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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/ucl-ict062519.php
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Enhancing cancer treatment is a 'major priority' for the UK public, which also thinks that the NHS needs more resources to provide 'excellent cancer care,' finds a new national survey led by UCL.
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https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/public-sector/government-trends/2020/government-digital-identity.html
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Imagine logging into a government website the way you log into your bank account. A unique digital identity, increasing being adopted globally, can streamline citizens' and businesses' interactions with government.
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https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/public-sector/government-trends/2020/government-nudge-thinking.html
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Government is increasingly using nudge thinking—designing environments in ways to help humans make better decisions—to improve outcomes in areas ranging from tax compliance to retirement savings.
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https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/public-sector/government-trends/2020/predictive-analytics-in-government.html
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The idea that government should focus more on preventing problems than just reacting to them is not new. Today, however, advances in predictive analytics allow more governments to work toward preempting problems.
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https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/public-sector/government-trends/2020/introduction.html
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How is government adapting to the unprecedented changes reshaping our world? As it works toward becoming more integrated and intuitive, here are nine of the most transformative trends in government today.
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https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/public-sector/government-trends/2020/government-nudge-thinking.html
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Government is increasingly using nudge thinking—designing environments in ways to help humans make better decisions—to improve outcomes in areas ranging from tax compliance to retirement savings.
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https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/public-sector/government-trends/2020/ai-augmented-government.html
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The growing toolkit of artificial intelligence—from computer vision to machine learning—has the potential to enhance almost everything government does, spanning education, health care, and defense.
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https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/-discovery-of-a-holy-grail-with-the-invention-of-universal-computer-memory
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Information relating to Discovery of a “Holy Grail” with the invention of universal computer memory
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-19/magnetic-archives-at-risk-due-to-machine-becoming-obsolete/11222602
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With 130,000 hours of content still trapped on magnetic tapes, staff at the National Archives are looking everywhere for working machines — even eBay and Gumtree — so the tapes can be digitised before they disappear entirely.
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https://www.cicnews.com/2019/06/more-than-500000-jobs-went-unfilled-across-canada-in-first-three-months-of-2019-0612415.html#gs.hrrj4e
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The number of job vacancies in Canada rose again in the first three months of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, with increases reported in six provinces and the territory of Nunavut.
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https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/modular-construction-from-projects-to-products
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Shifting construction away from traditional sites and into factories could dramatically change the way we build. Will modular construction make a sustainable impact this time around?
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/clock-is-ticking-for-ratification-of-usmca-trade-deal-2019-06-18
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The most arduous hurdle for the new North American trade deal is in the United States House of Representatives.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/robotic-dishwasher-for-restaurants-taking-dirty-work-out-of-kitchen.html
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Restaurants have a hard time hiring and retaining dishwashers, but now there's a robot for that.
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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-navy-developing-robot-warships-fighting-china-62932
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The goal, according to a June 2019 report from Ronald O’Rourke, a naval expert with the Congressional Research Service, is to deploy a fleet that can spread out during wartime, absorb Chinese missile attacks then quickly strike back.
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https://www.cnet.com/news/election-hacking-has-never-been-cheaper-easier-or-more-profitable/
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Cybercrime could be a $6 trillion business by 2022. Emerging tech like AI might be the only way to one step ahead.
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https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-15/sixth-gen-fighters-already-drawing-board
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The newest generation is years away, but U.S. armed forces have a plan to continue modernizing.
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https://betakit.com/canadian-securities-administrators-considering-crypto-regulatory-regime-by-2022/
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The Canadian Securities Administrators said it wants to adapt current securities regulations to specifically address crypto-assets.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-autonomous-lidar/cheaper-sensors-could-speed-more-self-driving-cars-to-market-by-2022-idUSKCN1TD2MY
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The first heavily automated mass-market vehicles for consumers could go on sale as soon as 2022, if one or more vehicle manufacturers adopt a new sub-$500 lidar sensing package being developed by Silicon Valley startup Luminar.
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https://gizmodo.com/when-will-quantum-computers-outperform-regular-computer-1834651018
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Any day now, quantum computers will solve a problem too hard for a classical computer to take on. Or at least, that’s what we’ve been hoping. Scientists and companies are racing toward this computing milestone, dubbed quantum supremacy and seemingly just beyond our reach, and if you’ve been following the quantum computing story, you might wonder why we’re not there yet, given all the hype.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-to-ban-single-use-plastics-as-early-as-2021-source-1.5168386
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The Trudeau government will ban single-use plastics as early as 2021, CBC News has learned. Plastic straws, cotton swabs, drink stirrers, plates, cutlery and balloon sticks are just some of the single-use plastics that will be banned in Canada.
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https://www.inverse.com/article/56505-mars-city-architects-may-switch-glassy-skyscrapers-for-caves-to-survive
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"Think of it as if you only had mud to build with."