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Unbound achieves first Sunday Times number one bestseller

Unbound has achieved its first ever number one Sunday Times bestseller with 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams edited by Kevin Jon Davies.

The book reached number one in the newspaper’s general hardbacks chart. It was number two in Hardback Non-Fiction in Nielsen BookScan’s charts behind Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Air Fryer Cookbook by Nathan Anthony (Ebury). The Sunday Times hardback non-fiction chart does not include cookbooks.

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Sequestim demonstrates walk-through security scanner with “space technology”

Sequestim has begun a series of demonstrations for investors to show how its walk-through security scanner uses space technology to detect hidden objects.

By detecting heat from the human body, which acts as a light bulb, it can easily detect and identify concealed items, even through heavy clothing. Originally developed by researchers at Cardiff University to study the most distant objects in the universe, the scanner films people as they walk by. Unlike the body scanners now in use at airports, no radiation is shone at the passenger, and nobody sees the images, which in any case do not show intimate physical details. According to the company, the security scanner can cut airport passenger queues.

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Thought Machine expands to Latin America with Chilean lending platform Cordada

Thought Machine is expanding into Latin America with its latest client, private debt platform Cordada.

The Chilean company, which provides solutions for fintechs and lenders serving SMEs in Latin America, will use Thought Machine’s cloud-native core banking platform ‘Vault Core’ to create personalised financial products.

Currently operating in Chile, Peru and Mexico, it plans to use Thought Machine’s Vault platform to expand to new markets in Latin America and to expand its suite of lending solutions.

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