£800m tech agency championed by Dominic Cummings that aims to help UK inventors launches today

£800m tech agency that was championed by Dominic Cummings and aims to help UK inventors take on the world will be launched today  The Advanced Research & Invention Agency will fund ‘blue sky projects’ It will also give inventors the ‘freedom to fail’ by exempting them from standard rules for taxpayer-funded work  This has raised … Read more

£800m tech agency championed by Dominic Cummings that aims to help UK inventors launches today

£800m tech agency that was championed by Dominic Cummings and aims to help UK inventors take on the world will be launched today  The Advanced Research & Invention Agency will fund ‘blue sky projects’ It will also give inventors the ‘freedom to fail’ by exempting them from standard rules for taxpayer-funded work  This has raised … Read more

The jet engine inventor’s idea to help the RAF was ignored by minsters

A proposal by the future inventor of the jet engine for an interceptor fighter plane was ignored by the British government two years before the Blitz, a newly discovered memo has revealed. Sir Frank Whittle described how his design for powering aircraft would allow the RAF to combat Luftwaffe bombers if they attempted to take … Read more

Inventors of new app claim it can translate what your CAT is saying when it purrs 

Hear miaowt! Inventors of new app claim it can translate what your CAT is saying when it purrs A new app claims to be able to translate a cat’s miaows and purrs into English Creators of app MeowTalk said it can identify 13 meanings from the creatures The new app is already available on Google … Read more

Canadian inventor’s lock aims to beat doorstep parcel thieves

Is this the end of ‘porch pirates’? Tiny lock uses aircraft-grade steel cable to stop packages from being stolen One in five Americans are thought to have fallen victim to ‘porch pirates’, with $25million worth of parcels going missing every day  After falling victim, Canadian entrepreneur Dennis Evans invented a solution  Parcels are locked inside … Read more