T he Government must not allow artificial intelligence (AI) developers the free use of copyrighted songs and books for training, MPs have urged. Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee told ministers to heed the “chorus of warnings from musicians, authors and artists” about the risks of failing to protect intellectualContinue Reading
T he Crown Prince of Kuwait had his visit to Number 10 partially disrupted by opponents of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez), who staged a protest against the scheme outside Downing Street. The meeting between Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Saba and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak coincided with a loud demonstrationContinue Reading
N otting Hill Carnival should be moved and potentially held in a park, the Conservative Party’s London mayoral candidate has said, following a spate of stabbing incidents. Two men are in hospital, one in a critical condition, after attacks at the festival held in the streets of west London onContinue Reading
The upcoming final season of “The Crown” will cover Princess Diana’s death “delicately”, according to the show’s makers. Executive producer Suzanne Mackie said the team behind the Netflix series had “a very, very careful, long, long, long conversation” about the depiction of the 1997 car crash in Paris that claimed Diana’s life atContinue Reading
L abour peer Lord Alan Haworth has died aged 75, the party has confirmed. He was a secretary of the parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 2004, then became a member of the House of Lords. The party said he died on Monday morning on holiday in Iceland with wifeContinue Reading
T housands of patients across England have been injured by faulty medical equipment in A&E departments in the past five years, Labour has said. The party has promised to help tackle the problem by allowing the NHS to bulk buy the latest technology and cutting “unnecessary” red tape. It comesContinue Reading
T he chair of Scotland’s Covid-19 inquiry has promised a “robust investigation” into how Scottish ministers responded to the pandemic. During a preliminary hearing of the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry, Lord Brailsford paid tribute to those who had lost loved ones or had been severely impacted by the events between JanuaryContinue Reading
It's still not clear what effect these plans could have on the spread of COVID. Tong_stocker/ Shutterstock COVID boosters will be available to buy from high-street pharmacists and private healthcare providers across the UK in 2024. The news comes just weeks after the UK government announced that free boosters wouldContinue Reading
shutterstock Bad data does not only produce bad outcomes. It can also help to suppress sections of society, for instance vulnerable women and minorities. This is the argument of my new book on the relationship between various forms of racism and sexism and artificial intelligence (AI). The problem is acute.Continue Reading
A Labour government would “give patients back control over their own healthcare” and reverse the “managed decline” of the NHS, the shadow health secretary has said. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Wes Streeting said the Government under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Steve Barclay is in “too weakContinue Reading
