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Chris Whitty calls for ‘caution’ over promising Covid hospitalisation data in South Africa

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Professor Chris Whitty today called for ‘serious caution’ over a raft of promising data which suggests Omicron may cause milder disease. 

Fewer Covid-infected patients are being admitted to hospital wards in South Africa now compared to previous waves, sparking hopes that the strain is less lethal than the rivals it has outcompeted.  

But England’s chief medical officer told a Downing Street press briefing that the figures were to be expected, simply because the country had higher levels of immunity going

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Boris insists booster roll-out going FASTER than planned but data shows barely any improvement

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Boris Johnson today insisted that Britain’s turbocharged Covid booster campaign is going faster than planned, despite official data showing the country is still nowhere near meeting its 500,000-a-day target.

The rollout appears to be stalling, despite No10 pinning its hopes of warding off the the impending Omicron wave on the programme.   

The Prime Minister last week promised to put the rollout on ‘steroids’ and ramp up the number of third doses delivered half a million, as well as open up

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Globaler Marktausblick für Blockchain Distributed Ledger bis 2026 mit Profilen von Hauptakteuren, darunter Accenture, AWS, Huawei Technologies, Intel, IBM, iXLedger, NTT DATA Corp und Visa – ResearchAndMarkets.com

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DUBLIN–(GESCHÄFTSDRAHT)–Der Bericht „Markt für Blockchain-Distributed-Ledger: Globale Branchentrends, Anteil, Größe, Wachstum, Chancen und Prognose 2021-2026“ wurde hinzugefügt ResearchAndMarkets.com anbieten.

Der globale Markt für Blockchain-Distributed-Ledger verzeichnete im Zeitraum 2015-2020 ein robustes Wachstum. Mit Blick auf die Zukunft wird der Markt voraussichtlich zwischen 2021 und 2026 mit einer CAGR von 54 % wachsen.

Die schnelle Digitalisierung der Industrien auf der ganzen Welt ist einer der Schlüsselfaktoren für positive Aussichten für das Marktwachstum. Darüber hinaus treibt die steigende Nachfrage nach fortschrittlichen technologischen

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DSA general approach, DMA compromise, data retention – EURACTIV.com

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Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. 

 

“Based on the discussions at Working Party level, a strong and general support among the Member States has been identified regarding the level of ambition of the proposal, its overall objectives and the need for its swift adoption”

-Accompanying note to the General Approach to the Digital Services Act (DSA)

 

Story of the week: The 27 EU

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Cleo Smith search and rescue final two hours revealed as mobile data played crucial part

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Detectives used mobile data to track down the alleged abductor of Cleo Smith as the final two hours of the search and rescue for the four-year-old are revealed. 

Sources close to the investigation claim the mobile phone data was crucial in helping police to identify Terence Darrell Kelly, 36, as a prime suspect. 

‘His phone was allegedly in the area as part of the data collection,’ a source told The West Australian. ‘That is part of the information that led

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DSA zentralisiert, Data Act Leak, politische Chips, digitale Fußabdrücke – EURACTIV.com

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“Wir werden darauf achten, nicht die Extrameile zu gehen, um die Meinungsfreiheit einzuschränken.”

-Věra Jourová, Vizepräsidentin der Europäischen Kommission für Werte und Transparenz

Geschichte der Woche: Die Durchsetzung des Gesetzes über digitale Dienste wird bei der Europäischen Kommission zentralisiert, was sehr große Online-Plattformen (VLOPs im Brüsseler Jargon) betrifft. Dies ist die wichtigste Erkenntnis aus dem jüngsten

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Fewer than 20% of 12-15 year olds in England have had their first Covid vaccine, data shows

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England’s Covid vaccine drive for children is going even slower than thought, according to official data that has prompted calls for the NHS to speed up the roll out over fears it could leave No10 with no option but to resort to Plan B.

Just 19.3 per cent of 12 to 15 year olds have come forward for their first jab, figures on the Government dashboard show, despite the whole group being eligible since September 20.

The children’s roll out

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The Ultimate Google Ads Pacing Dashboard (Free Data Studio Template)

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As paid search managers, sometimes we don’t have all the tools we need to do our job. Even simple tasks like Google Ads pacing can be much harder than they should be.

That’s because you can’t enter your budget or conversion targets directly into the platform.

Without that basic context of goals vs. actuals, it becomes hard to know the right action to take.

Most third-party software and DIY pacing sheets attempting to solve this problem just aren’t useful to

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Blockchain, Big Data wird voraussichtlich die Zukunft der Technologie in der privaten Fondsbranche vorantreiben

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Globale Umfrage unter Managern von privaten Kapitalfonds erzielt in den USA die höchste Punktzahl bei der Nutzung und dem Verständnis von Blockchain, während Europa bei der Nutzung von Big Data am besten abschneidet

Veröffentlicht: 26. Oktober 2021 um 6:00 Uhr CDT|Aktualisiert: Vor 44 Minuten

LONDON, 26. Okt. 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Heute Intertrust NV (“Intertrust Group” oder “Unternehmen”) [Euronext: INTER], ein weltweit führender Anbieter von spezialisierten Verwaltungsdienstleistungen für Kunden in über 30 Ländern, veröffentlichte die Ergebnisse einer globalen

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Facebook did little to moderate posts in the world’s most violent countries – POLITICO

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In late 2020, Facebook researchers came to a sobering conclusion. The company’s efforts to curb hate speech in the Arabic world were not working.

In a 59-page memo circulated internally just before New Year’s Eve, engineers detailed the grim numbers.

Only 6 percent of Arabic-language hate content was detected on Instagram before it made its way onto the photo-sharing platform owned by Facebook. That compared with a 40 percent takedown rate on Facebook.

Ads attacking women and the LGBTQ community

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