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The NHS is “broken” after a decade-long funding squeeze and it’s going to have to be changed to fix it. That is the message coming loud and clear from the Labour government as it insists it must do more than make the NHS work a bit better…

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to “reimagine” the NHS but questions remain as to what form it will take when he’s finished with it. Ministers are keen on suggestions that will “shift the NHS away from late diagnosis and treatment to a model…

Twenty years ago, MySpace and Facebook ushered in an inspired age of social media. Today, the sticky parables of online life are inescapable: Connection is a convenience as much as it is a curse. A lot’s changed since those early years. In…

Medical leaders are warning the NHS does not have capacity to expand rollout of “life changing” weight loss jabs. Health Secretary Wes Streeting had announced unemployed people will be given weight-loss jabs under Government to tackle…

Matthew Sag, a distinguished professor at Emory University who researches copyright and artificial intelligence, concurs. Even if a user creates a bot intentionally designed to cause emotional distress, the tech platform likely can’t be…

Comics are due for a reboot and the old guard knows it. DC Entertainment, the elder statesman of the business, has been trying everything to get young eyes on its familiar characters, from Monday’s surprise announcement of DC Go! webcomics,…

Kate Ruane, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s free expression project, says most major technology platforms now have policies prohibiting nonconsensual distribution of intimate images, with many of the biggest agreeing…

German innovation is not limited to the country’s capital. In fact, some of this year’s most prolific startups are based hundreds of miles away. The AI startup Alpha Alpha hails from Heidelberg. Helsing, which sells AI to Europe’s…

Why is Stockholm, a capital city with a population less than one million, home to global brands such as Skype, Spotify, Klarna and Minecraft? “I think it has to do with the Swedish creed,” says Ben Eliass, CEO of bodycare brand Estrid.…

In the past two years the French capital has been in the throes of AI fever and has launched some of Europe’s most talked-about startups, including Mistral, which is currently valued at $6.2 billion (£4.7 billion). That’s partly down to the…