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The emergency agreement, announced this afternoon and only for the NHS in England, adds around 8,000 hospital beds, nearly 1,200 more ventilators, more than 10,000 nurses, 700 doctors and 8,000 other clinical staff. Private sector providers said all facilities would be provided at cost price under the deal. The NHS said it would continue to …

Mecklenburg County is expanding pre-K to get 4-year-olds ready for kindergarten – but what about getting younger children ready for pre-K? A national program that’s moving into Charlotte, does just that.  Nerys Centeno is one of the local pioneers. On a recent February afternoon, she arrived at a home in Charlotte’s Sugar Creek neighborhood to visit …

Technology is useless unless it fits into smart business strategy. Here are the top four books to … [+] help. Getty Technological innovation is nothing unless businesses know how to apply it to drive customer satisfaction and profitability. Here are the books to help you understand how to use big data, create useful artificial intelligence …

Oliver Letwin’s strange and somewhat alarming new book begins at midnight on Thursday 31 December 2037. In Swindon – stay with me! – a man called Aameen Patel is working the graveyard shift at Highways England’s traffic HQ when his computer screen goes blank, and the room is plunged into darkness. He tries to report …

Ajna Nizam married IjasHakkim on December 29 last year. A newly-married Muslim couple in Kerala is winning hearts on social media after the bride made an unusual request, and the groom happily complied. The young bride, Ajna Nizam, defied convention and demanded books for “mahr”, a tradition in which women usually receive a gift of …

This past year was the cap to an exhausting decade and 2020’s list of must-read books reflects that. Yes, there are the usual chronicles of tech companies, but there are also books that attempt to understand the world we live in as a result of the innovations of behemoth corporations. The 2010s have been characterized …

ENJOYING a book at bedtime is a simple pleasure children have looked forward to for generations. But now audio books, tablets and smart speakers mean they can get their story fix without the need for Mum or Dad to read to them. 1 Writer Sir Michael Morpurgo has backed our great Books For Schools giveawayCredit: …

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation, by Carl Benedikt Frey, Princeton University Press, RRP£25/$29.95 The Industrial Revolution was a catastrophe for most of the workers who lived through it. Twentieth-century technology brought opportunity and wealth to millions. This Oxford economist fears that the current wave of automation may replace …

Pugh, 69, was the second Baltimore mayor to leave office in the past decade while facing corruption allegations. The indictment accuses her of a years-long scheme dating to 2007. Maryland U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur, along with top officials from the FBI and IRS, are scheduled to address the charges unsealed Wednesday at a morning …

This article is part of our continuing Fast Forward series, which examines technological, economic, social and cultural shifts that happen as businesses evolve. Comic books have been around since the 1930s, each story taking shape as it moves from its writer to its artists (usually a penciler and an inker) and then to its letterer …