Five FinTech startups to watch: RBS, Lloyds and American Express back finance innovation June 17, 2015 Five tech startups seeking to disrupt the financial industry have caught the eye of some of the world's leading firms in the sector. A savings app, a company using visual cryptography to create secure passwords and a real-time sales platform for local businesses are just three of the winners in the search for startups creating [...]
Applied Graphene share price rises as Japan Patent Office approves production June 17, 2015 British company Applied Graphene has won approval for graphene production from the Japanese Patent Office. It is the first time the firm, which was founded in 2010, has been granted approval following an application, and sheds a positive light on the prospect of winning consent from the other five countries it has approached. [...]
Why those ultra-marathons coulkd actually be dangerous: Extreme exercise can lead to blood poisoning June 17, 2015 Here's one for extreme exercise enthusiasts like Mark Carney and Anthony Jenkins: taking on extreme events like ultramarathons could actually give you blood poisoning, new research has shown. Read more: Doing no exercise is worse for your health than being overweight Researchers at Monash University in Australia looked at the bloodstreams of people taking [...]
London Technology Week: Britain’s brilliant at FinTech – now it must realise its global ambitions June 17, 2015 Anyone who’s seen Love Actually will remember the speech by Hugh Grant as the Prime Minister when he stands up to the US President and explains some of the unique things about Great Britain that make our nation truly great. “We may be a small country, but we're a great one, too. The country of [...]
London’s kitchens are mobile dead zones and mobile operators are failing homes with 4G signal June 16, 2015 Britain’s homes are plagued by a modern day menace – the mobile phone dead zone. Mobile blackspots – where not even yoga-worthy manoeuvres can't get that hilarious cat gif to work – afflict a whopping 40 per cent of the population. It may be the heart of the home, but a Londoner’s kitchen is the [...]
London’s getting an insurance tech accelerator as Startupbootcamp expands FinTech startup search June 16, 2015 A new global tech accelerator has been launched London which will search for tech companies around the world which can bring new innovation to the traditional world of insurance and its well-established companies. As FinTech takes off in the capital like never before, tech accelerator Startupbootcamp has added the new sector to its roster to [...]
A Londoner has been fitted with the world’s most life-like bionic hand June 16, 2015 A 29-year-old woman from London has been given the most-life-like bionic hand ever created. Read more: Super-intelligent robots could soon fight our wars – but here's how we'll stop them turning against us Nicky Ashwell, who was born without a right hand, was fitted with the prosthetic at the London Prosthetics Centre, and is now able [...]
Dislike: Belgium thinks Facebook tracks too much personal data, so it’s taking it to court June 16, 2015 Another day, another country in Europe takes a dislike to the activities of large American tech firms. This time, it's Belgium, where regulators have given a thumbs down to the way Facebook is tracking users information via cookies, as well as "likes" and "shares". Facebook uses this kind of information to sell advertising. The Belgian [...]
Scientists know when you’re unemployed… just from your phone calls June 16, 2015 As if you didn't already feel like you're phone knows more about you than, well, you, scientists can now use it to tell whether you have a job or not. Researchers from MIT have managed to identify people's employment levels simply through analysing how they use their mobile phone. It may sound creepy, but it [...]
Air pollution could be making us stupider as our brains disintegrate June 16, 2015 High levels of air pollution could be causing brain loss in humans, according to a report in the Annals of Neurobiology. Read more: London's Oxford Street is world's worst place for toxic NO2 pollutant By studying the brains of over a thousand women aged between 71 and 89, the researchers at the University of [...]