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By Joanna Goodman11 January 2021 Cloud technology was already transforming legal services and making courts more efficient before the pandemic hit. 2021 will present new challenges to a remote workforce Traditionally, this is the time when people make predictions for the year ahead – but in 2021 predictions seem somewhat hollow. Nobody anticipated 2020’s global pandemic, although it has been flagged up as a possibility multiple times in recent decades. In fiction, Nigel Watts’ 1995 novel Twenty Twenty is set in 2020 during a pandemic (Watts died in 1999, so did not witness the accuracy ...
The vast majority of DeepMind's spending in 2019 went on "staff and other related costs," with the annual report showing that some £468 million went toward this, up from £398 million in 2018. DeepMind now employs around 1,000 people worldwide, including some of the world's leading AI research scientists, who can command annual salaries of more than $1 million. These top people, who often have Ph.D.s from the likes of Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford or MIT, can command this sort of money because they're also sought after by Big Tech companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. A DeepMin...