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Legislation & Skills
Tech body welcomes May’s Brexit plan
Commenting on today’s Brexit speech from the Prime Minister, techUK, believes leaving the Single Market will have a bigger impact on tech than the rest of the UK economy.
Autumn Statement: Chancellor bets on driverless car tech
Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond outlines in the Autumn Statement the creation of an National Productivity Investment Fund to invest in the nationals digital infrastructure.
Autumn Statement: Match tech investment with skills, says RAE
Government plans for new investment in infrastructure and R&D in the Autumn Statement, will be good for the engineering and technology sectors, says RAE.
Software firm aims to empower women in technology
With a software programming industry saturated with men it is believed that software companies could be losing out on gifted women coders. Inspiring women from a young age to enter the technology industry could see software development companies receiving a greater number of female applicants. However, according to data released by Coupfy, more than half (56%) of women in tech positions leave companies in ...
Electronics patent of the month: Transaction checking
This month's patent features the challenge of transaction checking and countering 'man-in-the-middle' and 'man-in-the-browser' attacks
Small cell guidelines will drive virtualisation
Small Cell Forum (SCF) has published its latest guidelines for operators planning to deploy Network Function Virtualisation (NFV). Small cell virtualisation offers scalability and network slicing and so is likely to be used as a part of 5G networks, enterprise services and the internet of things (IoT). Virtualisation allows network functions to be separated from the radio, and run on commodity hardware, including the ...
IET Savoy Place re-opened by Princess Royal
The London headquarters of the Institution of Engineering and Technology has been officially reopened by HRH The Princess Royal after two years of renovation of the historic building on the banks of the Thames in Savoy Place. To mark the official reopening, HRH The Princess Royal, who is an Honorary Fellow of the IET, sealed a time capsule containing artefacts ...
Open Bionics founder to speak at NIDays in London
James Dyson Award winner Joel Gibbard will present his personal view of technical innovation, which includes a little bit of playfulness, at NIDays in London next month (29 November). The CEO and co-founder of Open Bionics believes that technology with “a little bit of creativity and playfulness can change people’s lives for the better”. And he uses open source design ...
micro:bit launches educational foundation
A foundation, in the form of not-for-profit company, has been set-up to support the BBC micro:bit educational computer. Prior to this, support has been from a group of companies and other organisations loosely called the ‘micro:bit partnership’. “I’d like to say huge thank you to everybody that has played a part in getting the micro:bit to where it is today.”said Sinead ...