Author: Trendici
You may already have read Illya Verpraet’s comprehensive report on the new Volkswagen T-Roc, dispatched from Lisbon in November. And in just a couple of months’ time you’ll be able to read an even more comprehensive review bolstered by economy and performance figures obtained at Horiba Mira proving ground, when the T-Roc undergoes its full road test. But in case this is somehow not enough T-Roc for you, here’s a brief report from the car’s fresh-off-the-boat arrival into the UK – a market in which the first-gen model was spectacularly successful between 2017 and 2025, even as its specific niche became increasingly…
For Bernard Seiser, being vice-president of digital, data and IT at healthcare specialist AOP Health is the latest leg in a digital leadership journey that’s included some of the biggest names in the life sciences industry. He describes the opportunity to bring change to AOP as exciting. “We are working in interesting times,” he says. “We’re doing a lot of things around digitisation. We are an attractive place to work. We have a clear vision. We want to grow and ensure that we meet the unmet needs of our patients.” Founded in 1996, Vienna-based AOP Health is a pioneer…
Ford of Britain and Ireland boss Lisa Brankin has been named the most influential woman in the British automotive industry at the Autocar Great Women Awards 2026. Autocar Great Women is an initiative held in association with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) to celebrate the achievements of the most influential women from across the motoring sector. At this year’s ceremony, held at the Stellantis UK headquarters in Coventry on 16 April, we recognised the influence of 108 inspiring female leaders in 11 categories, including executive, vehicle development, sales, PR and communications and talent. Each category’s shortlist was topped…
Image Generated with Google’s Nano Banana 2. Adobe wants Firefly to do more than generate content, moving into agentic creative work that can carry out multi-step tasks across its creative apps. In a press release, Adobe said the assistant will work through a single conversational interface, while new editing tools and additional partner models expand Firefly into a broader creative workflow engine, not just a place to create AI images and videos. One assistant, many Adobe apps Adobe is calling the system behind it a “creative agent,” with Firefly AI Assistant able to take a user’s request and carry it across multiple Adobe tools.…
Street Fighter, the upcoming live-action film based on Capcom’s tentpole franchise, has a lengthy new trailer ahead of its October 16 premiere. Although the entire cast gets a spotlight, this new look shines a particuarly larger light on Ryu and Ken. The film shows Chun-Li’s quest to find champions for the tournament, seeking out Ryu and Ken, who both appear to be down on their luck. It doesn’t take long to see them unleash their signature moves alongside the rest of the roster as Street Fighter continues to look equal parts faithful to the source material and absolutely ridiculous (in a…
Setting consistent standards has been a persistent bugbear in the engineering of cars since the year dot. Trouble is, everybody has a different idea of how to do things, so the world ends up with umpteen different versions of the same thing with little or no compatibility. Take the various EV charging connectivity options, such as Type 1, Type 2, Chademo and CCS. Which type dominates can depend on where you live in the world. Volkswagen has nipped this phenomenon in the bud where EV battery and battery cell design are concerned. Its Unified Cell, which we have previously reported…
UK financial services regulators are taking action to reduce the risks posed by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the finance sector. The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have both agreed to take steps following criticism in a report from MPs on the Treasury Committee that was published in January. Committee chair Meg Hillier MP said that although the Bank of England is “grasping the nettle to some extent”, she was “perplexed at the apparent inertia shown by the Treasury” over placing IT suppliers to the finance sector within the Critical Third Parties Regime (CTPR). In the report,…
Do you know which company made the oil filter in your car? What about the seats or the windscreen? Unless you recently changed any of these parts yourself, it’s likely that you don’t. And why would you? They make little material difference. You might know that the eight-speed automatic gearbox comes from ZF, but there’s not much you can do to change that even if you really wanted to. But you might know whether you have Goodyears or Pirellis. Now, I’m sure the average motorist couldn’t care less whether the pieces of overpriced rubber on which their car sits say…
On 27 April, the government backed security certification scheme, Cyber Essentials v3.3, takes effect and multi-factor authentication (MFA) becomes a pass-or-fail requirement for the first time. If a cloud service your organisation uses offers MFA and you have not enabled it, you fail. No discretion, no partial credit, no route to remediate inside the assessment cycle. This is the right call. I want to say that clearly, because what follows is a problem with the implementation, not the policy. MFA is the single most effective control against credential-based attacks, and the scheme has needed to stop tolerating its absence…
The rush for electric company cars is out of step with natural demand for EVs, causing an oversupplied used market and heavy losses when cars are de-fleeted. That’s according to a new report from the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA), whose members run a combined fleet of 1.6 million cars and account for a large share of new EV registrations each year. Data from the fourth quarter of 2025 shows that demand for electric company cars continued to surge, supported by cheaper newcomers reaching showrooms and aggressive discounting from manufacturers trying to meet the government’s ZEV mandate targets. Both…