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LONDON – The British government said Wednesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson did nothing wrong when he exchanged text messages with a wealthy industrialist and promised he would “fix” the tax rules for him. The BBC reported that it had seen messages between Johnson and James Dyson, the vacuum cleaner inventor and home products magnate. …

The team at Scope will continue to develop this technology and aim to bring it to other sectors A group of five nanotechnology engineering graduates from the University of Waterloo have come far with their startup technology company becoming a worldwide runner-up for the 2020 James Dyson Award for student inventors. It has been just over …

The technology institute founded by the inventor Sir James Dyson will soon have the power to award its own degrees – the first of the new wave of alternative providers. The Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, which opened in 2017 on the site of Dyson’s design centre in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, has 150 engineering undergraduates …

Since the engineering firm Dyson unveiled a prototype ventilator that it said could help arm the NHS for a surge in Covid-19 patients, there has been scepticism about its role. The billionaire entrepreneur Sir James Dyson is better known for his bagless vacuum cleaners, his backing for Brexit and more recently an attempt to build …

Freeman Dyson died today, at age 96. He was one of the foremost physicists of his generation, and also wrote widely on the relationships between science, technology, and the world. He wrote occasionally for The New Yorker in the 1970s and 1980s, and, for many years, was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of …

The inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, James Dyson, has reportedly lined up the purchase of a second luxury property in Singapore, complete with an infinity pool and indoor waterfall. Weeks after it was revealed that he had snapped up the city-state’s priciest penthouse, the Straits Times newspaper reported on Friday that the British billionaire …

Technology is making everything smarter. Be it an LED lamp, a wardrobe or a hair dryer – like the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer that we reviewed last year — every gadget is getting a brain of its own. The same technology is also personalising these gadgets. Up until now we have seen gizmos like headphones …