Guy Adams

4 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Guy Adams |Ryan Hooper

They are the bureaucrats charged with protecting Britain's natural environment and those who toil away on it. Yet while hard-pressed farmers face an uncertain time thanks to Labour's inheritance tax plans, staff at three rural-focused quangos have been logging in to work from the other side of the world. An investigation by the Daily Mail has discovered taxpayer-funded staff at Natural England, NatureScot and the Rural Payments Agency have worked from Asia, North America and even Australia.

4 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Guy Adams

On a parcel of Berkshire commuter belt surrounded by tall walls, impenetrable hedges and locked security gates, a local businessman is building his dream home. And money appears to be no object. The project involves not one, but two existing McMansions, plus a couple of fields and a small area of woodland. They are being amalgamated into a vast domestic mega-compound. A small army of contractors has spent months building state-of-the-art extensions, laying turf and installing statues and fountains.

4 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Eve Buckland |Guy Adams

Gene Hackman's secret fistfight in Los Angeles - along with the star's hilariously petty response - has been revealed three months after his shock death at 95. The double Oscar winner, who passed away in February alongside wife Betsy Arakawa at their Santa Fe home, was known for his pugnacious temperament, and hit back in spectacular fashion when he was harassed by a rude LA driver.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Guy Adams

The Criminal Cases Review Commission operates from a ten-storey office block overlooking the gleaming, space-age facade of New Street station in central Birmingham. It was opened in July 2022 by then government ‘efficiency’ minister Jacob Rees-Mogg under what he called ‘plans to create a leaner and more efficient public estate’ by relocating civil servants from London to the regions.

1 month ago | dataversity.net | Guy Adams

Data products are proliferating in the enterprise, and the good news is that users are consuming data products at an accelerated rate, whether it’s an AI model, a BI interface, or an embedded dashboard on a website. The bad news is that too many data engineering teams still rely on manual methods to keep these data products running, which inhibits growth and the ability to meet business objectives. Luckily, the era of automated DataOps has arrived.