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Imagine if four in every five bridges built in Britain fell down. There would be national outrage. The companies building those bridges, the civil servants who ordered them and the ministers in charge would all likely pay with their jobs or worse.

Six Bermudians will be honoured for their contributions to the island’s culture during tomorrow’s Bermuda Day celebrations. Duranda Greene, who is stepping down as head of the Bermuda College after 16...

Ira Guha launched the Asan menstrual cup, designed with engineers at the Harvard-Kennedy lab. For every cup Asan sells, it donates one for free to a woman or girl who suffers from period poverty.

The OECD's Carlos Santiso shares his thoughts on promoting the effective, responsible and ethical use of AI in the public sector.

Academics, economists and executives say the move is regressive and may further entrench gender roles. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Central Digital and Data Office has launched an algorithmic transparency standard for government departments and public sector bodies, strengthening the UK’s position as a world leader in AI governance

We look at the impact of bots on UK elections, where they're coming from, and what can be done to fight back against them.

The US Commerce Department has denied any loosening of its trade restrictions on Huawei Technologies – but did not refute reports that the Chinese tech giant has won approval to procure American semiconductors for its automotive parts business. “The policy has not been eased or amended,” a department spokesperson said on Friday (Aug 27). The department was responding to the...

Post Office scandal reveals a hidden world of outsourced IT the government trusts but does not understand shawnwil23/Shutterstock Friday, April 30, 2021 7:40 AM UTC The convictions of 39 Post Office workers were quashed on April 23 after the UK’s court of appeal heard that the crimes for which they’d been accused were in fact caused by the organisation’s Horizon IT system. The system, supplied by Japanese IT services provider Fujitsu, had erroneously registered cash shortfalls in Post O...

The convictions of 39 Post Office workers were quashed on April 23 after the UK’s court of appeal heard that the crimes for which they’d been accused were in fact caused by the organisation’s Horizon IT system. The system, supplied by Japanese IT services provider Fujitsu, had erroneously registered cash shortfalls in Post Office branches, leading to hundreds of convictions of theft, fraud and false accounting between 2000 and 2014. The scandal is one of the biggest miscarriages of justic...