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We're talking Intel laying off 15,000 people, the ChipStart incubator, a super power tunnel in London, and Airbus building two microwave radiometers  for CNES...

National Grid has energised its 2.5km 275kV power tunnel between Hurst substation and Crayford, one of the transmission circuits in the 32.5km LPT2 route across south London. “The previous cables between Hurst and Crayford were reaching the end of their operational life, having been commissioned in 1967 and having served London reliably for decades,” according to National Grid, which explained: ...

The International Cyber Expo is next week in London. “Cyber security vendors will rub shoulders with the decision-makers in the sector,” according to the IASME Consortium. “Heads of information security from enterprises, government, critical national infrastructure and public sector organisations will connect in person again to hear about the latest innovations and solve critical cyber security issues.” IASME will be ...

UK tech companies have raised more venture capital funding in the first five months of 2022 than in the whole of 2020. This puts the UK second to the US globally when it comes to startup investment and means that UK startups are outperforming those in China, France and India, when it comes to attracting funding, according to data by ...

The City of London is to get a small cell mobile communication pilot project, offering multi-operator 4G and 5G connectivity at street level. “If the pilot is successful, the ambition is for a City-wide deployment that will deliver faster mobile connectivity speeds across the Square Mile”, according to network service provider Freshwave, which will be working with mobile infrastructure services provider Cornerstone ...

Make a date in your diary if you want to attend this year's Summer Science Exhibition in London: it runs 6 - 10 July 2022.

Crypto Quantique is a London company created to licence technology that provides end-to-end encrypted security for embedded systems. Its products include a hardware root-of-trust, which has already been licenced to a “a big semiconductor company for a high-end MCU”, according to company co-founder and CEO Shahram Mossayebi (pictured). Mossayebi should know about security: he has an MSc in information security and ...

London start-up Satori has launched a resin-style 3D printer for professional users, and a partnership programme to go with it. The printer, called ST1600, offers a 120 x 192mm build area 120mm tall, was designed in London and is made in China. This style of printer, often called ‘MLSA’ for mask stereolithography, uses an LCD as a shutter to control which ...

Prime Minister announces £2.3 billion of private investment in UK tech and the creation of 1,600 new jobs

Research conducted by Studio Graphene, an agency that supports start-ups to commercial status, charts the experiences of tech start-up founders’ experiences. (Spoiler alert: it’s not as easy as they thought.) The survey of over 100 founders of London-based tech business reported finding over half found it took longer than they thought to launch a business and 15% found it more ...