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Will the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium leave the businesses on the high street behind?

Will the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium leave the businesses on the high street behind?

NS Business — The new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium promises to bring economic prosperity to a deprived area of North London - but there are concerns it could leave the small shops and pubs on the local high street behind
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How to become a more emotionally engaged leader

How to become a more emotionally engaged leader

Director magazine — It took a shocking personal tragedy - and the empathic response of his then employer - for Gian Power to realise the potential of emotional engagement as a motivational tool. The entrepreneur and public speaker explains how sharing your feelings at work can empower others to give more of themselves Showing emotion in the workplace can be a challenge for many people.
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'Take a panoramic approach to diversity' - leadership lessons from Rupal Kantaria

'Take a panoramic approach to diversity' - leadership lessons from Rupal Kantaria

Director magazine — The director at management consultancy Oliver Wyman has spent most of her career giving businesses strategic advice. She reflects on the principles she has learnt along the way, including the importance of inclusivity in British businesses after Brexit - and the idea that 'busy is the new stupid' Dynamic entrepreneurs can still have an amazing quality of life.
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How Viagra inventor's medtech start-up uses AI to cure rare diseases

How Viagra inventor's medtech start-up uses AI to cure rare diseases

NS Business — Healx has raised $56m in Series B funding to aid its AI-powered drug discovery mission. NS Business caught up with co-founder Dr Tim Guilliams in November 2018, with his comments reproduced here There are 350 million people across the world living with 7,000 illnesses most of us have never heard of but 95% of them don't have a treatment.
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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty says trust is the 'defining issue of our time'

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty says trust is the 'defining issue of our time'

NS Business — CEO Rometty believes "trust" is one reason IBM has continued to thrive for more than a century - and she claims more businesses should follow its lead by writing down a clear set of principles to guide them through uncharted times to come Security breaches putting public data at risk and fears that technology is feeding inequality have led to an urgent call for the digital industry to change the way it works if it hopes to retain the trust of both workforce and consumer.
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Why mind-reading technology is the latest Silicon Valley trend

Why mind-reading technology is the latest Silicon Valley trend

NS Business — As Silicon Valley boosts investment in mind-reading technology, should we be concerned about the new trend or welcome the possibilities it could bring? Two of the best-known tech trendsetters in Silicon Valley are turning their attention to a new and slightly less artificial form of intelligence, as the race for mind-reading technology gets underway.
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Senate hearing: Twitter and Facebook agree that people should have control of their data - NS Tec...

Senate hearing: Twitter and Facebook agree that people should have control of their data - NS Tec...

New Statesman — Senior executives from Twitter and Facebook appeared before a Senate select committee on Wednesday (5 Sept) and were questioned on issues of how to prevent election interference and data ownership. When asked whether users should have the right to control what happens to their data, both replied with a definite "yes".
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Driverless cars could become a prime target for hackers, top researcher warns - NS Tech

Driverless cars could become a prime target for hackers, top researcher warns - NS Tech

New Statesman — A top security researcher has warned that as objects become more connected through the internet of things, security considerations should be paramount in order to avoid real-world consequences. Speaking after Cloudsec 2018, Rik Ferguson vice president of security research at Trend Micro, told NS Tech: "If we're not engineering security in at the base level then we're not only doing ourselves a disservice, we're setting ourselves up for a massive failure.
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Video game developer Rockstar avoided UK corporation tax for 10 years

Video game developer Rockstar avoided UK corporation tax for 10 years

NS Business — A new report asks whether the maker of Grand Theft Auto is pulling a heist on the UK taxpayer, as the video game developer claims £42m in tax credits Rockstar North, the video game developer behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, has allegedly paid nothing in corporation tax over the past decade.
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Photobox CEO Jody Ford speaks out after Moonpig owner plans 42 job losses

Photobox CEO Jody Ford speaks out after Moonpig owner plans 42 job losses

NS Business — Photobox Group and Moonpig will soon split into two separate businesses, with Jody Ford moving into a new role The boss of personalised gift company Photobox Group has shed more light on the company's split from online card retailer Moonpig - with 42 potential job losses on the horizon.
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This firm embraced neurodiversity in the workplace and now beats IBM

This firm embraced neurodiversity in the workplace and now beats IBM

Compelo.com — Ultra Testing founder Rajesh Anandan claims that having 75% of staff on the autistic spectrum gives the start-up a competitive advantage in the world of software testing Subscribe to our email newsletter As many as 85% of college graduates in the US that are affected by autism are unemployed - for many employers, neurodiversity in the workplace is not yet part of their vocabulary.
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Stories of the harsh working conditions in the video game industry

Stories of the harsh working conditions in the video game industry

Compelo.com — For many people, the chance to make PS4 and Xbox games is a dream job - but the reality of working conditions in the video game industry can be six-day working weeks, 24-hour shifts and unrelenting stress.
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Could an app replace your GP?

Could an app replace your GP?

