Productivity in the UK has been stagnating since the 2008 financial crisis, lagging behind many other comparable economies. Successive UK governments have tried to solve this puzzle but with little success so far. According to the Financial Times, lower productivity rates can be attributed to the country’s longstanding problems like low investment and skills gaps…
Amazon announced on July 21 it will build a satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Last year, the delivery giant announced the “largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history” for the launch of its 3,200 Project Kuiper broadband internet satellites. Amazon secured 77 heavy-lift rocket missions to deploy its satellite constellation, designed to…
How is artificial intelligence going to shake up gaming in the coming years? Will the technology make games more realistic, more exciting, more addictive or all of the above? AI has been in video games for decades. In Pacman, which landed on arcade machines in the 80s, AI was used to tell the ghosts how…
In today’s fast-paced world, workers often find themselves putting in long hours and sacrificing their personal lives for their jobs. This approach is not sustainable and can lead to physical exhaustion, burnout and mental health problems over time. To keep going at a steady pace instead of running yourself into the ground, it’s vital to…
There’s a new data point in the flex work debate. According to researchers at Microsoft (LinkedIn’s parent company), the average work day contains three “peaks” during which keyboard activity spikes: one each in the morning and afternoon, and a third around 10 p.m. The last shift is likely workers compensating for the 4-to-6-p.m. “dead zone,”…
A survey has highlighted the growing struggle that parents face with summer childcare in Britain, citing increasing costs and gaps in availability. The average cost for six weeks of holiday childcare has risen to £943 for each school-aged child, up 3% on 2022, according to the data from the Coram Family and Childcare survey. The…
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