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World-first: Imaging a patient's eye using a single photonic chip

A Bristol-based start-up has developed technology which could change how millions monitor sight loss, paving the way for home and community-based diagnosis. 

Supercharging 6G delivery: a breakthrough in semiconductor technology

Self-driving cars which eliminate traffic jams, instant healthcare diagnosis, and feeling the touch of loved ones from across continents all took a step closer to reality, thanks to pioneering new research in semiconductor technology led by the University of Bristol.

Digitised borders

We tend to imagine borders as physical objects—walls, barbed wire, features of the landscape like The Channel, an officer in a booth. But today’s borders are digitised. Future borders will be ‘efficient, smart, and responsive’ thanks to biometrics, facial recognition software and fully digital records of immigration status.  But as sociodigital technologies, whose futures are they playing out?

Reimagining the role of cryptography

Dr. Chloe Martindale, specialises in cryptography. In this article she explains that whilst current cryptography is doing a good job of encrypting our data online and keeping it safe - there is a new technology on the horizon that will render existing cryptographic protocols useless. That technology is quantum.

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