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View from Manchester: China watches the wheels on ImaginationImagination Technologies’ Chinese owners have this morning relented on their controversial plans to redomicile the UK graphics-to-AI company in the Middle Kingdom. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden is seeking a urgent meeting with the CEO of the fund immediately involved, Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, so that the government […]

EU-wide Covid-19 contact tracing best for privacy, watchdog saysA promising method for containing the novel coronavirus is contact tracing; tracking everybody that an infected person has been in contact with and recommending self-isolation in order to prevent the virus spreading further. Contact tracing has been carried out manually in Taiwan – which has a comparatively […]

Social media should be held to account for spread of 5G coronavirus conspiraciesJulian Knight, the chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Select Committee, has called for members of the public to send in examples of disinformation to help with its inquiry into “Disinformation on Covid-19”. At least seven mobile masts have been […]

Can AI techniques improve the lifespan and safety of batteries?The researchers, from Cambridge and Newcastle Universities, have said the new model could aid in the development of safer and more reliable batteries for electric vehicles and consumer electronics. The method monitors batteries by sending electrical pulses into them and measuring the response. These measurements are […]

Oceans’ ‘biological pump’ harvesting twice as much carbon as previously thoughtThe BCP effectively takes CO2 from the atmosphere and deposits it into the ocean interior and sediments on the seafloor. The cycle is primarily led by phytoplankton, a catch-all term for microscopic lifeforms that live in the ocean and encompassing photosynthesising bacteria, green algae and […]

View from India: Covid-19 keeps R&D busyThe Government of India (GoI) and state governments, along with science and technical institutions, are working on various solutions and test kits to detect symptoms of the virus. These innovative scientific measures will help in bolstering the Make in India Initiative. The Department of Science and Technology-Science and Engineering […]

MyBuddy.ai, a virtual tutor for kids learning English, raises $1 million seed roundMyBuddy.ai, a startup that develops virtual tools to help kids learn English, announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from LETA Capital. The capital will be used to expand into new markets and develop new features including mini-classes about […]