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What is your hometown known for? Interactive map reveals the unexpected UK towns and villages where world-famous gadgets were invented - from the TV to the toothbrush

Daily Mail - Science & tech

There's no doubt Great Britain lays claim to some of the greatest scientific discoveries and inventions that have changed the face of modern society. Now, MailOnline's interactive map reveals the birthplace of 30 of these famous British marvels, from stainless steel to the jet engine and the electric motor. Who can forget Alan Turing's Bombe machine, used to break Enigma-enciphered messages about enemy military operations during WWII? Turing developed the Bombe in 1939 at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire and hundreds were built, marking a crucial contribution to the war effort. Also on the map is the hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell in 1955 and first launched four years later on the the Isle of Wight.


Admin & Data Analyst at Catch22 - Southampton, United Kingdom

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At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career. In Social Justice, we work with young people and adults in custody and in the community, providing a range of services, including offender management and resettlement, mentoring, veterans in custody, victim services, gangs work, and youth justice. We believe that with effective support mechanisms, and the correct interventions, we can change the ideology of service users, helping them to desist from crime, and reach their true potential. This post presents an exciting opportunity to become an Admin & Data Analyst within our Personal Wellbeing services, in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight region.


Boots delivers prescription medicines by drone to the Isle of Wight

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UK pharmacy Boots has completed a test flight from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight which involved prescription-only medicines being delivered by drone. The flight departed from the British Army's Baker Barracks on Thorney Island near Portsmouth and arrived at St. Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight. Boots collected the medicines and transported them to its pharmacies across the island, where they will be distributed to patients with prescriptions for them. Rich Corbridge, chief information officer at Boots, said: "Drones have huge potential in the delivery of medicines, and it is incredibly exciting to be the first community pharmacy in the UK to transport them in this way. "An island location like the Isle of Wight seemed like a sensible place to start a trial of drones and their value to the delivery of medicines to more remote locations is very clear.


England's health service will use drones to deliver vital chemotherapy drugs

Engadget

The UK's National Health Service has announced that it will test delivering vital chemotherapy drugs via drone to the Isle of Wight. The body has partnered with Apian, a drone technology startup founded by former NHS doctors and former Google employees. Test flights are due to begin shortly, and it's hoped that the system will reduce journey times for the drugs, cut costs and enable cancer patients to receive treatment far more locally. The Isle of Wight is an island two miles off the south coast of England with a population just under 150,000. Due to the short shelf-life of most chemotherapy drugs, medicines are either rushed onto the island or patients take the ferry to the mainland.


NHS trials using drones to deliver chemotherapy drugs

BBC News

He added that it was hoped the new delivery method, which has been created in partnership with tech company Apian, would offer a better option for cancer patients living on the Isle of Wight, many of whom currently have to travel to the mainland for treatment.


NHS to test using drones to fly chemotherapy drugs to Isle of Wight

The Guardian

The NHS plans to use drones to fly chemotherapy drugs to cancer patients in England to avoid the need for long journeys to collect them. The devices will transport doses from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight in a trial that, if successful, will lead to drones being used for similar drops elsewhere. They will take 30 minutes to travel across the Solent, which will save patients on the island a three to four-hour round trip by ferry or hovercraft. On Tuesday, Amanda Pritchard, NHS England's chief executive, unveiled the move to help mark the 74th anniversary of the health service's creation by the postwar Labour government. "Delivering chemo by drone is another extraordinary development for cancer patients and shows how the NHS will stop at nothing to ensure people get the treatment they need as promptly as possible, while also cutting costs and carbon emissions," she said.


Is Artificial Intelligence the Biggest Threat to Humanity? -- Sentient Machines

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The creators of these films imagine a world where humans have lost control of the technology they developed and must fight for survival of the human species. It could also be suggested the writers and directors of these films are predicting a world where these things happen. After all, many notable figures in the world of tech such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and even Stephen Hawking have all made warnings against the potential consequences of AI. But how accurate is the silver screen's depiction and are the fears of my friend based off of these films warranted? Is AI going rogue, building a robot army and attempting to eradicate humans as likely as finding a dead body on top of a lift or being attacked by a giant shark off the Isle of Wight?


Pilotless planes will take off 'within a decade' as British companies team up to create new AI

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Two British companies are teaming up to create cutting-edge artificial intelligence that will allow aeroplanes to be flown without a human pilot by 2030. Isle of Wight-based Britten-Norman has announced it intends to have just one pilot in its planes by 2025, and no pilots at all by 2030. To achieve these lofty heights as the first pilotless commercial aircraft, it has teamed up with Blue Bear, a British autonomous flight specialist. Britten-Norman's Islander plane will be the focal point of the project and specialises in short-haul flights, currently operating between Scottish islands Isle of Wight-based Britten-Norman has announced it intends to have just one pilot in its planes by 2025, and no pilots at all by 2030. Britten-Norman's Islander plane will be the focal point of the project and specialises in short-haul flights, currently operating between Scottish islands.


Pilotless planes to fly passengers by 2030 as AI breakthrough announced

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Pilotless passenger planes are planned to fly by 2030, a company has sensationally promised. Manufacturer Britten-Norman is to roll out single-piloted aircraft in five years and hopes to go fully pilot-free within a decade. The Isle of Wight-based company said it will allow operators to offer "uncrewed and piloted" flights. Britain's only independent commercial aircraft manufacturer said its ultimate goal of optional full automation "should be realised within this decade". But pilotless planes will need regulator approval and will likely scare off passengers, the British Airline Pilots' Association said.


UK tests drone to deliver medical supplies to remote areas

Al Jazeera

A drone has begun delivering urgent medical supplies to a hospital on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England. The trial is part of a government project to develop a transport system that allows manned and unmanned aircraft to operate safely in the same airspace. And it could have significant implications for the delivery of humanitarian aid to isolated areas.