Robots are being used in an Irish hospital ‘so nurses can spend more time treating patients’ 

Robots are being used in an Irish hospital to do basic admin tasks ‘so nurses can spend more time treating coronavirus patients’ Software firm UiPath partnered with Mater Misericordiae University Hospital They will rapidly go through basic administrative tasks to free up nurses  It is hoped they will be able to spend more of their time tending patients … Read more

Huge mansion goes on the market for £7.5m (but new owner will have to spend another £13m) 

The plot for an as-yet-unbuilt mansion is for sale for £7.5million – and any prospective owner will have to be prepared to fork out an extra £13million for the construction of a 70-room stately home. The patch of land on the Crown Estate at Oxshott, Surrey – which currently features an older property – already … Read more

Huge mansion goes on the market for £7.5m (but new owner will have to spend another £13m) 

The plot for an as-yet-unbuilt mansion is for sale for £7.5million – and any prospective owner will have to be prepared to fork out an extra £13million for the construction of a 70-room stately home. The patch of land on the Crown Estate at Oxshott, Surrey – which currently features an older property – already … Read more

Can Malta perform a miracle? A mother and teenage daughter spend three nights in Valletta

Last Easter in Venice’s Guggenheim Museum, my daughter Deia, then aged 13, announced she’d had enough culture for one morning, was fed up with my ‘selfishness’ and wasn’t prepared to do what I wanted a minute longer. ‘I want to go shopping,’ she insisted mutinously. So we trudged to a grimy area near the station … Read more

Health chiefs to spend £40million to cut ‘ridiculous’ NHS tech delays

Health chiefs to spend £40million to cut ‘ridiculous’ NHS tech delays and reduce the amount of time doctors and nurses spend logging on to computers Matt Hancock said it will help deliver ‘most basic frontline technology upgrades’ Health officials hope to be able to reduce the dependence on passwords The Health Secretary pledged to banish … Read more

How to spend 48 hours in Palm Springs

A notorious Rat Pack hangout in the 1950s and 1960s, Palm Springs still draws the glamorous Hollywood set with its sleek, low-rise architecture, broad, palm-lined boulevards and slew of stylish hotels, motels and cocktail bars. There are no direct flights from the UK, but it’s an easy two-hour drive from Los Angeles International Airport. A … Read more

Artificial intelligence platform helps developers spend less time on unit tests, bug fixes, documentation

French startup Ponicode says its platform using JavaScript increases productivity by up to 10%. Java and JavaScript dominated software development in the 2010s Ruby on Rails and PHP had short-term popularity but long-term impact, and Python is on the rise again. More about artificial intelligence Developers spend around half of their time on tasks other … Read more