2016 July

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Once the stuff of science fiction movies scientists have managed to grow a (small) brain in a jar.   Scientists…

Local Motors represents a new breed of company, one that competitors would be wise to watch out for Local Motors, an Arizona based automaker that…

[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”@mgriffin_uk” suffix=”#3D #Cinema #MIT”]3D cinemas without the glasses[/inlinetweet] just got a shot in the arm, this must be the sequel Avatar first premiered in…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Not only will drone deliveries cut down the length of time that consumers have to wait for their goods to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Researchers around the world are racing to be first to create a viable cure for Cancer, now a team in…

The field of artificial intelligence has been static for quite a while; AI funding started plunging in the late seventies after the US government became…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D bioprinting has long held the promise of ending organ donation lists, now there’s an end in sight.   A team…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Move over Heston Blumenthal there’s a new chef in town   Later this month, a 3D Printing pop up restaurant,…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Only half the world is connected, Facebook’s connecting the other half.   Facebook has achieved the first successful test flight…

The amount of energy consumed by the world’s largest hyper scale data centers has always posed the technology companies that run them with a conundrum….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF ESA have laid out their plans to colonise the Moon by 2030.   The European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Caltech have built a new kind of microchip that can learn to heal its own information pathways.   One of the…