I began my journey into obtaining google reviews last week and was surprised to find that it wasn’t as straightforward as I thought it would be. I write this article to help others who wish to obtain google review data (and other data related to location).Getting Started — PermissionsEnabling and Using the Google My Business API Getting Started — Permissions Make sure you have access both to the...
Europe’s first commercial facility for psychedelic drug trials is to open in London, with the goal of making the UK a global leader in psychedelics research and innovation. The British startup Clerkenwell Health aims to begin trials in its central London facility in August, initially focusing on the use of psilocybin to help people deal with the anxiety associated with a diagnosis of terminal...
YouTube has closed down a channel used by an extremist, named “Britain’s most racist YouTuber”, for breaching its hate speech policies. James Owens, 37, used codewords and euphemisms to bypass automated monitoring on the video platform and broadcast attacks on Jewish and black people, it was reported. YouTube said it had terminated the channel used by the extremist, who operated under the...
You can turn pages of a book, and launch an explosive *Angry Bird*into the sky, by grabbing this phone at the ends and bending it. The smartphone prototype, named ReFlex and designed by academics at Queen’s University, Canada, is one of the first true implementations of a bendable screen into mobile OS design. The researchers created the phone with a 720p LG flexible OLED touch screen, Android’s...
The UK’s intelligence services have partnered with a new scheme aiming to help black women return to the tech industry after a career break. Non-profit organisation Coding Black Females – the UK’s largest network of black female software developers – has launched a new training bootcamp with spy agency GCHQ. The 30-week ‘returnship’ will be open to black women or gender minority tech workers with...
A Bristol duo who developed a high-tech wristband to help people socially distance during the pandemic have been named the South West’s Young Entrepreneurs of the Year. School friends Harry Kimberley-Bowen and Ronan Finnegan used personal savings to set up their company – known as Spacebands – from a bedroom in 2020. They have since sold 16,000 devices to more than 1,000 organisations in 30...
Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, one of the top level team that helped guide Britain through the pandemic, told the annual East Midlands Chamber dinner that science must be as accessible as possible if it is to help the public. Sir Jonathan, who was a regular figure at Downing Street press conferences during the pandemic spoke about the importance of authenticity while in the public eye at the event. He...
The city of Derby – which has a railway engineering heritage dating back to the 19th century – has been shortlisted as the potential home of home of Great British Railways (GBR). In all six places have been included on the shortlist – Birmingham, Crewe, Derby, Doncaster, Newcastle and York. They were among 42 areas which expressed an interest in becoming home of the new public body set up by the...
HBP Systems Ltd has cemented its place as one of the leading IT companies in the UK over recent years with a series of industry awards and continued financial growth. Now, after a challenging couple of years, it is backing that up with a significant investment in the team. The IT experts who have offices in both Scunthorpe and Hessle, have added 10 new members of staff in the last six months...
A £5 million funding pot has been approved to create a Low Carbon Innovation Hub at the MIRA Technology Park on the Leicestershire/Warwickshire border. The new site will be used to help automotive and other tech companies develop low carbon technologies. The 850 acre tech park, off the A5 between Hinckley and Nuneaton, is already home to tenants including Aston Martin, Bentley, Bosch, Jaguar Land...