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(Partnership Announcement) UKBT Institute x Black in Academia
Exploring the knowledge, discoveries and technologies shaping what comes next. London, UK — September 2026 — Black in Academia and the UKBT Institute are…
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Opportunity: Take your tech expertise into the boardroom
Digital Trustees and UKBT Institute are partnering to develop a new programme for professionals working across business, digital, data, design, AI and technology. The…
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Tech Speeds Up Cure for Sickle Cell Disease as London Leads Global Trials
For decades, sickle cell disease has been treated largely as a lifelong condition to be managed. A donor stem-cell transplant can offer a cure,…
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Deep Dive: AI Learned From What We Created. Is It Now Learning From What We Do?
Something strange is happening in the AI mosh pit, for most of the generative AI era, the competition has appeared to revolve around intelligence.…
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What “vibe coding” actually is
Vibe coding is the practice of generating large amounts of code by prompting AI tools and accepting the output with minimal reading, design, or…
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Developers confront an identity crisis as AI takes over the craft of coding
Software engineers who once defined themselves by their ability to write elegant code are being forced to ask a more fundamental question. If anyone…
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Could the Tech Jobs Slowdown Help Solve England’s Computing Teacher Shortage?
For more than a decade, England has struggled to recruit enough computing teachers. The problem has always contained an awkward labour-market tension: schools need…
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England Is Running Out of Water. Could This Be the Next Big Technology Opportunity?
Turn on a tap in England and water appears almost instantly. That reliability makes it remarkably easy to assume that water is abundant, It…
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Running A Tech Start-Up
Your Great Idea Is Not Evidence That Anyone Wants It Every founder has a story. They experienced a frustrating problem, saw an opportunity that…
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Professor Jason Arday and the anatomy of a digital pile-on
There is an old saying, often attributed to Mark Twain, that history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. When it comes to the…
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The Rhythm of the Market: Does Grime Follow the Bitcoin Cycle?
On a rainy Tuesday in east London, a local data scientist tracks a digital line that looks exactly like a cryptocurrency chart. It is…
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What Powers AI?
🚨 AI may live in the cloud. But its foundations are buried in the ground. We talk about artificial intelligence as algorithms, compute and…