‘Alpha male’ AI world shuts out women: computing prof Hall

The AI sector is ‘totally male-dominated’, warns top computer scientist Wendy Hall (Ludovic MARIN) · Ludovic MARIN/AFP/AFP Artificial intelligence could change the world but the dearth of women in the booming sector will undermine pledges for inclusive technology, top computer scientist Wendy Hall told AFP on Friday. Hall, a professor …

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Why the Gorton & Denton by-election may be dirtiest campaign yet

Inside the Green Party’s ramshackle campaign headquarters in Gorton, the usual election paraphernalia shares space with a pointed display. Framed plumbing certificates belonging to the party’s candidate, Hannah Spencer, have been put up on the wall, a not-so-subtle rebuke to unfounded social media claims that the tradeswoman and local councillor …

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Andrew’s arrest is ‘the biggest scandal in royal history’ and ‘as critical as the institution could have to face’, commentators declare

Royal experts have reacted in shock after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was today arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.  The former Prince was taken into custody on his 66th birthday on Thursday following allegations that he shared confidential material with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein while serving as trade envoy.  A …

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