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18Apr/23

Casey review: how the Met police needs to accept that it is institutionally racist and deal with failures

April 18, 2023CrimeAbuse, Angus Nurse, Bianca Williams, Bibaa Henry, Boris Johnson, Creative Commons, Discrimination, Human rights abuses, Humans, Institutional abuse, Institutional racism, Ken Livingstone, London, London boroughs, Louise Casey, Macpherson, Mark Rowley, Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Nicole Smallman, Racism, Sarah Everard, SHUTTERSTOCK, Social issues, United Kingdom, Wayne Couzensadmin

Angus Nurse, Nottingham Trent University

Louise Casey’s review of the standards of behaviour and internal culture at the Metropolitan police makes for uncomfortable reading. It was commissioned following the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, who was a serving Met officer at the time.

Casey highlights the prevalence of sexism and homophobia. Crucially, in considering police culture she draws different conclusions on the existence of institutional racism than the position taken in 2021 by Boris Johnson’s government on race.

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18Apr/23

ChatGPT: what the law says about who owns the copyright of AI-generated content

April 18, 2023LegalArticles, Artificial intelligence, Copyright, Copyright law, Creative Commons, Intellectual property law, Joe Sekhon, Law, Liu, Microsoft, Monopoly, Oleksandra Ozcan, Public domain, Public records, Sercan Ozcan, SHUTTERSTOCK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom copyright lawadmin

Sercan Ozcan, University of Portsmouth; Joe Sekhon, University of Portsmouth, and Oleksandra Ozcan, University of Portsmouth

The AI chatbot ChatGPT produces content that can appear to have been created by a human. There are many proposed uses for the technology, but its impressive capabilities raise important questions about ownership of the content.

UK legislation has a definition for computer-generated works. Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 they are “generated by computer in circumstances such that there is no human author of the work”. The law suggests content generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) can be protected by copyright. However, the original sources of answers generated by AI chatbots can be difficult to trace – and they might include copyrighted works.

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17Apr/23

How does the UK Government’s Data Protection and Digital Information Bill impact the economy?

April 17, 2023SecurityAnonymity, Articles, Bill, Data security, Economic growth, Information governance, Personal data, Personal life, Privacy, Social issues, United Kingdomadmin

April 17, 2023 /Technology/ —The UK Government’s Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPID Bill) is a piece of legislation that aims to reform the UK’s data protection framework. The Bill is currently being debated in Parliament, and it is expected to be passed into law in 2023.

The DPID Bill has the potential to have a significant impact on the UK economy. On the one hand, the Bill could lead to increased compliance costs for businesses. This is because the Bill introduces a number of new requirements for businesses that process personal data, such as the need to conduct data protection impact assessments and to appoint a data protection officer.
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17Apr/23

The reason violence has erupted in Sudan

April 17, 2023Conflict and War2018–19 Sudanese protests, Abdalla Hamdok, Africa, Countries, Federal republics, Geography of Africa, Least developed countries, Member states of the African Union, Member states of the United Nations, Military dictatorships, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, Transitional Military Council, United Kingdom, United Statesadmin

April 17, 2023 /World/ — Violence erupted in Sudan on April 11, 2023, when the country’s military, known as the Transitional Military Council (TMC), dissolved the Sovereign Council, the joint civilian-military body that had been governing the country since the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir in 2019. The TMC also detained several civilian leaders, including Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.

The violence has been met with widespread international condemnation, and the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have all imposed sanctions on the TMC. The African Union has also suspended Sudan from its activities.
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16Apr/23

How knowledge graphs can be used to represent semantic relationships

April 16, 2023InnovationFields of mathematics, Graph, Graph database, Graph theory, Information science, Knowledge representation, Line graph, London, Networks, Semantic network, Semantic Web, Semantic wiki, Semantics, United Kingdomadmin

April 16, 2023 /Technology/ — Knowledge graphs are a type of graph database that is used to represent knowledge about the real world. They are made up of nodes, which represent entities, and edges, which represent relationships between those entities. Knowledge graphs can be used to represent a wide variety of knowledge, including facts about people, places, things, and events.
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14Apr/23

CANTU BEAUTY CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, ANNOUNCING FOURTH YEAR OF PARTNERSHIP WITH WOMEN EMPOWERING NATIONS TO CULTIVATE FEMALE LEADERSHIP

April 14, 2023FashionCantu, France, Germany, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, United Kingdom, United Statesadmin

