• UK Civil Aviation Authority selects six innovators for Innovation Sandbox

  Innovators will get the opportunity to test their emerging concepts in a new virtual space...
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• Innovate UK offers £2m grant for early-stage immersive businesses

  Innovate UK, in partnership with 11 private investment firms, is offering grant funding of up...
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• UK, South Korea launch £2.4m challenge to test 5G technology

  Trials under the programme will allow businesses and researchers to study and address various user...
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• South Yorkshire Police gets approval to develop drone capability

  The South Yorkshire Police has secured approval from senior officers for the development of drone...
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• OutSystems bids to improve software development processes with expansion of Project Turing AI initiative

  Low code platform specialist OutSystems has launched a new programme to advance the company’s goal of bringing new artificial intelligence…
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• Quantum computing, AI, cyber and blockchain get boost from Hammond’s Budget – but unimpressed PAC warns of Brexit ‘elephant in the room’

  Quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security and blockchain were the ‘winners’ in terms of technologies to benefit from Chancellor…
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• Europe’s Digital Agenda (22-26 October)

  Welcome to this edition of Europe’s Digital Agenda. In this space I uncover and detail last week’s digital developments from…
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• GDS still thinks ‘the Internet is OK’ – and now wants to test post PSN plans

  Eighteen months after the Government Digital Service (GDS) said ‘The Internet is OK’, thus signalling a move away from the…
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• Will cities become smarter with blockchain?

  Paul Brody and Mark MacDonald from EY argue the applications for blockchain at the city level will be very similar…
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• Government makes innovation calls to beef up NHS tech and drive economic growth

  The government has issued two calls for innovation, one for the NHS and one for Innovate UK, which it hopes…
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