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Back story: Dr Marlene Kanga, past president of the World Federation of EngineeringAustralian engineer Dr Marlene Kanga, AM FTSE HonFIEAust HonFIChemE, is the immediate past president of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) representing 100 nations and some 30 million engineers. With a background in chemical engineering, she is now a keen advocate for the promotion of […]

‘There was no equivalent of Zoom for running a lab’: Matt Reed, Materials Innovation Factory“Lockdown was really interesting in the way it affected the way different people worked,” says Matt Reed. “Office workers decamped, set up at home, downloaded Zoom and just got on with it. No new technology was required for that. All the […]

AI tool detects disinformation websites at registrationGovernments, regulators, and social media platforms have struggled to manage the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation online, in large part due to the sheer speed with which it can spread to millions of people. Professor Anil Doshi and his colleagues decided to develop an early detection system, which could […]

VR helps visualise future of forestsThe researchers at Penn State University combined information on forest composition with information on forest ecology to create a forest similar to those found in Wisconsin. In VR, people can walk through a simulated forest of today and see what various futures may hold for the trees in relation to the effects […]

View from India: Data centres get a pandemic pushThe Government of India (GoI) had already begun to push the country towards becoming a digital economy with its Smart Cities and Digital India initiatives before the pandemic struck. However, the crisis accelerated the transition to the digital medium as almost all aspects of daily life – be it […]

This fintech-focused VC firm just closed a $75 million debut fund; backers “came out of the woodwork”It’s no secret that a massive digital transformation is happening within financial services companies and amid the growing number of non-financial outfits that are also adding financial products to their offerings. Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general […]

The U.S. government sends mixed messages about TikTok’s futureThe fate of TikTok in the United States got even more confusing this week. The U.S. Justice and Commerce Departments sent conflicting messages today about TikTok’s future, which is now up in the air with the upcoming administration transition. The Department of Commerce said Thursday it would […]