Innovation

  • Ukraine cements air power initiative

    In Ukraine, unmanned aerial craft are becoming more and more important. They’re used to strike targets but also to take surveillance footage and harass soldiers on the enemy frontlines.

    This technology is supremely hi-tech in its capability, but also require advanced functions to work in the first place. Ukrainian technicians have put a lot of time and effort into developing a form suitable to their unique situation.

  • Is Crypto a non-starter?

    The rise of Bitcoin (BTC) is just one piece of technology getting there into the mainstream.

    It doesn’t mean everybody’s changing their money to fit the new way.

    The financial system isn’t changing to blockchain.

    There isn’t a new form or format for everyone anytime soon. This is fallacious thinking.

    The inventors of alternative technology want their aims to be achieved. It’s a vision for the future they can control with their own hands.

    It’s a system that works for their own values – however niche a collective it may be.

  • Business Leader: ARM

    Origins

    ARM started as a new company by Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI Technology. It aimed to design chip parts to power the next technological revolution.

    ARM logo & cofounders.

    Present Day

    It now competes with the likes of Nvidia in an increasingly saturated market. It’s maintained dominance in mobile markets and increased in AI technology.

    Distinctives

    ARM makes designs that underlie core architecture in complex computing systems. It’s involved in cloud computing, data centres, and advanced AI.

    It publicly trades as ARM (NASDAQ).

  • Threads close to X in activity

    The new Meta-backed app Threads now competes with X for daily users, says TechCrunch.

    Its clean, text-based look allows existing Instagram users another outlet for their posts.

    The growth of social media has ignited a fierce war for the top spot in download charts.

  • X links up to Polymarket

    As social media eats up our likes and reactions, it’s set to shake up our view of the future. X says it will partner with Polymarket, a market prediction brokerage firm, to offer new features for its users.

    Its notice has little detail. It increases a potential for more accurate forecasts in this niche.

    In recent years use of betting news in analysis in the UK, in particular during elections, has increased.