Tech Nation’s fall must not mean the end of UK’s global talent visa February 1, 2023 The future of Britain’s global talent visa – otherwise known as the tech visa – is in doubt after the winding down of Tech Nation. It shouldn’t be. One of the successes of Britain’s transition out of the European Union has been the professional side of the immigration system. The transition for those seeking ‘settled [...]
Nuclear- The Comeback February 1, 2023 | Sponsored It’s safe to say that nuclear power in the UK has some hurdles to overcome if it is wants to turn ambition into delivery. but the development of a fleet of small modular reactors (SMRs) alongside larger stations could propel the industry into a new atomic age with serious energy security and net zero benefits. [...]
City will be shaken up by AI – so we asked ChatGPT for an equities strategy February 1, 2023 Artificial intelligence and machine learning is set to transform trading over the next three years, a JP Morgan survey shows, as traders anticipate the potential for new technologies to shake up trading floors. Over half of traders surveyed in JP Morgan’s eTrading survey predicted that AI and machine learning will be the most influential technology [...]
Samsung committed to investing in semiconductors despite crash in demand for consumer gadgets January 31, 2023 Samsung Electronics will continue investing in the production of computer chips, despite profits from sales of the computer component sinking to their lowest since 2009. The world’s largest chipmaker reported £178bn (270bn won) in fourth-quarter semiconductor earnings on Tuesday, down from 8.83 trillion won from the same period last year. Samsung said demand has significantly [...]
Tech Nation to shut down after government controversially gives funding to Barclays January 31, 2023 Start-up network Tech Nation is to be wound down after the government controversially withdrew its funding and handed it to Barclays, the organisation announced today. Tech Nation, founded by the coalition government in 2010, said it would cease operations from the end of March after the Department for Culture Media and Sport confirmed it had [...]
Banks struggle with digital transition as new data shows 10 per cent of customer records are duplicated January 30, 2023 Major banks are struggling to manage their digital records as new data shows that around ten per cent of customer records are duplicated. Quantexa, a data analytics firm, asked 356 IT and data experts working in the UK, USA and Canada how many customer records were duplicated in their respective sectors. In the banking industry, [...]
Why We’re Just Normal Men is the best comedy account on Twitter January 30, 2023 It has taken me almost a year to come across the best comedy account left on Twitter. While the glory days of conceptual Twitter comedy appear to have passed, sometimes an account appears on your radar that still has the ability to floor you. We’re Just Normal Men is one of those accounts. Classics accounts [...]
I’m sorry but the internet is at it again. The real reason OnlyFans users are posting unsolvable riddles on TikTok January 30, 2023 The internet has been at it again. The lucrative sliver of Venn diagram between OnlyFans and TikTok has figured out that posting nonsense pseudo-riddles is a great way of amplifying engagement. Now there are loads of them, including the one explained below. As I bravely reported a few weeks ago, a (presumably) 26-year-old nursing assistant [...]
Hambro SPAC ditches merger talks with biotech firm January 30, 2023 Hambro Perks Acquisition Company (HPAC), a pioneering special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), has abandoned plans for a merger with biotech firm Istesso. HPAC, which became the first SPAC to float in London in November 2021 after regulators overhauled UK rules, had been in talks with Istesso over a planned merger. Istesso is part-owned by London-listed [...]
Philips cuts 6,000 more jobs as electronics giant’s faulty sleep device pushes it into the red by £1.49bn January 30, 2023 Philips is cutting 6,000 jobs globally in a bid to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of its supply chains. The Dutch health technology firm said it would cut around eight per cent of its workforce by 2025, as it counts the costs of suspected faulty sleep devices which it is still recalling. In its [...]