Category: Technology

The gender pay gap is a measure across all jobs in UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), not of the difference in pay between males and females for doing the same job. UKRI’s mean gender pay gap (GPG) has narrowed by 0.6 percentage points since 2022.The figures show that in 2024, UKRI’s mean gender pay gap […]

Evan Feinman, the director of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, has been removed from his post by the Trump administration amid a broader review of the program. This move is part of a larger reassessment of the initiative, which aims to improve broadband access, particularly in underserved rural areas. The […]

Seregraff/Shutterstock A lot of dog owners believe that they can tell what their dogs are feeling. They believe that they can assess their dog’s emotions no matter the context. Yet newspapers frequently publish stories about dogs who attack “out of nowhere”, where owners claim there were “no signs” prior to the attack. A recent US […]

Seregraff/Shutterstock A lot of dog owners believe that they can tell what their dogs are feeling. They believe that they can assess their dog’s emotions no matter the context. Yet newspapers frequently publish stories about dogs who attack “out of nowhere”, where owners claim there were “no signs” prior to the attack. A recent US […]

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the Nasa astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months, have finally returned to Earth. Spacesuits were an important consideration that Nasa had to factor into its plans to bring the astronauts back home. Wilmore and Williams had travelled to the ISS in Boeing’s experimental […]

A significant security breach occurred at New York University (NYU) this past Saturday, as hackers infiltrated the university’s website, compromising the personal data of over 3 million applicants. The breach lasted for at least two hours and exposed sensitive information, including applicants’ names, test scores, chosen majors, financial details, zip codes, and family member information, […]

How new technologies are improving many aspects of our world from plastics recycling to food production and consumption, to transport and communication are highlighted in a new collection of projects funded by UKRI. The technologies are all supported through UKRI’s Technology Missions Fund which is investing over £320 million in: artificial intelligence (AI) quantum technologies […]

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence of bone tool making was from sites in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago. But archaeologists have now found and dated […]

STACK Infrastructure has recently secured $4 billion in green financing to support the development of a more than 1 gigawatt campus in Stafford, VA, alongside additional campuses in Portland, OR, and Toronto, CA. Since 2019, the Denver-based company has raised $9 billion for its Virginia projects. On a broader scale, it has amassed $20 billion […]

Dell Technologies is ramping up its AI capabilities with a suite of new hardware and software aimed at accelerating enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) development. Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Dell AI Factory collaboration with Nvidia, the company introduced a range of new products, including high-performance servers, AI-specific PCs, and an expanded AI data platform. […]