate evaluation metric to benefit academia and industry.
ThoughtRiver features in 'Evolve the Law'
Joanna Goodman of Evolve the Law caught up with Tim Pullan, founder and CEO of ThoughtRiver, at Legal Geek in London.
Sense Biodetection raises £12.3m to progress instrument-free molecular diagnostics
Sense Biodetection Limited (Sense) developers of simple, ultra-rapid, handheld tests for flu and other infectious diseases has raised £12.3M, in a funding round led by Cambridge Innovation Capital, with participation from Jonathan Milner.
Owlstone Medical to contribute breath biopsy to 3TR, the largest-ever IMI2 immunology project
Owlstone Medical, the global leader in Breath Biopsy® for applications in early disease detection and precision medicine has joined 3TR, a large-scale public-private research initiative that aims to provide new insights into the mechanisms of response and non-response to treatment within and across seven different immune-mediated diseases.
GiroNEX launches Cube Plus for use in early phase clinical trials manufacturing
GiroNEX – the Ely-based technology spin-out – has today announced a move into the pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment market, with the launch of its Cube Plus automated precision powder dispensing system for use in manufacturing powder-filled capsules and vials for early phase clinical trials and related drug development studies.
Cambridge Index jumps 3.7%
The Cambridge Index advanced 3.7% or 943.2 points to end at 26188.1, as four of the top five Index heavyweights posted weekly gains to their share prices.
IWM Duxford crowned Best Educational Day Out
IWM Duxford is delighted to announce that it was crowned 'Best Educational Day Out' in the East in the 2019 Day Out With the Kids Family Favourites Awards.
PredictImmune announces a strategic agreement with Theradiag for French speaking Europe to commercialise PredictSURE IBD™
An exclusive deal with the French diagnostic specialist Theradiag facilitates the first launch of PredictImmune’s prognostic tests in mainland Europe; and enables inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland to benefit from early prognosis.
First Harding Scholars welcomed
The University's first Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars were welcomed last week at a special event at St Catharine's College.
Money talks!
Sarah Austin, Independent Financial Adviser from Martin-Redman Partners, comments on the importance of talking about money.
An instrumental collection goes on display
Seventy-five years ago, R S Whipple donated an astonishing haul of antique scientific objects and books to the University of Cambridge. To mark the anniversary, hundreds of its treasures are going on display at the museum named in his honour.
Our most precious currency
What's the most precious of all your assets in business? Maybe not what you might expect, says Simon Hall...
Study finds bias in diversity
Diversity on key corporate committees is supposed to produce better decisions. But a study at Cambridge Judge Business School finds that diverse views rarely ‘average out’ as assumed, but instead lead to systematic biases toward certain types of errors.
Event focuses on 'Journalism in the digital age'
The next event in the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)/ Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) Marketing club series sees Mike Scialom reveal his insights into the digital world of press and PR.
Over £14,000 given to children’s hospice in memory of 15-year-old Sammy
A family from Hemingford Grey and their friends have presented East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) with a cheque for £14,099.54 in memory of Samantha Desborough.
CRC garden for special educational needs students is treated to a make-over
The garden at Cambridge Regional College (CRC), where special educational needs students grow vegetables, herbs and flowers in their horticultural studies, has been given a transformation.
Taking the RF lab outdoors - CRFS launches portable, high-fidelity RF recorder
RF hardware and software innovator CRFS announces the launch of its new RFeye SenS Portable, a small, lightweight, high-fidelity RF recorder for long-duration signal recording and playback, with applications in defense, manufacturing and telecommunications.