No10: We can’t rule out AI posing ‘existential threat’ to humanity October 25, 2023 No10 says it is unable to rule out artificial intelligence (AI) posing an “existential threat” to humanity.
Football’s data wars takes another turn, but can players really protect their information? July 11, 2023 A former Leyton Orient, Scarborough and Yeovil Town manager may seem an unlikely figure to be at the forefront of football’s data wars, but a landmark announcement in the Netherlands this week can be traced back to Russell Slade. Fifpro, the international union for professional footballers, on Tuesday announced the creation of a new database [...]
DeepVerge overhauls leadership team as it hunts for emergency cash October 25, 2022 Listed life sciences firm Deepverge announced it would completely refresh its leadership team today as it scrambles to raise emergency cash.
Promising research on synthetic corneas from London university October 17, 2022 | City Talk Aisha Memon, graduate from University College London and Dr Hirak Patra, Associate Professor of Nanomedicine and Regenerative Medicine at the University College London. The cornea is an avascular and clear structure present in the anterior part of the eye. It is responsible for mechanical support and protection as well as for light refraction, making it [...]
KPMG strikes deal with Alteryx to boost data analytics capabilities June 16, 2022 KPMG entered into a “strategic alliance” with California tech firm Alteryx, as part of the accountancy firm’s push to boost its data analytics capabilities. The Big Four firms’ deal with the analytics automation firm will see KPMG push forward with plans to automate its own systems, while also giving it the means to help clients [...]
Big data: what is it and who is using it? May 13, 2022 | City Talk As the capabilities of analytics technology become ever more sophisticated, how are organisations mining and using this information and what are they doing with it? The value of information has been described as on par with and, depending on the information and how it is used, exceeding that of precious metals and fossil fuels. Although [...]
HMRC splashes £12m on data analysts February 16, 2022 HMRC has almost tripled its yearly spend on data analyst and data scientist roles over the past five years, according to official figures. The data, retrieved via the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) and analysed by the Parliament Street think tank, revealed a large uptake in data analyst and data science staff year on year [...]
Data experts team up with Google, Microsoft and Mastercard for new UK post-Brexit govt council January 25, 2022 In order to boost cross-border data flow and trade post-Brexit, the government has set up a new council that comprises of a group of data experts from industry giants and academia. The International Data Transfer Expert Council will include representatives from the likes of Google, Mastercard and Microsoft when it meets for the first time [...]
Exclusive: Mayor of Newham Rokhsana Fiaz OBE on why local boroughs should capitalise on Londoners’ data January 15, 2022 Having received £40m from the Government’s levelling up fund to help build a ‘data corridor’ in London, Rokhsana Fiaz, the Mayor of Newham, argues open data is vital for the capital’s economy. The Council recently launched ‘Newham Sparks’, an initiative to attract investors to develop a data corridor in London, targeted at businesses working in [...]
Science: UK to take the lead on detector for powerful new particle collider October 11, 2021 Nuclear and particle physicists in the UK will be leading preliminary work to help design detectors at a new facility in the US. The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory, America, with the aim of providing answers to some of the most fundamental questions in science on the nature of matter. [...]