UK firms hiring over-50s to plug labour shortage
ALMOST three-quarters of UK employers are turning to retirees to fill vacant job roles.
According to research by LinkedIn, companies including easyJet, Halfords and McDonald’s...
UK’s ATMs disappear as digital cash edges closer
FINTECH firm Intergiro has conducted a study to find which UK regions have seen the biggest decline in cash machines since 2018.
Using data from...
Rising investment in UK climate tech development
INTERNATIONAL investment into UK climate tech companies risen from $4m in 2021 to $7.5bn this year — and the figure could rise to £20bn...
NFTs are down — as are sports stars who bought them
AMERICAN football wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr holds the dubious distinction of being the athlete who has lost the most money on NFTs.
Following the...
Mind your language! Rude company names are out
A FREEDOM of information (FOI) request found that 56,640 business names were rejected by Companies House between January 2019 and April 2022.
Nearly half (25,400)...
Prospecting goes orbital with satellite tech
A UK SATELLITE firm has won a multi-million-pound customer contract to construct a remote-sensing prospecting satellite.
Exobotics will design, manufacture, and test a CubeSat satellite...
AI at the easel: Can machines make art?
By REESE JONES
THE ART community took a jolt when an “artbot” won first place at a Colorado State Fair competition in August.
Jason Allen admitted...
Buy, sell, fire: Musk hits the ground flailing
ELON Musk has sold another 19.5 million Tesla shares.
The sell-off comes just days after his $44bn Twitter takeover. Tesla's share price has fallen by more...
Media and emissions link: new ground broken
SINCE 2019, communications company dentsu has been working with the University of Bristol, the BBC, Sky, Netflix and ITV to calculate the greenhouse gas...
Old dogs must dodge discrimination, says doco
WE EXIST in an ageist society which it is difficult to escape, warns STEVE BUTLER, author, documentary maker, and CEO at financial planning firm...