{n}.bora’s Top Articles: 17th October

This week’s articles look at the IMFs prediction for the UK’s economy, new laws in California regarding personal data, and the EU’s space age technology.

As ever, {n}.bora are able to provide advice and support on any of the topics raised.

Business:

This BBC News article reports that the IMF has defended it assessment of the UK economy, predicting it will have the lowest performance out of all of the G7:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67056069?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Technology:

California has signed in a law that allows individuals to force data brokers to delete data relating to them. This Guardian article provides more information:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/10/california-delete-act-signed-newsom

Advice:

As well as endorsing their own product, this blog from IBM looks at how technology can be used to keep up with changing market conditions:
https://www.ibm.com/blog/responding-in-real-time-to-changing-market-dynamics/

AI:

This Readwrite article looks at how AI is being taught human emotions and what the implications of this may be:
https://readwrite.com/artificial-intelligence-being-trained-to-show-empathy/

Something Great:

This article from the Next Web looks at some of the new space-age technology coming out of the EU:
https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-space-mission-tech-orbit-testing

First published by {n}.bora October 17, 2023

Image credit: Photo by Ibrahim Boran on Unsplash

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