Cambridge Today Blog
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Searching for survivors in the realm of the robots
I recall a cartoon by Birkett which showed Daleks standing at the foot of a very steep flight of stairs and the leader pronouncing: “Well, this... Read More
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The 4Rs: Reading, Riting, Rithmetic – and Rifle Shooting!
Languages tutor Annie Oakley appeared even more curvaceous than normal as she dragged herself wearily into class. Uttering a few expletives in... Read More
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Cambridge loses two great minds but inherits rich legacy
Cambridge has lost two great minds in a matter of days with the deaths of Nobel Prizewinner and genomics doyen Sir John Sulston and celebrated... Read More
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Any Broadcom-Qualcomm deal could rouse Arm’s arch rival Intel
Experienced technology observers in Cambridge believe that if Broadcom succeeds in its £139 billion bid for Qualcomm a third company in the UK... Read More
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Cambridge’s billion dollar babies
The hot money is on cyber security business Darktrace becoming Cambridge’s 16th company to attain a billion dollar valuation. It is within striking... Read More
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Cambridge role in new Apple Siri speaker?
We may find out next week exactly why Apple was minded to pay up to $100 million for Cambridge speech recognition technology startup VocalIQ in... Read More
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$32bn Japanese takeover of ARM good: £74m Chinese acquisition of Sepura bad?
The UK government has refused to disclose why it is probing the proposed £74 million acquisition of Sepura by the Hytera Corporation of China, other... Read More
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Payback time through people power
The US was an ultra-protectionist economy under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama so don’t let what you read in self-serving UK media try to persuade you... Read More
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Cambridge tech train becomes Orient express
Slowly but surely the orientation of the Cambridge science & technology cluster has – well – shifted towards the Orient. Whereas the US once... Read More
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Brexit carnage should be Buchan obvious by now
Eerie how often the past informs the future. Author John Buchan – alarmed at the growing nationalistic movement in Germany eight years before World... Read More
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
That’s what Rex Harrison intoned as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. Life would appear to be imitating art as eyebrows of both genders are raised... Read More
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Cambridge’s AI cluster could help boost UK economy by $814bn in under 20 years
It should come as no surprise to students of game-changing innovation that Cambridge in the UK is often ahead of the curve in blazing a trail ... Read More
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ARM-Intel alliance turns secret silo into open hothouse
Former ARM CEO Warren East – now busily re-engineering UK industrial giant Rolls-Royce – was always realistic about the Cambridge technology company’... Read More
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Massive upsurge in overseas entrepreneurs in UK
One of the nastiest elements of the EU Referendum was the overt and insidious racism it stirred in many Brexit supporters in the homes and on the... Read More
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How many jewels left to sell from Cambridge’s crown?
The impending sale of ARM to SoftBank takes the most dazzling jewel in Cambridge’s technology crown into overseas ownership. It has been quite a... Read More
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
The argument goes that Britain needs a more US-style funding model and to start hurling bigger amounts of money at startups much earlier in their... Read More
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From enlightenment back to the dark ages
It’s early 2017 and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump are deciding how to spend their first summit meeting – playing snap... Read More
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Time for ‘Sure of Shoreditch’ not ‘Vague on The Hague’
It was former US businessman Bert Lance, a member of the Jimmy Carter administration, who is credited with coining the anti-activists’ mantra: ‘If it... Read More
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Cambridge: A ‘city state’ or a city in a state?
I remember Business Weekly newspaper getting a call from a Tony Blair accolyte in the early ’90s flagging up how the power base in East Anglia was... Read More
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Smart infrastructure: a Tale of Three Cities
This won’t take long. In terms of infrastructure and transport strategy, which of these cities is the odd one out: Cambridge UK; Boston US;... Read More