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Heriot-Watt University has taken its first major step towards creating a ‘space cluster’ at its Edinburgh campus. Edinburgh City Council recently approved milestone plans for a £2.5m, state-of-the-art telescope station at the University’s Research Park on the western outskirts of
The Digital Security by Design (DSbD) Technology Access Programme (TAP) is designed to give UK-based companies access to the Arm designed Morello board, CHERI stack, and technical support to trial these technologies within their systems, products, and applications. Through the DSbD Technology
smartR AI™ and EPCC are working together on an AI trial using the Cerebras CS-2 Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) system. The results so far have shown a dramatic reduction in AI training times. ScotlandIS member, EPCC, believes the impressive results from
One Singaporean company and four businesses based in England will collaborate with Scottish universities on new projects following funding from the Inward Investment Catalyst Fund. The academic institutions include ScotlandIS members Heriot-Watt University, Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of St Andrews.
An international prize worth £1.2 million has been launched in a bid to find innovative technologies capable of purifying water buried beneath the moon’s lunar surface. The new Aqualunar Challenge, in collaboration with the UK Space Agency, Challenge Works, the Canadian Space
Innovative technology to help women deal with menopause symptoms and satellite monitoring to limit the spread of disease in trees are just two of the solutions which have been selected for the accelerator stage of CivTech round 9, a Scottish Government-funded programme.
A site in the Shetland Islands has become the UK’s first spaceport for vertical rocket launches. SaxaVord Spaceport on the small island of Unst has been given approval from the Civil Aviation Authority to begin orbital launches in 2024. It
A multi-million boost awarded to two companies based north of the border will help to “ensure Scotland remains at the forefront of space technology”, UK Government minister for Scotland John Lamont has said. HyImpulse UK, a launch company working with
Almost a third (32%) of organisations in Scotland are currently using AI tools, compared to 26% six months ago One in five workers (19%) now using an AI tool as part of their role Well over half (59%) of employers expect to
Ahead of marking ten years since its inception, The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, has published an impact report outlining the benefits it has brought to both the Scottish economy and job creation. The report, available on the centre’s
