BBC wins the race for London Marathon broadcast rights for another five years June 20, 2022 The BBC will broadcast the London Marathon for a further five years after extending its long-standing rights agreement with the race’s organisers. The new deal begins with this year’s edition of the 26-mile race, which is due to take place on 2 October, and runs until 2026, marking 45 years of live coverage on the [...]
Get ready for the biggest transport disruption in decades as half of all Britain’s rail lines will close this coming week June 18, 2022 Network Rail said this week that more than half of all Britain’s rail lines will be closed during next week’s strikes. Network Rail said no passenger services will serve locations such as Penzance in Cornwall, Bournemouth in Dorset, Swansea in South Wales, Holyhead in North Wales, Chester in Cheshire and Blackpool, Lancashire. There will also [...]
Jurassic Park’s sound designer reveals the secret sounds of the dinosaurs June 17, 2022 For sound designer Al Nelson, jobs don’t come much bigger than Jurassic Park. When the technician started out in the industry in the late nineties, one of his first big jobs was The Lost World, Steven Spielberg’s follow-up to Jurassic Park, the film which birthed the seismic dinosaur franchise. In the 25 years since, Nelson [...]
A decade on, the London Olympics were a lightning rod for urban regeneration June 17, 2022 The London Olympics helped a decade of regeneration in Stratford
As commuters face days of disruption, we need to build a modern transport network June 17, 2022 For a year now, e-scooters have been zipping around London since they were first rolled out as part of a trial last June. It’s hard to comprehend how much urban transport has changed since then. There are the sweeping, existential issues of climate change and the role of transport emissions, there is the political and [...]
London Tech Week, Day Four: Building the workplaces of tomorrow June 16, 2022 As we moved into the second half of London Tech Week, focus shifted from the trends witnessed over the last year, to what we can expect from the future. One issue in particular was exploring what is in store for the future of work. The demand for people with the skills capable of facilitating the [...]
UK small businesses being priced out of cyber insurance by high premiums and cost-of-living crunch June 16, 2022 The UK’s small businesses are increasingly being priced out of cyber insurance policies, due to sky-high premiums and the cost-of-living crunch. Almost a third (29 per cent) of companies with fewer than 250 staff cancelled their cyber insurance policies last year, as part of efforts to cut costs, research from GlobalData shows. A further 17.3 [...]
Use windfall tax to improve energy efficiency of British homes, argues climate charity Ashden June 16, 2022 The government should funnel revenues from the windfall tax into making the UK's housing stock more energy efficient, says Ashden.
Business travel rebound at risk as travel chaos plays out on our screens June 16, 2022 Stephen Hammond is the Conservative MP for Wimbledon and the chair of the all party parliamentary group on business travel The pandemic had a dramatic impact on aviation. Airports closed their doors. Airlines went bust. Staff were let go. Britain was well and truly grounded. Fast forward to this Easter, and the situation couldn’t be [...]
Even if Google’s chatbot isn’t sentient, we need to think seriously about AI June 16, 2022 Can a chatbot be sentient? That was one of the questions facing Google recently after it put an engineer on leave after he claimed their AI-driven bot talked about “having a soul”. Many of the solutions to the global crises we face will be driven by technological advances. Politicians from across the spectrum espouse the [...]