A team of researchers led by experts from Newcastle University has highlighted how slick, well-designed websites and apps can be used to sell high-cost loans to poor and vulnerable people.
The websites include sliders that customers can play around with, brightly coloured ‘apply now’ buttons, forms that are simple to...
The government has praised the creation of a growing cross-sector initiative aiming to make North East England’s greenest region.
In a major report from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Voluntary Organisations’ Network North East (VONNE), the support organisation for the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector...
Recent years have seen the automotive industry undergo a major transition. The faithful internal combustion engine is being retired after more than a century of faithful service, and the battery electric vehicle is taking its place – with a few hybrid vehicles helping to bridge the gap.
What is the...
A group of ground-breaking Newcastle scientists have received a £5 million grant to look at ways of tackling cancers that afflict children and young people.
The grant – from Cancer Research UK – will be split between three teams based at the Cancer Research Newcastle Centre.
One cancer that the grant...
From escalating rents to the need for rapid scalability, small businesses are facing a myriad of challenges when it comes to building a customer base and making a liveable profit.
Modular buildings have emerged as a potential game changer for these concerns.
These structures, premade in a factory and assembled...
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...
A new centre is to be set up in Newcastle, which will explore therapies aimed at helping those with currently incurable diseases.
The Northern Alliance Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre will conduct research into cutting-edge gene, cell and tissue-engineered therapies. The centre, which will be run jointly by Newcastle University...
How effective will Global Climate Strikes be today?
Today, (20 Sept 2019) millions of people from 150 countries around the world are calling on their governments to reverse the effects of pollution on global climate and environment issues.
This year's youth climate movement has influenced a sense of urgency on Climate...
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...
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’,...
