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Technology can help the health and care system clear the care backlog stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic, but NHS England needs to produce a roadmap to enable that to happen and address major issues relating to IT, a report has found.

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"Helping our SMEs to adopt such core technologies is going to be vitally important if we are to fulfil the vision of ‘Global Britain’ and lofty aims such as making the UK a “Science Super Power.”

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It can be very tough farming a smallholding in South Africa. People have to deal with crime, including robberies and farm workers being attacked, and struggle to get access to fertile land and water.

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Research by global mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat has revealed the increasing importance of internet of things (IoT) in industrial applications, predicting that investment in IoT is set to overtake cloud computing, next generation security, big data analytics and other digital transformation technologies in the near future.

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More than 70% of executives say sustainability is a top-10 priority for their companies. Two-thirds of consumers will pay more for brands that commit to sustainability. And more than 70% of people prefer to work for a company that has a strong green footprint over one that doesn’t.

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When people talk about a lack of diversity in technology, age discrimination is not the first issue to come to mind, but it’s one that is prolific across the UK’s tech sector.

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Earlier this month, during a presentation at London Tech Week, Mario Gruber, a research fellow at King’s College London, discussed the  productivity gap that exists between those companies that are able to take advantage of digital technologies and those that lag behind.

While technology is regarded as a great enabler for smaller organisations, helping them to scale up and reach a wide customer base very quickly, many fail to reap the benefits that IT and advanced digital technologies can offer.

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Cloud-native network software provider teams with digital business and IT services provider, aiming to meet the needs of operators around the world as they build or transition to open and virtualised 5G networks.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be the inventor of new patents, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled.

Patents assign the ownership of a new invention to its creator.

At its core, the argument is about whether a law written for human inventors can be applied to machines.

The appeal court ruled against Stephen Thaler, creator of a system called Dabus, who took a case against the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) which refused patents to his AI.

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A financial technology firm has said recruiting "BAME trailblazers" helps to increase innovation in the sector.

Seccl in Bath said it had increased its number of paid summer internships from three to seven to encourage the next generation of technology leaders.

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