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How will gig companies tackle harassment as more women adopt delivery roles?
What’s happening? Draft legislation recently published by the European Commission, would require companies in the EU employing gig economy workers to prove ...
Fred Fullerton
December 17, 2021
Can a new independent institute improve the ethics of AI?
What’s happening? Former Google AI researcher Timnit Gebru is launching an independent AI institute to explore how the technology can ...
Sara Trett
December 10, 2021
Facebook keeps bungling stamping out hate speech – why?
What’s happening? Facebook executives rejected a recommendation from internal researchers to overhaul its content moderation software over concerns that it could ...
Sara Trett
December 3, 2021
Inclusion is essential when designing and building technology
What’s happening? Germany company Solvemate has updated its customer service automation platform with features to improve accessibility for people with hearing, sight, visual ...
Fred Fullerton
November 26, 2021
Making inroads to address ‘loss and damage’
What’s happening? The Scottish government will partner with the Climate Resilience Fund to address loss and damage to vulnerable nations caused ...
Katie Chan
November 19, 2021
What does Indigenous representation look like at COP26?
Indigenous people, recognised as a formal constituency in 2001, were among two-thirds of civil society groups that did not secure ...
Sara Trett
November 12, 2021
What’s the use of drug repurposing?
What's happening? Drugs commonly used to treat hypertension and inflammation may also be beneficial for Alzheimer's, a paper in Genome Medicine ...
Nicola Watts
November 5, 2021
Big companies push law firms to do better on diversity
What’s happening? Global companies – including Novartis, Facebook and HP – are pressuring the US and UK-based legal firms they work ...
Sara Trett
October 22, 2021