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Join the Fight for Climate Justice: GAME CHANGERS - An Interactive Narrative Game
GAME CHANGERS represents a collaborative odyssey delving into climate activism, accomplished through an immersive decision-making game and live performance. The project emerges from the innovative collaboration between the interactive studio Megaverse, esteemed academics, creative minds, and cutting-edge technologists. Three actors in motion capture as avatars, joined by a fourth as...
Rail vs. Road: How Northern's Top Commuter Route Cuts 250,000 kg of CO₂e Emissions
Northern has revealed the CO₂e emission saving of its top commuter route into Newcastle. Every year, more than 45,000 (45,073) people commute between Carlisle and Newcastle by train for work. By making that journey by rail, they are helping to prevent more than 250,000 kg (263,226.32) of carbon dioxide equivalent from...
GPT-4 is OpenAI’s most advanced system
OpenAI has released the latest version of its generative pre-trained transformer system, GPT-4, which can generate text on input images. GPT-4 is a state-of-the-art system that can describe images in response to a person’s written commands. Currently there's a waitlist for the API available here, or if you subscribe...
Newcastle Residents Think The House Of The Future Will Have Solar Panels, Rainwater Collection Devices And EV Charging Points To Help Reach "Net Zero" Landfill waste gadgets, heat pumps and wind turbines also make into the top half dozen suggestions for what houses of the future will feature to help...
Newcastle Business Owner Joins Nationwide Taskforce to Boost SME Growth
Sophie Milliken, the North East entrepreneur behind Moja, a profile-building agency, has joined a brand new taskforce to help UK SMEs tackle the challenges and barriers they’re facing in 2022 and beyond. The Great British Entrepreneur Awards (GBEA) and Vodafone have teamed up to launch the fully-funded initiative, ‘Disruptive Minds’,...
Building AI capability across the region
An award from a prestigious scientific institute is to help Teesside University drive greater collaboration between and academia and industry in the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The University has been successful in applying for funding from the Alan Turing Institute, the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. The...
Food Packaging Specialist Launches Ground-breaking Concept
Food packaging specialist PFF Group has launched a ground-breaking, fully recyclable packaging product suitable for all food applications. Amid increasing demand from food manufacturers for plastic reduction, the new concept – known as IMPAC-T – uses less plastic than equivalent PET packaging and can be typically used for dairy products...
Learning New Skills on The Rise
The regeneration partnership building new homes in Scotswood has created two further apprenticeships. Owen Tierney, 17, from Fenham and Alex Walker, also 17, from Scotswood, have started work at New Tyne West Development Company’s, The Rise. They follow in the footsteps of the 15 apprentices to have already learned a...
Heart Research UK Granted Over £8,000 for Gateshead Community Project
Gateshead Older People’s Assembly has been granted over £8,000 by Heart Research UK for their new project which promotes and provides wellbeing opportunities to people over the age of 50. The Gateshead-based charity works to support older people in areas of their life such as physical and mental health, personal...
Top Ways To COntribute To Saving The Planet According To Newcastle Research
Research released to coincide with COP 26 shows Newcastle’s statistics on  activities around energy and recycling    People in Newcastle are actively participating in a range of activities to save the planet with more than 90% trying to do their bit now to save the planet according to research revealed...

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