Nasa knocks Boeing out of race for $3.5bn International Space Station contract, leaving SpaceX, Orbital and Sierra Nevada to fight it out November 6, 2015 Boeing has fallen out of the race to win Nasa's $3.5bn (£2.3bn) contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). The Chicago-based company confirmed yesterday that its participation in the contest had come to an end. "We received some information as part of the letter we received from NASA this morning but until [...]
When people are happy, they’re more likely to have baby boys November 6, 2015 When people are in a state of euphoria and having sex more frequently, the number of baby boys conceived compared to baby girls goes up. This is the conclusion a pair of researchers came to after analysing the sex ratio of live births in South Africa nine months after the country held the Fifa World [...]
Major European investors, including Aberdeen Asset Management and BlackRock Investment Managers, call for ‘on the road’ carbon dioxide emissions testing November 6, 2015 European institutional investors will call on policy makers across the EU today, to include ‘real-drive’ data on CO2 emissions in European tests. This comes days after it emerged Volkswagen has discovered ‘irregularities’ in the carbon dioxide levels of some 800,000 cars. The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has 118 members, including BlackRock Investment [...]
The atmosphere on Mars is being blown away by solar wind, reveals NASA in the latest update of its MAVEN project November 5, 2015 If you’ve ever been annoyed by a gust of wind blowing away your copy of City A.M., be thankful you’re not Mars. The red planet is having its atmosphere blown away by solar wind. In an update today of its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – also known as MAVEN – mission, the National Aeronautics [...]
River Cycleway Consortium has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its Thames floating cycle path plan November 5, 2015 River Cycleway Consortium, the company behind the proposed Thames Deckway, a floating cycle and pedestrian pathway along the capital's main river, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. The group, which is made up of Arup engineers and Hugh Broughton Architects and advised by Kemp Little, is aiming to raise £175,000 to carry out a [...]
If you want to make money out of robots, these are the top sectors to invest in November 5, 2015 We've been told robots are coming to steal our jobs about a million times, but the truth is that if you invest your money wisely, you could benefit from the evolution of robotic technologies. Global robot sales grew for the third year running last year, up 29 per cent from 2013, and according to a [...]
How the NSA’s scaring businesses away from the cloud November 5, 2015 Last year Edward Snowden’s revelations on the US’s surveillance programmes shook public trust in the internet across the world. Now, 88 per cent of businesses are fundamentally rethinking the cloud, and their cloud buying behaviour, according to a new survey of ICT decision makers by NTT Communications. The revelations focused on the National Security Agency’s [...]
JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon: You’re wasting your time with bitcoin – but blockchain has potential November 5, 2015 Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan doesn’t mince his words when it comes to bitcoin’s potential – or lack thereof. Dismissing the digital currency immediately as a “waste of time”, Dimon said when speaking at the Fortune Global Forum that bitcoin was unlikely to survive in the long term: There will be no real, non-controlled currency [...]
Google, Facebook, Twitter: Which tech companies are best at respecting your privacy? November 5, 2015 Worried about what companies like Google and Facebook are doing with all that personal data of yours they have? Google and Vodafone have come out top in a ranking revealing which tech and telecoms companies are best at respecting your digital rights, based on everything from the data they collect to where they sell it and [...]
New iPhone rumoured to be on the way in first half of next year ahead of iPhone 7 launch November 4, 2015 Apple is reported to be working on a new four-inch, metallic iPhone, resembling an upgraded iPhone 5s, due for release in the first half of next year. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed in a research note that “as there is still demand for a four-inch iPhone, we believe Apple will upgrade this product [...]