Day: September 5, 2024

‘Professional buck-passers’: why the excoriating Grenfell report was right to damn architects | Grenfell Tower inquiry

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Lying manufacturers, incompetent inspectors, muddled regulations, contemptuous landlords – the blame for the Grenfell Tower fire has been hurled in all directions, exposing a housing and construction industry that is rotten at every level. But, after seven years of waiting, yesterday’s inquiry report makes it very clear that there was one professional actor that bore … Read more

Cracking the code: Deploying an AI-enabled nursing workforce

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BOSTON – After putting artificial intelligence into systems where nurses are used to working, Mercy has been able to realize $52 million in retaining talent and engaging its workforce, a 20% improvement in nurses’ electronic health records experiences and a 17% increase in nurse efficiency, the health system’s Senior Vice President Betty Jo Rocchio said Thursday … Read more

Fashion month: everything you need to know ahead of New York, London, Paris and Milan | Fashion

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For many, September signals a return to packed lunches and sensible shoes. For the fashion industry, it heralds a four-week spectacle of shows, supermodels, Hollywood stars, street style and lots and lots of silly shoes. Yes, fashion month has rolled around yet again. The next month will showcase the luxury looks that will eventually trickle … Read more

How AI is transforming cybersecurity, on defense and offense

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Cybersecurity is complex enough without adding artificial intelligence technology into the mix. But chief information officers, chief information security officers and other IT and security leaders  have no choice but to deal with AI as it explodes across the healthcare landscape. But how? In this tenth and final installment of this series, which features the … Read more

Want justice for the victims of Grenfell? It’s now clearer than ever that public inquiries are not the answer | Simon Jenkins

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What is justice for Grenfell? After seven years of public inquiry we have a 1,700-page report and a cost of more than £200m. We have had investigations, books, plays and more than £100m spent on an ongoing police investigation. Yet so far we have no closure, no prosecutions and no convictions. The word ‘“justice” does … Read more

‘We were exhausted – mentally unwell’: Empire of the Sun on the downside of success – and rising again | Music

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“Things are good. I don’t think things in the Empire have ever been better. We’re in a thoroughly creative flow state right now. We’re on a vision quest of sorts,” says Nick Littlemore, his honeyed voice simultaneously intense and strangely laid-back. “Lord” Littlemore is calling from Hawaii, where he and “Emperor” Luke Steele are already … Read more