Tag: Blue Origin
UK plans to be world leader in AI, Apple urges vote against scrapping DEI programmes
The government is to set out plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) across the UK to boost growth and deliver public services more efficiently. The AI Opportunities Action Plan being announced on Monday will be backed by leading tech firms, which are said to have committed £14bn towards various projects, creating 13,250 jobs, the government…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google sued for over £20 billion by publishers
Google is being sued for up to €25bn (£21.6bn) over claims it has deprived newspapers and internet bloggers of billions of pounds in advertising revenues. The Big Tech giant is facing class action complaints in the UK and the Netherlands that it used its advertising technology to unfairly sideline publishers while hoovering up ad revenues. …
Tech Digest daily roundup: Blue Origin loses NASA court case
Image: A Blue Origin rocket blasts off into space A judge has dismissed Jeff Bezos's private spaceflight company Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA over the awarding of a moon-landing contract to SpaceX. In a single-page ruling, which Blue Origin has until 18 November to redact before it is released in full, the…
Tech Digest daily roundup: AI can tell if it’s going to rain in next 2 hours
Artificial intelligence can tell whether it is going to rain in the next two hours, research suggests. Scientists at Google-owned London AI lab DeepMind and the University of Exeter partnered with the Met Office to build the so-called nowcasting system. Traditional methods use complex equations and often forecast for only between six hours and two…
Tech Digest daily round up: Home electric car chargers hacked
Security researchers have discovered failings in two home electric car chargers. The researchers were able to make the chargers switch on or off, remove the owner's access, and show how a hacker could get into a user's home network. Most of the faults have now been fixed, but owners are being told to update their…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Royal Marines uses drone swarms in battle drills
In a first for the UK's armed forces, Royal Marines have used drone swarms to assist in battle drills. Autonomous machines were present in the air, on the sea and underwater to help the soldiers as they carried out simulated raids on missile and radar installations across the UK. Those in charge of the trials…
Tech Digest daily round up: Dating apps introduce Covid vaccine badges
UK online daters will be able to choose to display a badge on their profiles to show if they have been vaccinated against Covid or support the jab drive. However there will be no way of verifying whether those displaying the badge have genuinely had the vaccine. Tinder, Match, Hinge, Bumble, Badoo, Plenty of Fish,…
Tech Digest daily round up: Scientists invent flat pasta that morphs into 3D shapes
An interdisciplinary team of scientists specialising in material science, mechanical engineering, and computer-aided fabrication are making a new type of pasta dough that remains flat during storage, but can morph into tubes, spirals, twists, and waves when cooked. The scientists, including those from the Morphing Matter Lab at the Carnegie Mellon University in the US, believe…
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to send spaceship to moon
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has announced he is going to send a spaceship to the moon. Mr Bezos said his space company Blue Origin will land a robotic ship the size of a small house, capable of carrying four rovers and using a newly designed rocket engine. It would be followed by a version that…
