About this episode

This episode introduces a new weekly news segment covering various technology and business updates from Cambridge and beyond.

Welcome to our new weekly news segment available on both our audio feed and a video version on our YouTube channel. Regular updates included Tech.uk and Cambridge Wireless, David Roach at Allia, the Internet Watch Foundation, and Unit M, Innovate Cambridge and podcast friend, Simon Thorpe. Headlines from this week’s news include: Erin Meryl McGurk and co-founder David Khachaturov, two founders from the University of Cambridge who are being backed by Y Combinator in Silicon Valley to build Egoist Machines. Cambridge video games company Infinity Fiction are raising cash and broadening their UK team from a local base under the guidance of a brother-founder team of Alex and Alastair Chamorro. Companies with locations in Cambridge, Milton Keynes and Stevenage are among the beneficiaries of the UK's escalating defence programme, backed by European allies. Cambridge Aerospace, Frankenburg Technologies and Greenjets have been awarded £3 million by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to develop low‑cost interceptors designed to shoot down drones. ZeroAvia, a transatlantic leader in hydrogen-electric aviation, and Cambridge-based engineering company Marshall Aerospace are collaborating to…

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