Peter Chappell

3 weeks ago | parapolitika.gr | Peter Chappell

Το διαδίκτυο προκάλεσε την καταστροφή των βαρύτατων τόμων της Encyclopaedia Britannica, που πωλούνταν πόρτα-πόρτα σε μεσοαστούς γονείς τον περασμένο αιώνα. Ωστόσο, αφού εγκατέλειψε τις έντυπες εκδόσεις το 2012, έπειτα από 244 χρόνια, η εταιρεία αντιστέκεται τώρα στην τεχνητή νοημοσύνη - και ο διευθύνων σύμβουλός της πιστεύει ότι η εγκυκλοπαίδεια είναι πιο ακριβής από το ChatGPT.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Peter Chappell

BBC journalists and crew were held at gunpoint, tied up and strip-searched by the Israeli Defence Forces in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, one of the broadcaster’s journalists has claimed. The team of seven, which included Feras Kilani, BBC Arabic’s special correspondent, two Iraqi BBC staff, three Syrian freelancers and one BBC cameraman, were stopped while filming at a checkpoint in the city of Quneitra, inside a buffer zone between Israel and Syria, the BBC said.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Peter Chappell

Bethan James, daughter of the former England cricket star Steve James, may have survived if doctors had given her the correct treatment for sepsis, an inquest has been told. James, 21, died a day after she was admitted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in February 2020, where nurses said there was no bed for her, Pontypridd coroner’s court heard. An ambulance was called to her home when she fell ill while her father, a journalist, was covering a Six Nations rugby match in Dublin.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Peter Chappell

HM Revenue & Customs lost £47 million to an “organised crime” phishing breach of tax accounts in a fraud incident that has led to arrests, the Treasury committee has been told. Two senior civil servants from HMRC told MPs that 100,000 people have been contacted, or are in the process of being contacted, after their PAYE accounts were locked down after the incident, which started last year.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Peter Chappell

Kate and Gerry McCann worked hard to keep their family life private during the years of anguish after the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine 18 years ago. As the couple go through fresh turmoil while police search a new area in Portugal, it has emerged that their 20-year-old son is being tipped for Olympic glory after enjoying success in an open-water swimming competition in the Mediterranean.