Weekly News Roundup: August 18th 2017

Chloe Henderson

18 August 2017, 03.59pm

Friday is here and you can all breathe a sigh of relief. DIGIT’s weekly news roundup is back to bring you all the tech news worth knowing from Scotland and beyond. From cattle health tech to rats chewing through internet cables, we’ve got it all covered…

Scottish Tech Weekly News Roundup

Clyde Space ‘reaches for the stars,’ with their new contract for Audacy
Always look on the bright side of life! Scottish CEOs see tech disruption as a benefit rather than a threat
From London to Edinburgh in four hours – Virgin Azuma crosses the border for the first time in a test run
Edinburgh-based Well Cow trials their cattle healthcare tech
Talk about combining the old with the new! Historic Wick harbour buildings are set to become a wind farm hub

Global Tech Weekly News Roundup

Supercomputers… in Space! SpaceX will deliver the first supercomputer to the ISS
Oh rats! A plague of rodents takes down South London internet
Armed Met Police officers are to be issued with head-mounted cameras
See how your country matches up with Ookla’s new monthly internet speed ranks
Australia cracks down on Bitcoin under new counter terrorism reforms
A worrying statistic reveals that very few girls took computing at A Levels in 2016