Starling

• Engine by Starling provides banks with access to the cloud native, modular and API-based banking platform initially built by Starling’s own in-house tech team to run Starling Bank.
• Engine is now available to banks around the globe and has recently announced its first two clients: Salt Bank in Romania and AMP Bank in Australia.
• GFT has been selected as one of Engine’s partners for providing design, integration and implementation services for banks that adopt the Engine platform.
• Sam Everington, CEO of Engine by Starling, said: “We've partnered with GFT for their deep technical skills, platform focus and entrepreneurial approach.

• The solution is made possible through its strategic partnership with OneID , a UK Government-certified identity provider.
• Sumsub is the first global firm to offer document-free verification services as part of a holistic compliance solution across the whole user journey.
• OneID enables Sumsub to provide lightning-fast verification in less than five seconds - far quicker than the industry's average onboarding time of two minutes.
• Finally, Sumsub instantly retrieves and verifies the required data, successfully onboarding the new customer without any documents.

• The launches will be the 7th and 8th missions Rocket Lab has launched for NASA since 2018.
• Analysis of PREFIRE’s measurements will inform climate and ice models, providing better projections of how a warming world will affect sea ice loss, ice sheet melt, and sea level rise.
• Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company with an established track record of mission success.
• Rocket Lab has three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a private orbital launch site located in New Zealand and a third launch pad in Virginia.

• And now research into swarming has the potential to change things for humans too.
• These are just two examples from nature but swarming can be seen in almost every corner of the animal kingdom.
• Research from mathematicians, biologists and social scientists is helping us understand swarming and harness its power.
• Artificial life expert Craig Reynolds revolutionised the study of swarming in 1986 with the publication of the Boids model computer simulation.

The hive mind

• Industry experts and conventional machine learning algorithms made swathes of incorrect predictions.
• However, amateur racing enthusiasts recruited by Unanimous AI pooled their knowledge to beat the 541/1 odds.
• Responding to one another in real time allowed Unanimous AI’s volunteers to collectively outperform highly-informed individuals.

Health concerns

• Similar swarming technologies are also of increasing interest in the healthcare sector, where talk of an AI revolution is prompting increasing concerns around patient privacy.
• One way to meet these demands is to pool information between institutions and in some cases, countries.
• Centralised machine learning uses data uploaded to a shared hub where machine learning takes place using all available data.
• This process ensures that raw patient data is not exchanged between institutions, preserving patient privacy.

Swarms and warfare

• Current defence research aims to facilitate communication between drones, allowing one controller to operate swarms of drones.
• As technology evolves, the role of swarm intelligence is set to grow, intertwining our world with the fascinating dynamics of swarms.