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Firefighter who tried to tackle racism in service doubts things can change for the better
Ubisoft and Riot are teaming up to tackle toxic online chat with AI, but big questions remain over how it’s going to work
Do you ever feel like multiplayer games would be better if other players were less abusive? Ubisoft and Riot Games are looking into training artificial intelligence to tackle bad behaviours within in-game chat, a research collaboration they’re calling Zero Harm In Comms. Ahead of their announcement today, I put some questions to Ubisoft La Forge’s executive director Yves Jacquier and Riot’s head of technology research Wesley Kerr to get some more insight on the joint project, and ask them exactly how their proposal will work.
Gender pay gap reporting alone will not tackle employment gaps, says Ibec
The organisation’s head of social policy said gender pay gap reporting should be seen as ‘a starting point rather than a destination’.
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Major cancer treatment shake-up as GPs to get extra powers to book cancer scans directly in bid to tackle disease early
GPS will get extra powers to book cancer scans directly under NHS plans to boost early diagnosis.
Tens of thousands of tumours should be caught earlier under the initiative.
The scheme should slash delays for the 67,000 sufferers a year who have just vague symptoms[/caption]
NHS England CEO Amanda Pritchard encourages the idea of early testing to catch cancers[/caption]
It should slash delays for the 67,000 sufferers a year who have vague symptoms such as tiredness or tummy aches.
They account for one in five cancers detected but GPs will no longer need to send them to a hospital specialist before ordering tests.
NHS England CEO Amanda Pritchard will tell an NHS conference today: “By sending patients straight to testing, we can catch and treat more cancers at an earlier stage.”
Health bosses say the programme will also free up hundreds of thousands of hospital appointments.
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Many non-urgent cases will be false alarms — but the NHS finds 67,000 out of 289,000 cancers this way each year.
Fast-tracking MRI, CT and ultrasound scans will cut waits times down to four weeks.
By 2028 the NHS wants to diagnose three quarters of cancers at stages one and two, before they have spread — clinics currently manage just over half.
Prof Martin Marshall from the Royal College of GPs, said: “It can be helpful for patients who might not meet the criteria for rapid referral and have vague symptoms that could be cancer.”
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Kruti Shrotri from Cancer Research UK, added: “Cancer that is diagnosed and treated at an early stage is more likely to be treated successfully, so we welcome this announcement.”
How Hugging Face and ServiceNow tackle code-generating LLM challenges
Andor Enlists 3 New Directors to Tackle Season 2
As the first season of Andor hurtles toward its season finale later this month, development for the Disney+ Star Wars series’ second season is already in the works.
Resident Evil 4 Producer on How the Remake Will Tackle QTEs, Inventory Management, and the Sequels
MPs and staff call for parliamentary authorities to urgently tackle abuse in Westminster
How manufacturing is evolving to tackle supply chain challenges
Deloitte’s Paul Wellener discusses the drive among manufacturers to become more resilient through digital transformation and their concerns around cybersecurity.
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