New Statesman — Digital healthcare is a fast-growing market, predicted to grow to £2.9bn in the UK by the end of 2018. Tens of thousands of health apps are available on Apple's App Store and Google Play, and one of the most prominent, with more than 14,000 reviews, is Babylon Health.
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MIA may think she's a "terrible pop star" but it's her causes that have driven her art

MIA may think she's a "terrible pop star" but it's her causes that have driven her art

New Statesman — "I'm a terrible pop star," says MIA after the premier of a new documentary about her life. "I'm sorry for that... I should've been getting different colour hair every week." To many the view of a "perfect pop star" is someone who is uncontroversial, shies away from political topics and leads a happy, idealistic life.
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Mercury Prize favourites Sons of Kemet: "We are surrounded by the rise of fascism"

Mercury Prize favourites Sons of Kemet: "We are surrounded by the rise of fascism"

New Statesman — Sons of Kemet are one of the surprise favourites for this year's Mercury Prize Awards, with Odds Checker putting them at 7/2 at the time of writing. It's a surprise, not because of the quality of their music, but its genre.
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Nearly 30 journalists claiming £250,000 in redundancy and notice payments after closure of View F...

Nearly 30 journalists claiming £250,000 in redundancy and notice payments after closure of View F...

Press Gazette — Journalists who worked across a series of West Country newspapers, which closed in January, claim they are still owed thousands in redundancy money and payments into their pension funds. View From newspapers, which was based in Lyme Regis, Dorset, was closed on 4 January due to "falling revenues" according to former owner Peter Masters, also ...
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Luxury magazine publisher Runwild Media goes into administration after 13 years with six magazine...

Luxury magazine publisher Runwild Media goes into administration after 13 years with six magazine...

Press Gazette — Luxury lifestyle magazine publisher Runwild Media Group has gone into administration, closing six out of seven of its London-based monthly titles. Runwild Media Group managing director Eren Ellwood told Press Gazette declining sales and advertising revenues were behind the closure. Although he would not confirm exactly how many staff are facing redundancy as a result, ...
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Former Phnom Penh Post journalist describes state of press freedom in Cambodia as 'dire' - Press ...

Former Phnom Penh Post journalist describes state of press freedom in Cambodia as 'dire' - Press ...

Press Gazette — The acquisition of the Phnom Penh Post by a Malaysian businessman made the newsroom "apprehensive" and "concerned" according to one of the paper's former journalists, Erin Handley. "There were fears for years that we'd be sold to someone politically well-connected to neutralise us, and we weren't sure if the recent sale was an attempt to ...
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Interview with new Daily Express editor Gary Jones: 'I don't want the paper to be offensive to an...

Interview with new Daily Express editor Gary Jones: 'I don't want the paper to be offensive to an...

Press Gazette — New editor of the Daily Express, Gary Jones, has said he "doesn't want the paper to be offensive to anybody" as he settles in at the title having made some obvious front page changes. Jones took over the reigns from Hugh Whittow on 2 March following Trinity Mirror's acquisition of Express Newspapers from Northern & Shell the ...
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Bomber disguised as cameraman kills nine journalists while BBC reporter shot dead in day of viole...

Bomber disguised as cameraman kills nine journalists while BBC reporter shot dead in day of viole...

Press Gazette — A twin suicide attack in Afghani capital Kabul has killed 25 people including up to nine journalists, with one bomber having disguised himself as a press cameraman before detonating a bomb among reporters. In a separate incident in Afghanistan this morning, BBC Afghan reporter Ahmed Shah was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the country's ...
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Why young Labour fans are loving the Corbyn T-shirt -

Why young Labour fans are loving the Corbyn T-shirt -

shef.ac.uk — You may have spotted it pop up on your Instagram feed, at Glasto, or maybe at a Labour rally. Now the Jeremy Corbyn bootleg tee is set to make history by going on display at the V & A.
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Mogg-mania: How Jacob Rees-Mogg has become the Tories' social media star -

Mogg-mania: How Jacob Rees-Mogg has become the Tories' social media star -

shef.ac.uk — A fever is quickly spreading its way across British politics; its name? Moggmentum. The new most meme-able politician has a double-barrelled surname, a child named Sixtus and a penchant for dressing completely in tweed - but why has Jacob Rees-Mogg become the new poster boy for the Conservative party?
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Music and Politics: A perfect harmony? -

Music and Politics: A perfect harmony? -

shef.ac.uk — This year we've seen Jeremy Corbyn warm up the crowd at Glastonbury, Bastille ridicule Theresa May and there were even suggestions of a Tory music festival. Does the sight of musicians banging on about politics make you cringe or is it a good way to get more young people clued up?
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Ten years on, Panda Bear's solo effort remains as vital as ever - GIGsoup

Ten years on, Panda Bear's solo effort remains as vital as ever - GIGsoup

GIGsoup — The artwork for 'Person Pitch' is immediately eye-catching. A collage of images all cobbled together: a lama, tiger, sea lion, panda and assortment of other exotic animals are seen sharing a hot tub with a group of children. The resulting scene seems both fantastical and plausible at the same time - it is a nostalgic ...
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