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WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP: June 30th 2017
Tempus, as the romans said, fugit. Time flies. Can it really be a week since our last weekly news round up? We’re afraid so.
A week which saw a dastardly cyber attack on the foundations of British democracy, with the House of Parliament losing e-mail access, only to be followed by another ransomware attack (it wasn’t ransomware) in which #Petya (it was #NotPetya) spread like a particularly nasty wildfire.
Admist all of the hurly and the burly, we’d be surprised if you managed to find all of the latest and most fascinating weekly tech news. Never fear, DIGIT is here to help…
This week we have A.I. writing motivational posters, building a #NotMac for $70, exploring a neolithic Orkney tomb with the Glasgow School of Art, surge pricing your lunch, lasers and the U.S.A inventing the sausage roll.
You don’t have to thank us, this is our job.
Enjoy.
Scottish Tech Weekly News Roundup
- Happy birthday ATM. Another Scottish invention which changed the world
- Fife Laser Technology firm Power Photonic raises £750,000 from Clydesdale Bank
- Edinburgh fantasy sports company Premier Punt awarded remote casino licence
- SpaceTech company Spire launched an additional eight micro satellites for tracking shipping and weather
- Brightsolid saves Aberdeen £250,000 with move to 1.2 PetaBytes of flash storage
- Explore a neolithic Orkney tomb with an astonishing new app from GSA’s School of SimVis
World Tech News Roundup
- Motivational posters designed by an A.I. are creepier than you’d probably expect
- …or when you use an A.I. to write proverbs it’s just wrong!
- It’s not just the UK, Australia is now urging the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence group to weaken crypto
- Get used to premium price lunch-time crisps. UK supermarkets are set to trial Uber-style ‘surge’ pricing
- Good week for Elon Musk: two successful rocket landings AND his first tunnel opens (connecting Space X to it’s parking lot)Â next week
- Brace yourself for SEO: THE MOVIE (#1 on Google, could be the most successful SEO of its time)
- Helicopters with FREAKIN’ LASERS! are now a thing
- Love your Mac? Refuse to have ANYTHING to do with the new ‘no ports’ models? Build your own ‘Hackintosh’, which outperforms the real $1300 MacBook Pro, for only $70.
- America invents the ‘puff dog’, Britain helpfully points out it’s a sausage roll. War ensues.
