27Mar/23

Vuzix Smart Glasses Support New Partnership Designed to Solve Global Health Workforce Shortages

March 27, 2023HealthcareAccessibility, Articles, Augmented reality, Display technology, Educational technology, Human–computer interaction, Mixed reality, Multimodal interaction, Smartglasses, Technology, United Kingdom, Vuzix, VUZIX CORPORATION, Wearable computersadmin

Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, today announced that its smart glasses have been selected to support a new partnership between med-tech specialist Global Health Education Group (“GHEG”) and the University of Leeds, one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK. GHEG has developed an online learning tool designed to significantly increase the accessibility, scale and quality of clinical training opportunities available to healthcare students. Continue reading

27Mar/23

How Black children in England’s schools are made to feel like the way they speak is wrong

March 27, 2023SocialAmanda Spielman, Articles, Benjamin Zephaniah, Creative Commons, Critical theory, Derron Wallace, Discrimination, Human behavior, Humans, Ian Cushing, Institutional racism, Joy, London, Michael Gove, Post-structuralism, Racism, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, SHUTTERSTOCK, Social inequality, Social privilege, Sociolinguistics, United Kingdom, Word gapadmin

Ian Cushing, Edge Hill University

Whiteness is an invention of the modern, colonial age. It refers to the racialisation of white people and the disproportionate privilege – social, linguistic, economic, political – that comes with this. Crucially, as an invention, whiteness is not innate – it is taught.

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25Mar/23

This Week in Energy News: 10 Stories You Need to See

March 25, 2023BusinessArticles, Energy industry, News, PR Newswire, Press release, Sourceadmin

With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the energy and natural resources industry stay on top of the week’s most newsworthy and popular releases, here’s a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn’t be missed. Continue reading

24Mar/23

Music licensing platform Tribe of Noise partners with Pex to identify more licensing deals for musicians

March 24, 2023MusicAlphabet Inc., Bytedance, Digital media, Facebook, Social networking services, Software, TikTok, Tribe of Noise, Video software, World Wide Web, YouTubeadmin

Through Pex’s digital rights management solution and advanced identification technology, Tribe of Noise will be able to track music usage across more than 20 digital platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. This will enable Tribe of Noise to identify potential licensing opportunities for its artists and provide them with the necessary tools to monetize their music. Continue reading

24Mar/23

Women only gained access to the London Stock Exchange in 1973 – why did it take so long?

March 24, 2023FinanceAberdeen, Amy Elizabeth Bell, Australian Securities Exchange, Bradford, Budapest Stock Exchange, Creative Commons, Economy of London, Edith Midgley, Finance, Financial markets, Glasgow, Huddersfield, James Taylor, Julia Hoggett, London, London Stock Exchange, Manchester, Money, Muriel Bailey, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stock, Stock exchange, Stock market, THE BANK OF ENGLAND, Thomas Mortimer, United Kingdom, United States, Victoria Woodhulladmin

James Taylor, Lancaster University

On March 26 1973, the London Stock Exchange admitted its first female members. This followed years of resistance, with London trailing behind other smaller exchanges around the UK.

That women had been excluded for so long was not only due to institutional misogyny. Research has shown how finance was imagined in sexist terms for centuries. And despite the extraordinary accomplishments of prominent female figures over the past 50 years, these biased beliefs persist to this day.

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24Mar/23

OpenAI: Ethics and intelligence

March 24, 2023InnovationAdam Smith Tech, Articles, Artificial intelligence, Bing, Elon Musk, Existential risk from artificial general intelligence, France, Issy-les-Moulineaux, OpenAI, Paris, Sam Altman, Technologyadmin

By Adam Smith | Tech correspondent

OpenAI rolled out GPT-4 last week, the new artificial intelligence service that powers ChatGPT.

The main addition to the new model is that it can now “understand” images – writing captions and descriptions, as well as explaining jokes behind memes – and write computer code. Continue reading →

23Mar/23

The Princeton Review’s 2023 Rankings of Top Ugrad & Grad Schools for Game Design Are Now Out

March 23, 2023GamesCollege and university rankings, Colonial colleges, Drexel University, Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, QS World University Rankings, V-12 Navy College Training Programadmin

The Princeton Review® — known for its education services and school rankings in dozens of categories — today released its 14th annual rankings of undergraduate and graduate schools with the best programs in game design studies. Continue reading

23Mar/23

Management lessons from Ted Lasso: the importance of clear goals and positive feedback

March 23, 2023BusinessChidiebere Ogbonnaya, Chris Brown, Computer languages, Creative Commons, Jamie Tart, Lasso, Motivation, Programming languages, Regression analysis, Sam Obisanya, Social groups, Team, Ted Lasso, Well-beingadmin

Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, University of Kent

Apple TV’s wildly successful comedy, Ted Lasso, has returned for a third series. The show’s well-meaning, if bumbling, American coach of fictional English football team AFC Richmond is known for his motivational speeches. Take this example from the first series:

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22Mar/23

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023

March 22, 2023TechnologyCollege and university rankings, Education, QS, QS World University Rankings, Quacquarelli Symonds, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankingsadmin

Global higher education analyst QS Quacquarelli Symonds has released the thirteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, revealing the top universities in 54 academic disciplines, including three brand-new additions: Data Science, Marketing, and History of Art. Continue reading

22Mar/23

Casey review: key steps the Met police must take to address its institutional racism and sexism

March 22, 2023CrimeAnti-corporate activism, Articles, Baroness Casey, Civil rights and liberties, Creative Commons, David Carrick, Dissent, Freedom of expression, Freedom of speech, John Fox, Law enforcement in the United Kingdom, London, Louise Casey, Mark Rowley, Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Police, Prevention, Sarah Everard, Stephen Lawrence, United Kingdom, Wales, Wayne Couzens, Whistleblower, William MacPherson, Workplace bullyingadmin

John Fox, University of Portsmouth

Baroness Louise Casey has found that London’s Metropolitan police force is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. We heard similar 24 years ago when, after the incompetent investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Sir William MacPherson reported that the Met was institutionally racist.

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