Colleges NI officially unveiled Further Education’s top innovators on the 27th May and rewarded them for coming up with a raft of exciting new projects linked to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). A range of prizes and awards were presented at the Business & Education Through Skills & Training (BEST) [...]
Belfast has joined the Open Data Institute's network, becoming the first open data node in Northern Ireland. Belfast joins the existing 18 nodes which bring together companies, universities, and NGOs who are committed to building openness into their operations, and ensuring open data is for everyone. Cairo joined at the [...]
Italian researchers have discovered that spraying spiders with graphene makes them produce a silk strong enough to catch an aeroplane dropping from the sky. The researchers from the University of Trento combined particles or nanotubes of graphene and sprayed the liquid on to spiders, which soon began spinning silk covered with [...]
The European Commission has unveiled its detailed plans to create a Digital Single Market, helping to remove the online barriers which mean citizens miss out on goods and services. Only 15% of internet users currently shop online from another EU country, meaning internet companies and start-ups cannot take full advantage of growth [...]
A new initiative to help voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations develop and implement new digital social innovations in Northern Ireland has been launched. Digital technology holds huge potential to help the VCSE sector develop new solutions to social problems. The Techies in Residence programme will bring together the respective expertise [...]
Over 200 FE students will showcase their creativity and innovation in STEM projects at the 5th annual BEST event in Belfast's Ramada Plaza Hotel on the 27th May. The BEST Awards are open to students from Northern Ireland's (NI) six regional FE colleges and offer an annual competition linked to their studies in the areas of [...]
A team led by Matrix panellist Jim McLaughlin has joined forces with a Silicon Valley Medtech company in a bid to create a real life Tricorder - the fictional hand held device featured in Star Trek. The local team, called zensor, and the US team, Scanadu, were named as two of ten [...]
A PayPal executive who works with engineers and developers to find and test new technologies says that embeddable, injectable, and ingestible devices are the next wave in identification for mobile payments. PayPal’s global head of developer evangelism, Jonathan Leblanc, argues that technology has taken a huge leap forward to “true [...]
From 21st April, Google will update its search algorithms so that "mobile friendliness" affects the prominence of your website' s position in the search results. Other criteria will include the size of text and how well content fits on a mobile screen. Google says mobile friendliness is only one of many [...]
Belfast's Big Data Conference (part of the worldwide interactive Big Data Week event) will take place on the 23rd April. Speakers from HP, Sky, Amazon Web Services, Royal Mail and JustGiving will be there to advise Northern Ireland firms on opportunities within Big Data – the global market for which is [...]
Local entrepreneurs could win up to €280,000 through InterTradeIreland’s Seedcorn Investor Readiness Competition 2015. The competition is now in its 13th year and is looking for young companies from all business sectors to apply. The Seedcorn competition mirrors the real life investment process and is aimed at early and new start [...]
The Northern Ireland Science Park has just launched a new programme designed to encourage budding entrepreneurs with a paid internship and the opportunity to win £10,000. Generation Innovation is a network for Northern Ireland’s most ambitious, innovative, creative and entrepreneurial teens. It's aimed at budding entrepreneurs, gamers, App developers, programmers, engineers, [...]