Hollande turns to robots and driverless cars to boost France September 12, 2013 FRANCOIS Hollande laid out a 10-year roadmap yesterday to revive French industry by promoting new technologies to drive job creation, but which offered little public money from stretched state coffers. The socialist president, whose 2014 national budget next month will focus on curbing spending, vowed to turn back what he called a lost decade of [...]
Self-driving pods and 3D printing will be the real challenge for Royal Mail September 12, 2013 TWENTY years ago, as the web came into existence, it was obvious that Royal Mail would be carrying fewer personal and business letters by now, that there would be a vast rise in junk mail and another huge increase in parcel deliveries thanks to online buying. All of those expectations have come true. After a [...]