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News highlights for 14 November 2017 UK doubles number of exceptional talent visas ahead of Brexit LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is to double the number of visas available to exceptional workers in areas like digital technology and science to 2,000 to help retain an edge after Brexit. Read more… Turns out a 10 year old […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump launched a program on Wednesday to expand testing of drones to include flights over people, nighttime operations and flights out of sight of the operator, the White House said. The pilot program aims to speed up the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles into the national airspace system and test […]
LONDON (Reuters) – The World Economic Forum is bringing insurers, tech firms and governments together to find ways to tackle risks from new technology such as drones and driverless cars, it said on Thursday. Tech firms have moved fast to develop new products, but assigning liability – who is responsible for any accidents or losses […]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – HERE, the digital mapping company controlled by Germany’s premium carmakers, aims to expand its business not only to offer navigation for self-driving cars but also drones and advanced robotics, Chief Executive Edzard Overbeek told Reuters. “We are expanding our strategy not just in autonomous driving but also in autonomous things,” Overbeek said […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon has given more than 130 U.S. military bases across the United States the green light to shoot down private and commercial drones that could endanger aviation safety or pose other threats. The number of uncrewed aircraft in U.S. skies has zoomed in recent years and continues to increase rapidly – […]
News highlights for 21 June Oracle’s transition to cloud pays off – profits up (Reuters) – Oracle Corp’s quarterly profit blew past Wall Street estimates and the business software maker forecast an upbeat current-quarter earnings, indicating that the company’s transition to cloud is starting to pay off. Read more… Amazon’s Whole Foods deal is playing […]
News highlights for 8 June BT drops PwC as auditors after BT Italy scandal (Reuters) – Britain’s BT said on Thursday it would drop PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), its auditors since 1984, in favor of KPMG after an evaluation done following BT’s Italy accounting scandal revealed “areas for improvement” for PwC. Read more… Bain replacing KKR in […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe’s aviation safety authorities have proposed rules for operating small drones that include requirements for geo-fencing technology to prevent them from straying into banned areas and a “dos and don’ts” leaflet to be inserted in retail packaging. With demand booming, both for hobby and commercial use, European regulators have been looking for […]
Recently, in interviews, bars and conferences, people have dropped lines into the conversation that have – quite radically – changed the way I think about the future. The first was during an interview with Simon Montford, Edinburgh based entrepreneur and IoT enthusiast. We were talking about how the IoT will evolve and I was […]
In the latest revelation from Snap, ahead of its IPO, as a ‘camera company’ comes news that it has been working on drones. It takes a moment for the mind to go from ‘the app that makes your pictures disappear’ to cameras in the sky, but only a moment. Then you tend to go from […]
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