The UK government publishes its ‘modern industrial strategy’, by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, with ten “pillars” to underpin a new approach.

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Prime Minister Theresa May’s blueprint for a Modern Industrial Strategy is being welcomed by the industry and tech investment sector.

Read full article: Tech sector welcomes May’s industrial blueprint

Check out a new post on the Arduino blog, showing how to build your own Bluetooth Smart thermometer, based on a Genuino 101, a digital temperature sensor and smartphone app.

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Gerard Grech, CEO of TechCity sees the Prime Minister’s Modern Industrial Strategy as a “good first step on the way to building an exciting partnership between tech firms and government”. According to Grech, tech and digital sector in this country employs 1.6 million people and is growing at almost three times the rate of the wider economy. “We welcome the …

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GREAT SUCCESS OF BRITISH COMPUTER 56 years ago, this was the headline on an article in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 19th 1960. The story opens: WORLD-WIDE acceptance of a British made computer indicates the growing demand for medium size computing systems. Elliott Brothers have successfully marketed their 803 solid state computer not only on …

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Watson cognitive computing will combine external and streetlight data to optimize lighting for public safety, traffic, energy, you name it.

Starting today, you can easily create cross-region read replicas for your Amazon RDS for MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL database instances encrypted at rest with AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Previously, you could create cross-region read replicas for unencrypted database instances only, and the only option for creating copies of encrypted database instances was to copy encrypted DB snapshots to the target region. Now, you can create cross-region read replicas for your encrypted database instances in just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console.

No.10 have been badgering me about what my department is doing about driverless cars, Ed confides to his diary, it’s a lot of nonsense but it’s the tech obsession du jour and you might as well argue with a doorpost as with the present lot at No.10. I’ve come up with an approach which will …

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Tsinghua Unigroup said yesterday that it would build a $30 billion, 300k wpm fab in Nanjing.

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An artificial intelligence does well on a test that is said to measures abstract reasoning in humans.

Read full article: Computer beats the ‘average American’ in intelligence test