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WMG and the School of Engineering at the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ have been awarded just over £5 million funding and a key coordinating role in the Government’s Driving the Electric Revolution Industrialisation Centre programme.

A system that will enable musicians to play alone, but as if part of a live ensemble, is being developed by researchers from WMG, University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, led by the University of Birmingham.

Space weather often manifests as substorms, where a beautiful auroral display such as the Northern Lights is accompanied by an electrical current in space which has effects at earth that can interfere with and damage power distribution and electrical systems. Now, the lifecycle of these auroral substorms has been revealed using social media-inspired mathematical tools to analyse space weather observations across the Earth’s surface.

Since the introduction of plastic (polymer) banknotes in 2016, the number of counterfeit notes on the streets has increased, however, researchers from Department of Computer Science at the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ have developed a novel technique called Polymer Substrate Fingerprinting, which identifies every banknote’s fingerprint which is unique and unclonable.

There has been a remarkable surge in cyber-security crime experienced during the global COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular significance between governmental policy announcements and cyber-crime campaigns. A consortium of researchers, including WMG, University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ report that some days as many as 3 to 4 new cyber-attacks were being reported.

ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Arts Centre has been successful in its bid to the HS2 Community and Environment Fund (CEF) and have secured £250,000 towards their ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ 20:20 project.