After the success of the Testnet and the positive feedback from the community, BTCU Ultimatum launches the BTCU Mainnet, an operational and running next-gen blockchain that aims to make the technology an integral part of our lives. More than one year in the making, an integral team of experts in crypto have made possible the […]
· The openbusinesscouncil Summit and Awards, in partnership with citiesabc and World Smart Cities Forum, is an online event with the aim to strengthen businesses, startups and government’s strategies post COVID-19. · The awards jury panel is made up of technology influencers and academics in partnership with the World Smart Cities Forum, and top universities. […]
The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has approved plans to transform the city’s Champs-Élysées into a mile-long stretch of greenery and pedestrianised zones. The €255 million project aims to halve the number of cars on the famous boulevard, thus transforming it, in Hidalgo’s words, into an “extraordinary park at the heart of Paris”. The need […]
New software solution enables communications service providers to deliver innovative 5G use cases to consumers and enterprises with guaranteed performance Built on Ericsson radio expertise and a scalable and flexible architecture, the new solution supports customized business models and growth requirements of advanced use cases Ericsson 5G RAN Slicing strengthens end-to-end network slicing capabilities needed […]
More than 500 Urban Areas Around The World expected to adopt Digital Twin technology by 2025 The need to increase resilience and optimise resource management in light of COVID-19 will be among the key drivers for the growth of Digital Twins over the next five years, according to ABI Research. The global tech market advisory firm expects […]
For the first time the challenge is a global competition, which seeks to identify and accelerate the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Bloomberg Philanthropies has launched the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, which seeks to identify and accelerate the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the […]
The impact of the pandemic on businesses in facts, figures and statistic As we enter the new year, some trends seem to carry over. That includes the pandemic of 2020, which speeded up the digital transformation of many businesses and changed the way we work. Now 43% of the workforce work remotely at least some […]
Genesis Mining, the world’s leading institutional crypto mining company, has announced the launch of a new pilot project that will focus on recycling excess energy waste from crypto mining facilities into sustainable heat and energy to power greenhouses. The pilot project’s objective is to address concerns about the excess energy waste generated by crypto mining […]
In the second Smart Centres Index (SCI 2), New York takes the top spot from London, while Singapore holds third place. The top 10 centres in SCI 2 are all in countries with a high performing university sector across the fields of Engineering & Technology, and Mathematics, each having multiple universities rated in the top […]
Large companies stimulated to spend between £5.8bn and £6.5bn on innovation Increase in patents filed after first year of claim SME claimants on average have ten times revenue size compared to non-claimants Firms using the Patent Box Scheme display a 10% increase in capital investment The R&D tax relief schemes and R&D expenditure credit (RDEC) […]