Cantu Beauty, an award-winning textured hair care brand, once again joins Women Empowering Nations (WEN) to host the 2023 Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Global Cohort: an immersive, high impact leadership coaching experience beginning this month through July 2023 for women of color across the globe. This year’s cohort builds on the 2022 program and received applications from more than 2,500 young women from seven countries — the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, France, Germany, Ghana and Nigeria. This year’s investment will eclipse $1 million in total by Cantu toward community efforts across programs and partners including Women Empowering Nations. Continue reading

14Apr/23

When what you type doesn’t mean the same thing to the (older) person you’re texting or tweeting

April 14, 2023InternetCreative Commons, Culture, Daniel Bürkle, David Cameron, Full stop, Grace Seger, Gretchen McColloch, Humanities, Humour, Internet slang, Irony, Linguistics, Martineau, McCulloch, Online chat, Paris, Paris Martineau, Punctuation, Rebekah Brooks, Sarcasm, SMS language, Typography, United Kingdomadmin

Daniel Bürkle, University of Central Lancashire

On a day-to-day level, the way we interact with the people around us is shaped by our expectations, which are rooted in our experience. Most adults experience more regular and intensive contact with adults of roughly the same age as them. It is no surprise then – as a cursory glance at any multigenerational Twitter row over the past decade clearly demonstrates – that our expectations tend to be skewed towards how our own age group expresses themselves.

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11Apr/23

‘It’s like you’re a criminal, but I am not a criminal.’ First-hand accounts of the trauma of being stuck in the UK asylum system

April 11, 2023PoliticsAngela, Anne Burghgraef, Asylum seeker, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Australia, Creative Commons, Cultural globalization, Democratic Republic of Congo, Demography, Dostoevsky, Ebele, Edward, Edward Crawford, European migrant crisis, Farah, Forced migration, George, Gloria, Guinea, Haram, Imani, Immigration, Immigration detention, International law, Iran, Joy, Lagos, Leeds, Leon, Mariama, Nigeria, Pete Maclaine, Peter William Walsh, Refugee, Refugees, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Steve Taylor, United Kingdom, Unity, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Zimbabweadmin

Steve Taylor, Leeds Beckett University

Warning: this story contains graphic descriptions of violence. Pseudonyms are used to protect the interviewees’ identities.

Angela had already been in the UK as an asylum seeker for nine years and four months when we interviewed her. She was still in a state of limbo, unsure whether asylum would be granted, and her story was disturbing to hear.

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10Apr/23

Good Friday Agreement: the early 1990s back-channel between the IRA and British government that made peace possible

April 10, 2023PoliticsBill Clinton, Brendan Duddy, British MPs, Creative Commons, Derry, George Mitchell, Harold Wilson, Ireland, Irish hunger strike, Irish Republican Army, Irish republicanism, Irish republicans, John Chilcot, John Major, London, Lynch, Martin McGuinness, Members of the Northern Ireland Forum, Niall Dochartaigh, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Northern Ireland, O'Doherty family, Patrick Mayhew, Robert McLaren, Sinn Féin, United Kingdom, United States, William Whitelawadmin

Niall Ó Dochartaigh, University of Galway

In February 1990, in the midst of the Troubles, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness publicly invited the British government to reopen a back-channel used during previous phases of contact with the IRA in the 1970s and during the 1981 hunger strike.

If [the British government] think there is something to be lost by stating publicly how flexible they would be, or how imaginative, we are saying they should tell us privately … there is an avenue which they are aware of whereby they can make what imaginative steps they are thinking about known to the Republican movement.

It was a crucial early step on the road to the Good Friday Agreement.

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07Apr/23

TCL PARTNERS WITH ARSENAL TO ENHANCE CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA AND EUROPE

April 7, 2023FootballArsenal F.C., ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB, Computer languages, Cross-platform software, Programming languages, Tcl, United Kingdomadmin

TCL, a Global top 2 TV brand, has announced a new partnership with Arsenal Football Club. The collaboration will give Arsenal supporters in the UK, Middle East and Africa more opportunities to engage with the club, while also increasing TCL’s expanding footprint in sport by becoming the club’s Official Regional Consumer Electronics Partner in those markets.

With a mission to Inspire Greatness, TCL understands the impact sport has on people around the world and the new partnership aims to engage supporters around their common passion for football. Continue reading

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