E+T Magazine

🚨 NEW ISSUE ALERT 🚨 It's all about the Olympics with lots of features looking at what technology, along with the athletes, will be playing a part in these Games. There is also digital currency, tech to clean up our waterways, what industry wants from No.10 ... and much more! Read your digital copy on our website: https://lnkd.in/e3XceHf6

🤑 Central banks around the world are working on digitising cash. Will it pay off? https://lnkd.in/eRKTh2mT

Our July/August issue, which is hot off the press, is chock full of interesting news, features, opinions, analysis, interviews... While the Olympics is an obvious theme, we cover a variety of other topics including this opinion piece by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)'s public affairs manager Tim Allison on how engineers and technologists must innovate and transform to face the challenges ahead. https://lnkd.in/eTSg9afm

👂New E+T podcast available 👂 This month on our E+T Off The Page podcast we chat EVs and whether the electrification of the world's car fleet is just an electric dream. We were joined by the excellent Claire Miller who had LOTS to say on the subject. Very topical and well worth a listen. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eckB2cJA Or here: https://lnkd.in/ebhXx-vm

Watch our latest E+T Deconstructed: Paris Olympic Games 2024 The costs of putting on a modern Olympics has spiralled out of control. Paris is using clever engineering and technology to put on a spectacle that is both safe and environmentally responsible. Let the Games begin! Full video here: https://lnkd.in/d3mtdz4s #parisolympics #olympicgames #paris2024 #parisolympicgames

The Labour Party entered office on Friday after winning the general election in a long-expected landslide. Leader Keir Starmer swiftly appointed his cabinet and held their first meeting over the weekend. But who are the key appointments for the engineering and technology sectors, and how will they tackle the broad array of challenges currently facing the UK? https://lnkd.in/edcKsFu3

With Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party having won the 2024 UK general election in a landslide victory, all eyes will now turn to its manifesto pledges. In this article we highlight some of the pledges within its manifesto and the industry's reaction to them, including: 🤝 Ed Almond, chief executive of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET): " Congratulations to all of our newly elected and returning MPs. This is a chance for the new administration to work with experts and provide strong leadership to address some of the key challenges and seize the huge opportunities that the UK will face over the course of the next parliament. In particular, the opportunities around decarbonising to reach net-zero and ensuring a competitive and resilient innovation sector through an industrial strategy backed by a secure skills pipeline." 🔋 Matthew Lumsden, CEO of Connected Energy: “Second life EV batteries – repurposed into battery energy storage – should form a key part of this plan as they reduce our reliance on critical mineral imports while also creating the stability needed for an increasingly renewable electricity grid.” 💪 Joe Marshall, chief executive of the The National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB): “We hope the new Government starts as it means to go on. We need strong and decisive action if we are to be a true competitor in the global research and development market, as well as developing the workforce skills needed for future success.” 🌱 Hilary Leevers, chief executive of EngineeringUK: “As the new government has rightly recognised, we need to nurture a greater pool of talent in engineering and technology including more apprenticeship opportunities for young people, to meet current demand and to help our economy to thrive and to achieve our net zero goal.” https://lnkd.in/e5iXdUbk

Dan Beers, senior vice president of global data centre operations at Ardent Data Centers   – a global developer of data centre environments for high performance computing and part of the Northern Data Group – addresses why in our AI world businesses should choose to access external computing power via the cloud rather than invest in on-site infrastructure. https://lnkd.in/ev64TgM8 #AIcloudcomputing #cloud #generativeAI

🙋♀️ Hands up who still has a floppy disk lurking in a bottom of a drawer. 💾 Incredible to think that this mainstay of PC software almost three decades ago could only accommodate 1.44MB of data. ☁ While it has been overtaken by other forms of storage media including CDs, DVDs, USBs and the cloud, floppy disks continued to be used in Japan. 💿 The Japanese government has for many years required residents to use floppy disks or CD-ROMs to submit more than 1,900 official documents to the government. 🙅♂️ Two years ago it declared “a war on floppy disks” and their use has finally been eliminated. https://lnkd.in/eVKDJeF9 #floppydisk #computerstorage #PCstorage #cloud #oldtech

With just days to go until the general election, what do the main three political parties offer the electorate in terms of engineering and technology? Here are a few snippets: 🚂 While the Conservatives pledge that its Northern Powerhouse Rail plan will bring more frequent trains, more capacity and faster journeys, Labour is committed to the creation of Great British Railways and the Lib Dems plan to create a new Railway Agency to reform the sector while “holding train companies to account”. 🔥 The Conservatives will continue to support the fossil fuel sector and new gas power plants will be built to maintain the UK’s “safe and reliable” energy sources. In contrast, Labour said it would not issue new licences for oil and gas exploration as it would “accelerate the worsening climate crisis”. The Lib Dems will scrap subsidies for fossil fuels and will invest heavily in renewable power. 🚗 The Conservatives will spend £4.5bn on secure strategic manufacturing sectors including automotive, aerospace, life sciences and clean energy. Labour will invest £1.5bn to build a series of new gigafactories for the automotive sector, as well as £2.5bn to help shore up the UK’s flagging steel industry. The Lib Dem manifesto aims for at least 3% of GDP to be invested in R&D by 2030, rising to 3.5% by 2034. #generalelections2024 #generalelections #elections https://lnkd.in/eWa2tN95