Social media firms reminded of ‘responsibility’ over coronavirus misinformation
The Prime Minister has said social media platforms had a key role to play in stopping false information spreading online.
UK News|Mar 3, 2020
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Google tests homeworking in Covid-19 exercise
One worker has reported flu-like symptoms which have not been confirmed as a strain of the coronavirus.
UK News|Mar 2, 2020
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‘Proposals have kids at their heart’
ONE of the messages that came out of a meeting between parents of Vauvert Primary School pupils and educationalists was that not everyone was against the two-school model.
News|Feb 26, 2020
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Google apologises for overnight Nest security camera outage
A ‘scheduled storage server software update that didn’t go as intended’ has been blamed for the issue.
UK News|Feb 25, 2020
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Government looks set to miss smoke-free target, charity warns
The Government pledged last July to end smoking in England by 2030 as part of a range of measures to tackle the causes of preventable ill health.
UK News|Feb 25, 2020
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Grace Millane’s mother tells killer of her torment
The Millane family have since set up a charity in her memory called Love Grace.
UK News|Feb 21, 2020
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Grace Millane killer jailed for 17 years
The defendant was told his actions amounted to “conduct that underscores a lack of empathy and sense of self-entitlement and objectification”.
UK News|Feb 20, 2020
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Origins of immune system mapped ‘opening doors for immunotherapies’
The information could help researchers engineer improved therapeutic T cells.
UK News|Feb 20, 2020
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Google: UK user data not at risk from post-Brexit move to the US
The tech giant said the same data protections will apply despite the shift.
UK News|Feb 20, 2020
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What the papers say – February 20
Flooding continues to make headlines on Thursday.
UK News|Feb 20, 2020
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EU proposes rules for artificial intelligence to limit risks
The EU’s executive commission said it wants to develop a ‘framework for trustworthy artificial intelligence’.
World News|Feb 19, 2020
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Artificial intelligence ‘could prevent disease’
Experts have been looking at whether technology can be used to predict conditions early enough for effective treatment.
UK News|Feb 14, 2020
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Google reveals its top searches linked to coronavirus
NHS and World Health Organisation guidelines help answer the most commons questions from the public.
UK News|Feb 13, 2020
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Twitter and Facebook fined in Russia for refusal to store personal data
Legislation enacted in 2012 was designed to tighten the government’s grip on online activity.
World News|Feb 13, 2020
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New online harms rules will be tough on social media, Government insists
Home Secretary Priti Patel has pledged that new regulator Ofcom ‘will have teeth’ to hold tech companies to account.
UK News|Feb 13, 2020
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