• The Register, Thursday, January 7, 2016 11:22 AM

Blighty's universities have teamed up to today unveil a £28m "Internet of Things" research hub in a bid to make the UK a "world leader" in the much-hyped technology. The Hub is a consortium of nine universities and 47 partners from industry and the public sector. Funding for the Hub includes a £9.8m grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which will be boosted by partner contributions to approximately £23m in total. The consortium will work together over the next three years to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security, said the EPSRC in a press release.

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