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Ulster University is playing a lead role in supporting this cross-Border initiative

<p><span>During the pandemic, UK firms have invested considerable sums in their technology as they cater for employees working from home. Data from the Office for National Statistics suggests this trend is continuing as investment in new technologies is still gaining traction – increasing by more than 7% from Q4 2019 to Q2 2021.</span></p>

Ethereum’s Altair upgrade is about to go live, in a big step towards a faster, greener ethereum 2.0.

By Daniel Broby for The Conversation The world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, ether, has been touching all-time highs in price ahead of a major upgrade of its underlying platform, ethereum. Ether is currently worth in aggregate just shy of US$500 billion (£363 billion). That’s still slightly less than half that of the biggest cryptocurrency, bitcoin.

Mark Zuckerberg wants to reinvent Facebook. He has been telling analysts and journalists that he wants the company to lead the way to a completely different internet. He said: In the coming years, I expect people will transition from seeing us primarily as a social media company to seeing us as a metaverse company … In many ways the metaverse is the ultimate expression of social technology. So what does the Facebook chief executive mean by “metaverse company"? And what will the company look...

I think bahrain will stabilize before long. in terms of where im more worried about in -- across the region, i would say it has to be in places like yemen and so forth. >> you have more significant operations in egypt. you established your own office there a couple of years ago and have staff there. how worried are you about the regime change now? are they pro dbusiness or anti-business? we have the stock exchange opening this morning? >> yes. the stock exchange was stopped for a period of time,...

To bahrain, the government is tells its citizens to stay out of lebanon this comes after hamas came out in support of bahrains majority shiite population who have been protesting against their countrys minority sunni rulers. the unrest in the middle east can also create challenges for companies doing business there, especially if they already have established contracts with old regimes. daniel, you have assets right across the spectrum from bahrain to egypt. what is it like having contracts in...