Dyson pulls the plug on electric cars. The billionaire businessman had hoped to harness his group’s expertise in battery systems, aerodynamics and high-tech manufacturing to break into a fiercely competitive industry. Weekly meetings of the auto team run by former BMW and Nissan executive Roland Krueger, who joined Dyson in January 2019, reviewed the outlook…
John Goodenough of the University of Texas in Austin, who is still active in research to lead the development of rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries that power everything mobile phones to laptops and even electric vehicles, at the age of 97. John Goodenough was the oldest laureate in any discipline in the 118-year history of Nobel Prizes,…
The US is looking at ways to channel money to Huawei’s European rivals, as officials warn that the Chinese company is becoming dangerously dominant in the race for the next generation of mobile communications. The US official have suggested issuing credit to companies such as Nokia and Ericsson to enable them to match financing terms…
Gretchen McCulloch, a Canadian linguist, making sense of the ways we communicate online “ how internet is making us more nuanced and inventive writers”, in her latest book she writes “ because of internet, through a revolutionary period in linguistic history, where writing quickly, within character limits and deploying ever-changing internet slang, is enriching…
Huawei has bought a stake in the company that commercialises research at Oxford University , giving the Chinese telecoms group access to soe of the early stage technology developed by British academics. Oxford Sciences Innovation, whose mission is to bring Oxford’s best ideas to the world, is the largest fund dedicated to academic spin-offs in…
Juniper Networks a leader in AI driven networks announced first phase of Telefonica UK’s successful services migration to the Telefonica UK Fusion Network, a brand new infrastructure for which Juniper Networks is the strategic IP network provider. both designed the Fusion Network to transform the customer experience for mobile, residential and business services globally. This…
Google’s CEO, has warned politicians against a thoughtless regulation of artificial Intelligence arguing that existing rules may still be sufficient to govern the new technology. Sundar Pichai want “ smart regulation” that balanced innovation with protecting citizens, while many regulators are more interested in tackling Google over antitrust than AI, as Google is keen to…
A large underwater observatory that was stationed at a depth of 22 meters in the Baltic Sea has vanished without a trace. The $330,000 observatory managed by Ocean Research agencies had been on seafloor in a restricted area off the northern coast of Germany since December 2016. Divers were sent to locate the observatory found…
ISRO said on Saturday it had lost communication with its Vikram lander 1.2miles before touchdown on the moon’s south pole. The complex £114m mission involved carrying out a soft landing with a rover vehicle to search for signs of water. India would have become only the fourth country to land a vessel on the lunar…