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Robot surgeons lend NHS a helping handWestern General Hospital in Edinburgh was first to use the new robotic arm technology in Europe, followed by Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Trust in Buckinghamshire. The robot, called Versius, is designed to perform keyhole surgery, also known as minimal invasive surgery or laparoscopy – a complicated procedure that […]

Google to move UK user data out of the EU, opening up police accessReuters reports that the shift is being made after the UK left the EU last month and it could allow British law enforcement greater access to the data. It is currently unclear whether Britain intends to stick to GDPR rules, which EU […]

Police deploy facial recognition in central LondonCameras mounted on dark blue police vans were spotted near Oxford Circus underground station, next to a sign warning the public that the Metropolitan Police is using live facial recognition. A photograph of the set-up was shared by civil liberties group Big Brother Watch on Twitter. Facial recognition cameras […]

Fossil fuel industry breaks wind more than expectedFollowing carbon dioxide, methane is the gas most strongly associated with climate change. Its emissions have increased by approximately 150 per cent over the past three centuries. Compared with carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases it has a relatively short shelf-life. It lasts an average of only nine […]

Robin Hood VR retelling among rural 5G projectsThe Rural Connected Communities competition welcomed entries from across the UK, calling for projects making use of 5G. The nine winners of the competition will receive a share of the £35m in government funding dedicated to finding new ways for all areas of the UK to take up […]

EV fleet management gets another venture-backed contender as Electriphi raises $3.5 millionElectriphi, a provider of charging management and fleet monitoring software for electric vehicles, has joined the scrum of startups looking to provide services to the growing number of electric vehicle fleets in the U.S. The San Francisco-based company has just raised $3.5 million in […]

At Tock, this restaurant group owner and former trader is building a Spotify for reservationsTock, a nine-year-old, Chicago-based culinary reservation service, has never had the kind of brand-recognition that other companies in the space have enjoyed, from publicly traded OpenTable to Resy, the New York-based company that was founded in 2014 and acquired last year […]