The algorithms quietly stoking inflation
The prices of most goods are not set by humans, but by automatic processes set to maximise their owners’ gains.
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How does Britain build a “good” digital society?
The tech sector needs guidance, not laissez-faire governance.
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How Registers of Scotland modernised the world’s oldest land register
Powered by AWS, the Scottish government body is on an evolving digital journey.
UK AI ambitions “undermined” by digital inaction on digital exclusion
Lack of access to broadband and a skills gap is costing the economy billions every year, says a House of…
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“Outdated” IT and digital skills gap hinder NHS digital transformation, say MPs
New report reveals legacy tech is a barrier to progress for the health service.
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Beware the midwit trap
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best explanation.
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Brexit has an upside: Britain could dominate in high-tech goods and services
The EU has slept through the digital revolution. The UK can capitalise on this, if it prioritises data over diplomacy.
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Keir Starmer wants to “speed up” pace of AI regulation
Labour plans to introduce top-down regulation of artificial intelligence backed by legislation.
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Rishi Sunak touts UK AI safety research at London Tech Week
The Prime Minister says Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI will offer models for safety training.
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Life after Apple
The company's minimalist aesthetic rules the world. Will we ever escape it?
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Britain is not the sick man of Europe – that accolade goes to Germany
To survive in a modern, digital world, the German economy requires not a green transition but a full-scale revolution.
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The internet is unusable now
Pop-ups, farmed content and sponsored posts have ruined a web that once told us whatever we needed to know.
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How Big Tech made us screen addicts
Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired argues that smart devices are engineered to keep our children hooked. Can we hold the industry to…
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What does a digitally transformed government look like?
The UK has targets to reimagine the state’s use of technology. Mike Beaven from AWS discusses how it’s progressing.
Why we need an industrial strategy
Business is deserting the UK as a place to invest.
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Disabled jobseekers are being shut out of finding work
The government needs to invest in tech and training to close the disability employment gap.
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Is North Korea hacking your hospital?
Hospitals are attractive targets for hackers. Here’s how healthcare organisations can avoid being compromised by ransomware.
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The New Age of Tragedy
Great-power rivalry, resource scarcity and the crumbling of the liberal rules-based order.
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This is how GPT-4 will be regulated
Models like GPT-4 could pose a serious challenge to regulators. But US, UK and EU watchdogs' responses have been wildly…
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Our parents were right: we can no longer trust what we see on the internet
I’d been lied to, by the very thing I hold in my hand for the majority of my day. How…
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