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The BBC has scrapped the Digital Media Initiative, which  has cost £98.4m since it started in 2008

BBC scraps £98.4m Digital Media Initiative

The BBC has scrapped its digital production system and archive plans after admitting wasting almost £100m on it.

Vodafone UK chief executive Guy Laurence has announced the mobile phone giant plans to hire 400 graduates over the next five years

Vodafone hailed for pledge to recruit 400 graduates

The Business Secretary has hailed Vodafone’s plans to hire 400 graduates over five years as a blueprint for British businesses.

A map showing the proposed location of the 504MW Galloper Wind Farm (CREDIT: RWE)

Offshore wind farm project given go-ahead

An offshore wind farm in East Anglia that will power as many as half a million homes has been given the go-ahead.

Features
Africa from space

Taming the desert: energy out of Africa

Harvesting the vast energy potential from Africa's deserts could provide a much needed boost to Europe's energy supply.

A demonstration of the drone's features

Drone Rangers  ET arr

With the worldwide trade in illegal ivory booming, many species are closer than ever to extinction. Can drones help authorities take on the fight against poachers?

An African farmer with a new strain of rice

Scientists to help African farmers  ET arr

Around half of all crops fail in Africa. In response, laboratories across the world are applying advanced scientific methods to provide a viable way of making cereal crops more robust.

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Close-up detail of the 3D printed dress modelled recently by Dita Von Teese in New York

Close-up detail of the 3D printed dress modelled recently by Dita Von Teese in New York

An architect's impression of possible high-rise eco-city dwellings for China

An architect's impression of possible high-rise eco-city dwellings for China

A prime mover in the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, demonstrating in London recently

A prime mover in the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, demonstrating in London recently

Artist Agne Kisonaite collected 5,000 lipsticks to make this sculpture, protesting against the waste of the non-recycled tubes

Artist Agne Kisonaite collected 5,000 lipsticks to make this sculpture, protesting against the waste of the non-recycled tubes

A mini version of Berlin's Brandenburg Airport, built from 100,000 Lego bricks by Legoland Discovery Centre Berlin

A mini version of Berlin's Brandenburg Airport, built from 100,000 Lego bricks by Legoland Discovery Centre Berlin

Electricians check an electricity pylon situated amid farmland in Chuzhou, China 

Electricians check an electricity pylon situated amid farmland in Chuzhou, China 

Dutch nursery worker Thijs Glas checks hydrangea buds, sprayed with water to freeze them and thus protect them from night frosts

Dutch nursery worker Thijs Glas checks hydrangea buds, sprayed with water to freeze them and protect them from night frosts

Architecture company Because We Can designed this

Architecture company Because We Can designed this "feline transport system" for its office cat to help keep it safe

The Pancake-omatic makes pancakes from eggs laid just minutes before. It took four design engineers more than 200 hours to construct

The Pancake-omatic makes pancakes from eggs laid just minutes before. It took four design engineers more than 200 hours to construct

Anouk Wipprecht's Pseudomorph dress, with a neckpiece filled with 550ml of ink that decorates the dress when released

Anouk Wipprecht's Pseudomorph dress, with a neckpiece filled with 550ml of ink that decorates the dress when released

Deep Space Industries has announced a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft, utilising low-cost cubesat components, that will be launched into the solar system to hunt for resources to accelerate space development

Deep Space Industries has announced a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft, utilising low-cost cubesat components, that will be launched into the solar system to hunt for resources to accelerate space development

The Hub01 modular and mobile student housing prototype, developed for KatHO Catholic University in Belgium  

The Hub01 modular and mobile student housing prototype, developed for KatHO Catholic University in Belgium  

Blogs

Wolfson bets on Samsung and new Chinese players

24 May 2013

Wolfson Microtechnology, the audio chip maker, is not a household name, but its technology is in some of the best-selling smartphones - including the smartphone of the moment, the Samsung Galaxy S4.

Africa special

22 May 2013

As leaders meet this week in Addis Ababa to celebrate fifty years of the African Union, a special issue of E&T looks at the opportunities and obstacles there for engineering and technology.

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Debate

Debate: Formula 1

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The relentless push for innovation in Formula 1 has a positive effect on the technology

Professor of business strategy and director of research

Profile: Dr Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins is professor of business strategy and director of research at Cranfield School of Management. His forthcoming paper on technology in Formula 1 ‘Innovate or imitate: The role of collective beliefs in competences in competing firms’ with be published in Long Range Planning.

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The relentless push for innovation in Formula 1 has a negative effect on the technology

Marie Curie research fellow

Profile: Dr Paolo Aversa

Paolo Aversa is Marie Curie research fellow at the Faculty of Management at the Cass Business School, City University London. His current project, related to Formula 1, was awarded with the Marie Curie Fellowship PEOPLE-FP7-IEF. He teaches advanced strategy analysis for the MSc in management.

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