Month: August 2020

The marking system which threatened to downgrade the exam results was not a “mutant algorithm” as claimed by the prime minister, but contained errors that were “predictable” and “could have been foreseen”, according to a leading statistician. Boris Johnson told a group of schoolchildren on Wednesday that “I’m afraid your grades were almost derailed by
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Amazon is launching a wearable wellness band and app it claims can read someone’s emotions using their voice. Unlike other health gadgets from the likes of Apple, Fitbit and Samsung, Amazon‘s Halo does not have a screen – which the tech giant says means it “won’t interrupt or distract you”, and is “comfortable, secure and
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The Home Office has admitted an advert attacking “activist lawyers” who represent people fighting deportation should not have been published – but has so far failed to remove it. The department’s top civil servant, permanent secretary Matthew Rycroft, upheld complaints against the video tweeted out on Wednesday. It sparked widespread condemnation from legal figures and
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The real-life partners of the EastEnders cast will appear on screen to allow “moments of intimacy” amid social distancing measures, the crew have revealed. Kissing scenes will feature actors’ husbands, wives, boyfriends and girlfriends – but camera angles will be used to make them look like their on-screen partners, executive producer Jon Sen said. Perspex
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An artificial intelligence algorithm has confirmed the existence of 50 new planets after it was used to analyse old NASA data. The algorithm, created by astronomers and scientists at the University of Warwick, was used to look at previous telescope missions. Data from NASA’s Kepler and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), missions investigating planets outside
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A 166-million-year-old dinosaur fossil has been found by a scientist while out running along the beach of a Scottish island. Measuring around 50cm (19in) long, the ancient limb bone is thought to belong to a stegosaurian dinosaur, such as the recognisable stegosaurus, and dates to the Middle Jurassic period. Discovered on the Isle of Eigg,
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A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Cambridge, which is delivered through a “single jet of air”, could enter clinical trials by autumn. The proposed vaccine, named DIOS-CoVax2, would be administered through a patient’s skin, eliminating the use of needles and making it pain-free. Development of this vaccine has involved looking at genetic sequences
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