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Businesses have in 2020 and 2019 been experiencing more frequent cyber breaches or attacks than they were in 2017, according to the British government’s official Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2020, with 32% of businesses (compared to 22% in 2017) and 22% of charities that reported attacks experiencing these issues at least once a week in 2020 and 2019.…

Ecommerce is becoming an increasingly popular way to order food and drink, with home deliveries booming during the current Covid-19 health emergency. But to what extent are such deliveries generating carbon emissions through fuel and additional packaging waste? E-commerce accounts for an increasingly large slice of the global retail market, growing 28% in 2017, 22.9% in 2018 and by 20.7% in 2019, to USD3.535 trillion, and forecast to reach USD4.2 trillion in 2020, according to eMarketer’s Global Ecommerce Forecast 2019.…

In principle, the technology of osmotic power, known widely as ‘blue energy’, has a lot going for it: unlike wind or sunlight, its electricity generating technique of mixing freshwater and saltwater at the mouths of estuaries is constant, with electrically charged salt ions moving from salty seawater to fresh river water.…

DIGITAL textile printers continue to seek for technological ways by which they can leverage the innate advantages their equipment has over conventional printing, and one is exploring the use of nanoparticles in finishing chemicals – delivering innovation that can sharpen the existing competitive advantage in design and sustainability enjoyed by digital printers.…

South-east Asia is not known for a tradition of eating dairy products, but actually consumers in the region’s most populous country Indonesia (population 270 million people) have been eating cheese for more than a century (partly thanks Indonesia’s historic links with the Netherlands) and the country has a thriving domestic dairy industry.…

CYBER-SECURITY specialists are already considering how to make IT systems resist a hack based on a quantum computer, an emerging technology that is starting to demonstrate its potential to calculate problems that elude current digital computers, let alone humans. Keith Nuthall reports

QUANTUM computing is here.…

European aluminium cansheet and foilsheet rolling factories say they are trying hard to adapt to production under strict Covid-19 controls imposed by their national governments to satisfy the growing need for foodstuffs across Europe that are safe and have a long shelf life.…

With the Korea Cosmetic Industry Institute (KCII) estimating there were USD11.7 billion’s worth of South Korean-made personal care products (‘K-beauty’) sales in 2019, including nearly USD6.49 billion in exports, and more than 16,000 individuals and businesses officially licensed to provide cosmetic products and services, South Korea’s cosmetic industry has the innate strength it will need to cope with the Covid-19 crisis.…

Digital printing is still a relatively new concept to Poland’s traditional fabric finishing sector – but national pride in the country’s well-established textile sector is sparking a desire to modernise so it can maintain its competitive edge. Much of the resulting investment has been focused on local and independent textile printers located throughout the country – but a significant number of these are based in Łódz, central Poland, a key textile manufacturing hub, with the port-town of Gdynia also being home to upgraded finishing plants.…

The can making and filling sectors have become beneficiaries – at least in the short term – of consumers turning their kitchen cupboards into pandemic pantries, stockpiling canned food and other long-lasting products because they fear of food shortages because of Covid-19.…