England ditches its shitty exam result algorithm after it penalized poorer students
British police to trial facial recognition system that detects your mood
England’s new contact-tracing app has a big distance problem
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Algorithm downgrades nearly 40% of English exam results, hitting poorer students hardest
An algorithm that determined A-level grades in England has downgraded 39% of predicted results -- with disadvantaged students ...
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Algorithm that determines school exam results risks 'baking in inequality'
Politicians fear an algorithm used to calculate exam results will further entrench inequalities in the education system.
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'World's first' AI-generated arts festival program opens this Friday
An AI system called ImprovBot has created a range of new shows for a virtual Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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UK ditches visa algorithm accused of creating ‘speedy boarding for white people'
The British government is scrapping a controversial algorithm used in visa applications that campaigners say discriminated ...
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US surveillance company Palantir nabs £1M UK COVID-19 contract
In for a penny, in for a pound. The UK yesterday revealed US surveillance company Palantir had secured a £1 million contract renewal to continue its work on the country's COVID-19 data-aggregation project. That's a hefty increase over the initial contract signed just four months ...
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UK bans Huawei from 5G network, citing security risks triggered by US sanctions
Britain has announced it's banning Huawei from the country's 5G network, mere months after agreeing to keep the firm as ...
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Apple wasn't told UK was developing a 'hybrid' COVID-19 app with its tech
Britain's contact-tracing shambles suffered another setback today when Apple revealed it didn't know the country was developing ...
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UK ditches its coronavirus contact-tracing app and switches to Google-Apple model
The UK is swapping its centralized contact-tracing app for one based on the Google-Apple model after mounting issues with ...
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AI is tracking down the UK's biggest foe: Japanese knotweed
Scientists are using AI to find invasive species of plants, including the scourge of British homes and gardens: Japanese ...
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UK Health Secretary clueless about data breach at controversial GP app he publicly endorsed
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock admitted this morning that he was unaware of a data breach at the virtual doctor app ...
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The BBC has launched a digital assistant to take on Alexa -- but Amazon won't be worried
The BBC has launched an early version of a voice assistant called Beeb, which it's given a male voice to avoid reinforcing gender stereotypes. Beeb can access the broadcaster's radio, music, podcasts, news, and weather services. It was built with Microsoft's AI tech and is being ...
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Scientists are using AI to predict which lung cancer patients will relapse
A new AI tool could predict which lung cancer patients will suffer a relapse by analyzing genetic data and pathology images ...
