Author: Rhys Gregory

Eleven year old April Prince from Wrexham has developed such a love for engineering and robotics that she recently returned from China following an appearance on the country’s much-loved Clash Bots show, which is streamed online and watched by hundreds of millions of people every week. While competing on Clash Bots, similar to the UKs Robot Wars, April debuted her personally engineered ‘Dragon Princess’ robot, the latest robot in her collection which began with the pink axe machine ‘Glitterbomb’, that turned into a social media sensation following its appearance on UK Robot Wars in 2016. The Dragon Princess robot was…

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A Cardiff resident has been given the go-ahead to start the first legal challenge to a UK police force’s use of automated facial recognition (AFR) technology, in what will be a critical nationwide test of the state’s power to deploy radical biometric surveillance methods. Ed Bridges – represented by human rights organisation Liberty – had threatened legal action against South Wales Police if it did not immediately end its use of AFR technology in public spaces. Chief Constable Matt Jukes has now confirmed the force will not seek to prevent the case from taking place – paving the way for…

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A North Wales promotional merchandise company is championing the use of Welsh to meet a growing demand from customers to use the language. Sional Promotional Merchandise from Llanfairfechan, which has customers around the world, is seeing a rise in inquiries from Welsh-speaking customers on its doorstep. The company has worked with a Gwynedd design firm to create a bilingual site. It comes as research shows that more businesses and local authorities are reporting benefits from using Welsh in the office, while consumers are calling for more opportunities to use it in their daily lives – and especially while shopping. The…

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