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Staff say the ageing beige tower remains "central to Industry 4.0" because nobody understands what will happen if it dies.
Sellafield’s Game Changers programme marks ten years of nuclear clean up innovation while a wall climbing robot seeks cake and recognition.
The Smart Data Challenge Prize report gathers finalist claims while warning readers that its figures are not independently validated.
The government’s Advanced Connectivity Technologies collection gives one busy policy cupboard responsibility for almost everything.
Havant Thicket reservoir is presented as part of England’s water resilience plans while drought restrictions affect millions.
Advanced AI successfully identifies the correct suspect before staff confidently remove somebody else.
An official octopus bloom reporting page meets a fictional empty jar seeking monitoring authority.
The UK Space Agency is backing 16 satellite communications projects with £13 million, promising better train WiFi, smarter farming and plenty of orbital optimism.
UKAEA has spun out an engineering AI company, giving Britain a machine that can remember who broke the spreadsheet and attended none of the meetings.
Human tissue models gain government backing, while one fictional glass dish requests annual leave.
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