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April 26, 2020 05:35 pm
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Company Spends $25M Building Ventilators That Are Now No Longer Needed
U.K. vacuum cleaner company Dyson "said the British government no longer needed the ventilator it had developed from scratch," reports Reuters:Company founder James Dyson said the company had welcomed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's challenge to build ventilators. "Mercifully they are not required, but we don't regret our contribution to the national effort for one moment," he said in a statement. Dyson said his company had spent around 20 million pounds ($25 million) on the project to date, and would not accept any public money. "I have some hope that our ventilator may yet help the response in other countries, but that requires further time and investigation," he said.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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