Research and Development (R&D) stories - Page 3
Manchester AI incubator selects first startup cohort
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Manchester's Turing Innovation Catalyst has picked seven early-stage AI startups for its first TIC Startup Lab incubator cohort.
NeuBird AI names Venkat Ramakrishnan president & COO
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NeuBird AI appoints Venkat Ramakrishnan president and COO to scale its agentic AI SRE platform and expand global commercial operations.
WARE UK adopts Easy WMS to scale Knowsley facility
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WARE UK adopts Mecalux Easy WMS at its new Knowsley hub to boost stock visibility, speed dispatch and support northern England growth.
Smartphone app claims to deliver full eye prescriptions
Sat, 31st Jan 2026
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A Copenhagen startup says its Argus software can generate full eye prescriptions from a single smartphone photo in under a minute.
UK firms urged to co-create with China, not just export
Fri, 30th Jan 2026
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manufacturing
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UK firms told to embed in China as co-creators, not just exporters, with visa-free travel urged to unlock high-tech industrial ties.
Snap launches Specs unit to drive smart glasses push
Fri, 30th Jan 2026
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wearables
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digital entertainment
Snap forms Specs unit to spearhead next-gen smart glasses, promising AI-driven, low-friction eyewear that blends digital and real worlds.
KnowBe4 marks AIDA decade & names AI innovation VP
Fri, 30th Jan 2026
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saas
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digital transformation
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KnowBe4 marks a decade of its AIDA security AI, now running seven agents for 70,000 clients, and appoints Harlan Parrott VP of AI Innovation.
OVHcloud, OpenNebula launch certified sovereign EU cloud
Thu, 29th Jan 2026
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virtualisation
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private cloud
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hybrid cloud
OVHcloud partners with OpenNebula to launch certified sovereign cloud instances across EU data centres under the IPCEI-CIS framework.
Crompton crowned world's top ceiling fan maker by 2024
Thu, 29th Jan 2026
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smart home
Crompton named world's top ceiling fan brand for 2024 by Euromonitor, selling over two crore units a year and one fan every two seconds.
Gartner outlines four tactics behind efficient growth
Thu, 29th Jan 2026
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supply chain
Gartner identifies four finance tactics it says helped 105 US-listed firms beat peers with a 51% total shareholder return premium.
SYOS invited to design NYX drones for Apache fleet
Wed, 28th Jan 2026
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supply chain
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uav
SYOS wins UK defence invite to design NYX drones to fly alongside Apache helicopters, boosting its British-New Zealand aerospace profile.
Nike probes suspected cyberattack & huge data leak
Wed, 28th Jan 2026
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data protection
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ransomware
Nike is probing a suspected cyberattack after a hacker group claimed to leak 1.4TB of internal data, raising supply chain security fears.
Komodor bolsters leadership for AI driven SRE growth
Sat, 24th Jan 2026
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Komodor hires a new CFO and elevates its people chief to steer global expansion of its AI-driven site reliability engineering platform.
NMITE & British Army launch autonomous robotics MEng
Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
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NMITE and the British Army have unveiled a three-year autonomous robotics MEng, blending drone technology with hands-on defence-linked projects.
Spanish Point expands UK footprint with Microsoft AI role
Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
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physical security
Spanish Point expands UK presence after 31% revenue growth and wins rare role delivering Microsoft's 20-day AI Transformation Programmeme.
e& enterprise, Emergence AI in MENAT agentic AI deal
Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
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hybrid cloud
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e& enterprise and Emergence AI team up to roll out autonomous agentic AI for regulated organisations across MENAT and Türkiye.
Qubitra plots quantum push for finance & marketplace
Wed, 21st Jan 2026
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digital transformation
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fintech
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hpc
Qubitra, backed by SC Ventures and Fujitsu, maps out quantum apps and a marketplace to push finance use cases into production by 2026.
AI speeds UK fusion tokamak design by 100,000 times
Wed, 14th Jan 2026
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digital twins
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AI tools from digiLab and UKAEA speed UK spherical tokamak simulations by 100,000 times, shrinking fusion design cycles from months to hours.
ADLINK gains IEC 62443-4-1 nod for secure edge R&D
Wed, 14th Jan 2026
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ADLINK secures IEC 62443-4-1 certification, formalising a secure-by-design R&D framework for its industrial edge and OT computing products.
Teradata scales enterprise AI deployments across sectors
Wed, 14th Jan 2026
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manufacturing
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surveillance
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hybrid cloud
Teradata claims over 150 large-scale AI deployments in 2025 as enterprises shift from pilots to governed, production-grade roll-outs.