Tech

2019 Mercedes F1 car

Coronavirus co-operation across sectors comes up with promising equipment

THE MERCEDES F1 team is an unlikely player in the medical field, but it has had a major role in the development of a...
Mind Trace, one of the innovators showcased at events in March

Uni-supported innovators to pitch at showcase events

FOUNDERS of University of Edinburgh-supported start-ups will be able to showcase their companies to an audience of investors at two events taking in March. Ten...
Bored Apes

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...

Energy for the Masses: Raiders of the Lost Promise – The...

The vast amounts of energy released by splitting the atom has enabled scientists to produce both nuclear power and nuclear weapons, demonstrating that mankind’s...
Purple Grapes - wine investment illustration

This could be a grape investment — but …

Want to invest in something different? There’s an app for that, discovers HAL WILLIAMS... THE WINE investment segment has seen a five percent rise in...
Drone

Autonomous drone tech ‘could add billions to UK economy’

THE UK government is considering a landmark national strategy for drone technology that could spawn jobs and drive economic growth. A White Paper, A National...
Paul G. Allen

Paul Allen – The Forgotten Man Of Microsoft

When two school friends set up their own software business, one of them didn’t expect it to become one of the most successful companies...
Exobotics

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...
Diia.City logo, Ukraine

Zoom meeting from a bomb shelter in Ukraine…

‘Yesterday afternoon,’ writes ANNABEL CLEMENTSON, who submitted the following media release to BV, ‘I joined a call with team members from Ukraine’s Diia.City programme...

Daniel Hashim (Founder, Carbon Sponge Solutions): Small is beautiful

BOFFIN-turned-businessman Daniel Hashim is carving out a name for himself by getting nanotechnology out of the research laboratory and into the industrial marketplace. Dr Hashim’s...