Speechmatics,a UK leader in any-context speech recognition technology,today launches the first Global Spanish language pack on the market that supports all major Spanish accents.Global Spanish(GS)is asingle Spanish language pack trained on data drawn across awide range of diverse sources–specifically those from Latin America–making it the most accurate and comprehensive accent-independent Spanish language pack for speech-to-text.Testing found that for all variations of Spanish,Speechmatics’GS language pack was the best option in every instance.Compared directly,GS was between 3%and 20%more accurate than all Google’s Beta accent-specific language packs and between 4%and 13%more accurate than Microsoft’s Video Indexer accent-specific language packs.*Speechmatics utilized the latest advancements in machine learning and applied proprietary language training techniques to create the GS language pack.With Speechmatics’GS model,businesses using speech recognition for Spanish voice data won’t have to jump between multiple language packs to optimize the accuracy of their transcriptions,reducing costs and streamlining operations.The Speechmatics approach delivers asimpler user experience with no additional software or complex processes needed.Following the success of its Global English language pack,Global Spanish is fast,accurate,reliable and more flexible,convenient and inclusive. 查看详细>>

Royal Society of Chemistry are excited to announce apartnership with social media platform TikTok,to become the first learned society in the world to join its#LearnOnTikTok programme.The initiative,which launched this summer,brings educators,experts,real-world skills creators and non-profits together to build an ecosystem of educational content.Our membership stretches across the world,representing chemists at every stage of their career,so we join the platform with the aim of reaching afresh audience,to inspire curious minds and encourage young people to consider acareer in the chemical sciences.From explaining common mysteries around the home to showing how you can do fun experiments with everyday goods–and exploring the legacy of Black chemists who helped improve the world as part of Black History Month–the channel will offer arange of routes to engage enquiring minds in chemistry. 查看详细>>

Cambridge Consultants,part of Capgemini,have announced astratospheric breakthrough,revealing its role in avisionary program to realize the dream of superfast 5G for everyone and everything across the globe.Working in collaboration with Stratospheric Platforms Limited(SPL),Cambridge Consultants’remarkable technical achievement is awireless antenna unlike anything seen before,delivering affordable connectivity from afleet of zero emissions aircraft,airborne at an altitude of 20,000 meters for more than aweek.Operating at afraction of the cost of building and maintaining terrestrial infrastructure,and with minimal environmental impact due to its zero-emission hydrogen power system,such afleet could rewrite the economics of mobile broadband.With the proof of concept now complete,the ultimate antenna is set to be powerful,huge,and yet lightweight.At three meters square and weighing just 120kg,it will take flight to become what’s expected to be the world’s largest commercial airborne communications antenna. 查看详细>>

AVEVA,have announced the winners of its 2020 AVEVA Design Academic Competition.The competition series is part of AVEVA’s continued investment in creating better opportunities for those entering the industry.It was open to chemical engineering students in EMEA and North America keen to challenge themselves using AVEVA Process Simulation software.AVEVA’s competition series is designed to offer chemical engineering students aunique opportunity to develop their process simulation skills.Students were judged on anumber of criteria including the quality,completeness and correctness of their final report,as well as their process engineering and simulation work.Students were asked to convert their projects to dynamic models that represented how an industrial plant reacts to changes in inputs.They were also challenged to develop and implement troubleshooting measures,possibly including anew controller design.North American winners Nicholas Haynes and Brian Leonard won with their use of fundamental chemical engineering principles to produce 99%pure Benzene,a cleaner version of the hydrocarbon used in the manufacturing of several materials and plastics.Nicholas and Brian successfully employed an optimization approach that displayed the understanding of the cost implications of the entire process while also prioritizing the purity requirements for the Benzene product.They also displayed outstanding technical writing skills that are required of graduating engineers entering the industry and furnished ahigh-quality report that would meet the standards of aprofessional engineering organization.European winner Laura Fender was recognized for her simulation requirements working in aneat and well-organized flowsheet.She experimented with the software by approaching the model writing functionality,showing deep understanding of how asimulation problem with different levels of complexity can be approached. 查看详细>>

LuxTrust users(representing over 95%of Luxembourg’s active population)will benefit from the highest possible level of e-signature security in the EU when they remotely sign documents and transactions during their day to day use of the country’s wide range of digital services.This highest-assurance level for Luxembourgers has been made possible by LuxTrust,the leading European qualified Trust Service Provider and certification authority that supports Luxembourg’s public and private sector digital services and by Cryptomathic,technology provider and pioneer in remote signature and non-repudiation.This significant step forward follows the completion of LuxTrust’s technical migration to an eIDAS-certified QSCD version of Signer,Cryptomathic’s remote qualified digital signature solution,which has enabled LuxTrust to upgrade all of its clients(citizens and businesses)to the highest eIDAS-qualified level,according to the EU regulation’s requirements. 查看详细>>

