Upskilling and Reskilling Talent in the Age of AI
Two factors have changed things in recent times. The first is that we are coming out of three years of COVID, during which there has been significant turmoil and changes in the workforce. The second is the advent of generative artificial intelligence, which burst onto the scene massively just a year ago with the arrival […]
Frank Borman: NASA astronaut dies aged 95
Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded NASA’s first Apollo mission to the moon, has died aged 95. Borman commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight, which saw the spacecraft circle the moon 10 times – paving the way for the following year’s lunar landing. He died on Tuesday 7 November in Billings, Montana, NASA said. Paying […]
World’s first whole-eye transplant hailed as breakthrough – but sight not yet restored
Surgeons have performed the world’s first ever whole-eye transplant, a feat hailed as a breakthrough despite the patient not yet regaining his sight. Doctors “never expected it to work at all”, patient Aaron James said, but the eye has shown signs of health, such as functioning blood vessels and a promising retina. It has been […]
Racial bias in AI: Officers questioned father in watch theft probe after he was wrongly identified by facial recognition technology
Three years ago in Detroit, Robert Williams arrived home from work to find the police waiting at his front door, ready to arrest him for a crime he hadn’t committed. Facial recognition technology used by officers had mistaken Williams for a suspect who had stolen thousands of dollars worth of watches. The system linked a […]
Man cleared of sexually assaulting child after 35 years in prison
A man who spent 35 years behind bars in the US after being wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl has been freed from prison thanks to a DNA breakthrough. Louis Wright, now aged 65, had lived near the child’s home in Albion, Michigan, at the time of the attack in 1988 and an […]
Five US service members killed after aircraft suffers ‘mishap’ during training mission
Five US service members have been killed on a routine training mission after the military aircraft carrying them suffered a “mishap” and crashed into the sea. The military personnel were taking part in a routine air refueling mission in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Friday as part of their training, the US defense department confirmed […]
Zoltán Sipos: From Humble Beginnings to Entrepreneurial Success
In the heart of a famous Hungarian ghetto, where life was unrelentingly tough, Zoltán Sipos began a journey that would defy the odds stacked against him. Raised in a cramped, 376-square-foot apartment alongside seven family members, Zoltán’s humble beginnings provided no point of reference for a brighter future. Growing up witnessing the harsh realities of […]
