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Data protection guidance for AI systems
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently published its draft ‘Guidance on the AI Auditing Framework’, writes Georgina Perrott, Solicitor with Birketts LLP.The term AI is used to refer to...
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Much we can do to slash the carbon footprint of our buildings
The launch of our Cambridge Commercial Edge research report, the findings of which I discussed last month, in many ways seems like a distant memory, writes Will Mooney, partner at Carter Jonas in...
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Bango nets almost £10m from Korean Big Data powerhouse
South Korean Big Data business NHN Corp is investing almost £10 million in Cambridge UK mobile payments technology specialist Bango to strengthen the companies’ global partnership.NHN is taking a 4.7...
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Cambridge startup raising capital to transform drug target selection
An exciting young Cambridge company is raising fresh capital and seeking talented new recruits as it bids to revolutionise drug target selection.Oppilotech Ltd has homed in on what it calls the most...
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Apollo shoots for the stars with AI weapon for Coronavirus fight
A bleeding edge machine learning platform fashioned through artificial Intelligence is being hailed as a critical new weapon in the fight against coronavirus.Apollo, developed by Cambridge UK business...
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Short-time working and lay-off
During periods of economic uncertainty, and particularly in view of the sudden and significant impact of COVID-19 on many sectors, employers may want to consider some alternatives to redundancies – in...
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Censo pledges 15,000 COVID-19 tests a month after Hancock’s SOS
Cambridge-based drug discovery business Censo Biotechnologies is repurposing its laboratories at Babraham Research Campus and Roslin near Edinburgh, to help meet Matt Hancock's challenge to complete...
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Code is king in vital Raspberry Pi educational mission
Philip Colligan, CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, explains how the foundation is reinforcing its educational mission by helping students, teachers and volunteers to make the most of online learning...
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Treatt toasts champagne share rise after brief dose of lemon squash
Ingredient solutions business Treatt plc reports robust trading, free of COVID-19 impact, in all its global territories for the half-year to March 31. As a result, its UK share price shot up more than...
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Extraordinary times, extraordinary measures
Detailed guidance on the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has recently been announced, writes David Mills, Partner at Mills & Reeve LLP. The offer to reimburse employers 80 per cent of...
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Back to the future with global demand for Cambridge ‘FluPhone’ app
A Cambridge invention designed to fight Swine Flu in 2009 is in global demand as a potential weapon in the fight against COVID-19.The sought after innovation is a smartphone app originated in Cambridge...
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Avacta’s COVID-19 test diagnoses victims in minutes
A rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19 that gives results in just minutes is being developed and manufactured for population screening by Cambridge UK business Avacta and Cytiva – formerly GE Healthcare...
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Natural language breakthrough marks dawn of a golden era for quantum computing
Globally-renowned Cambridge Quantum Computing has wowed the technology world with an astonishing breakthrough in the field.The UK company reveals that it has used the ‘natively quantum’ structure of...
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AstraZeneca tracks coronavirus antibody remedy in historic global alliance
AstraZeneca, the transformative Big Biotech business, steered from Cambridge UK, has joined forces with government and academia in an historic global alliance designed to discover novel...
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PwC’s Steele shows her mettle by going it alone in tech-savvy Cambridge
PwC’s inspirational head of Cambridge office Sian Steele is leaving the firm after more than 20 years and going solo in the Cambridge UK science & technology heartland.Steele has been largely...
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Cambridge AgriTech park developers vow to fight on after fresh planning setback
With many areas of the UK suffering major food shortages because of the coronavirus outbreak – and that’s before Brexit kicks in – the Government has rejected on appeal plans for a world-leading new...
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AstraZeneca wades into the ‘storm’ with fastest clinical trial in its history
The fastest launch of any clinical trial in the history of Cambridge-based Big Biotech, AstraZeneca, could lead to a treatment for the exaggerated immune response associated with COVID-19 infection in...
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Grounded planes could become oxygen chambers to treat COVID-19 patients
A team of life-support system experts in Cambridge is spearheading a global initiative that could see thousands of grounded aircraft transformed into potentially life-saving hyperbaric oxygen chambers...
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Abcam takes revenue hit but predicts strong bounceback
Cambridge life sciences business Abcam estimates 2020 full year revenue between £14 million and £16m lower – as calculated at April 17 – because of the global impact of COVID-19.But the UK company,...
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Sphere Fluidics receives Queen’s Award for Enterprise
Cambridge’s Sphere Fluidics, commercialising single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation. The award recognises...
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