Xaar,the leading inkjet printing technology group,has today outlined anew strategy to return to sustainable long-term growth.Alongside this,Xaar has launched the ImagineX bulk printhead platform which will deliver new product capabilities and unveiled anew forward looking brand identity.Innovation and collaboration with its global partners are at the heart of the new Xaar.This,combined with afocus on sectors where Xaar bulk printhead technology has acompetitive advantage,is providing aclear product roadmap that is already winning several new accounts in existing and new markets.Xaar has invested around£70m in R&D in recent years and this has been critical to developing the ImagineX bulk platform which will drive astep change in performance enhancements including printing at resolutions up to 1440dpi and speeds of 150kHz,as well the capability to operate at temperatures over 200ºC and viscosities above 100cP.Xaar’s new printheads will also be able to handle all ink types,including aqueous,ensuring they meet the latest demands from new applications. 查看详细>>

CW(Cambridge Wireless)and Cambridgeshire&Peterborough Combined Authority(CPCA)launch anew series of events introducing 5G,Internet of Things(IoT),Artificial Intelligence(AI)and Digital Twin technologies to business leaders in the region CW(Cambridge Wireless)in partnership with Cambridgeshire&Peterborough Combined Authority(CPCA)have launched anew series of online events aimed at business leaders in the region looking to explore new technologies to accelerate growth and gain an edge for the future.“New technologies,New Opportunities”virtual webinars will welcome industry experts introducing key technologies with transformative potential–5G,Internet of Things(IoT),Artificial Intelligence(AI)and Digital Twins–allowing companies to rethink their business models around new opportunities,using the application of emerging technology as an enabler.“The global COVID-19 crisis has exposed digital connectivity as the new must-have for 21st Century business.Necessity is the mother of invention and companies are now having to work,communicate and trade in new ways,with digital know-how underpinning many of these changes.The Combined Authority is leading efforts to bounce the region beyond mere recovery and into transformation.These online events champion thought leadership in technology and knowledge-swapping within our region,helping participants explore and share advances and best practice,”said James Palmer,Mayor of Cambridgeshire&Peterborough.“Innovation is key and‘virtual networking’like this-to share knowledge,ideas,technologies and skills-supports our commitment to economic resurgence,ensuring the‘new normal’is something better than the old one,defined by fresh ideas and awill to come back stronger.”“As the facilitator for this series of events,I believe now is the time for companies across various industry sectors to consider the business possibilities arising from anumber of key emerging technologies.As always,there is both opportunity and potential threat from the disruptive nature of new technology,”said Peter Whale,Founder&CEO of Vision Formers and CW Board Member.“I believe that businesses in the region are strongly placed to be the ones who create significant new business opportunities,grasping the incredible potential,innovating,and building strong partnerships with the significant local technology cluster,where many of these new technologies are imagined,created and first brought to market.”The first event in this virtual series held on 23 July 2020 and led by Zahid Ghadialy,Senior Director,Strategic Marketing at Parallel Wireless UK&EMEA and Peter Whale,will introduce 5G technology,the next generation of wireless communications,set to provide amassive step change in the digitisation of all businesses and wider society over the next decade.All webinars in the“New technologies,New Opportunities”series are free to attend and businesses are invited to join the conversation on social media using#CWCPCA hashtag. 查看详细>>

Experienced office specialist Mantle has taken over operation of Cambridge‘s flagship deep technology collaborative workspace The Bradfield Centre on behalf of its owner Trinity College Cambridge.New operators were sought after previous incumbent,Central Working,went into administration.Mantle has extensive experience of managing flexible working spaces essential to the UK tech scene–including the CB1 Business Centre near Cambridge station,which it has run since 2013.Its portfolio of business centres also includes The Officers‘Mess at Duxford–which it restored and now operates as serviced offices and co-working spaces–and historic Thremhall Park set in 12 acres of parkland near Stansted."We are delighted to welcome The Bradfield Centre to our growing portfolio of high-quality,thriving business centres,"said Mantle CEO Guy Baker."Each of our centres has its own unique identity–so our priority will be preserving the ethos and values of The Bradfield Centre to ensure it continues to fulfil its role as avital hub for the region‘s tech community.It‘s business as usual for the members who enjoy the world-class facilities and we are keen to build on this flourishing entrepreneurial hub.”The Bradfield Centre,at the heart of the Cambridge Science Park,opened in 2017.It was part-funded by the Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy in acollaboration with Trinity College Cambridge. 查看详细>>

Breakthrough innovation specialist Cambridge Consultants today announced that it has joined the Kyōsō-no-Mori Partnership Program(“Partnership Program”),an ambitious new framework under the Kyōsō-no-Mori initiative launched on 11th April 2019 at the Central Research Laboratory by the Research&Development Group of Hitachi,Ltd.Kyōsō-no-Mori,which means co-innovation forest in Japanese,embodies Hitachi’s vision“to deliver innovations that answer society’s challenges”by accelerating innovation through open collaborative creation and realize ahuman-centric sustainable society.The project selected by Cambridge Consultants will investigate the applications and business models for applying synthetic biology to address the global challenge of plastic waste.The unprecedented spotlight on the environmental damage caused by plastics is driving businesses to consider the full lifecycle impact of products,processes and packaging.Cambridge Consultants has along-established research programme that aims both to introduce sustainable bioplastics into the product design toolkit and to harness the tools of synthetic biology to speed the decomposition of plastic waste.Hitachi too has been investigating the application of synthetic biology to tackle the issue.Under the Partnership Program,Cambridge Consultants and Hitachi will study the business case together,applying technology from both companies in an initial three-month phase. 查看详细>>