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        "title": "Worldwide Operating System Environments Market Shares, 2022: Uneven Market Conditions Prevail",
        "text": "A recent IDC study on the operating system environments market for 2022 found server-based OS performed well while client-based OS struggled due to a slowdown in PC markets. Embedded OS showed niche growth opportunity in support of OT and real-time use cases.",
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        "text": "In the dusty cornfields of West Kentucky, an area which had long ago been abandoned as an industrial site is once again coming to life. US manufacturer Ascend Elements has chosen the site to build a factory for electric car batteries made from recycled ones - an industry previously almost entirely based in China. It has been drawn here by US incentives. The country is spending billions in new subsidies via loans and tax breaks targeted at green energy and vehicles. Half of Ascend's initial $1bn build costs were covered by the US government under this new scheme, known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The move is part of tectonic shifts emerging in where the world makes everything. It could spark a global trade war between Western allies, as the EU responds to the US plans in kind.  It is about those in the West refusing to bow to what was thought to be the inevitable ascent of China to being the world's biggest economy. And it is about the livelihoods of those hoping to find employment in the industries of the future.  In Britain, it means there are choices to be made. A government preoccupied with Brexit and domestic political turmoil may have missed the start of a carve-up of future industries between giant trading blocs coming out of the pandemic.  The presumption that has dominated British politics for nearly half a century that governments do not \"pick winners\" in industry, is being severely tested by the fact that most G7 allies are doing just that, because of the push to reduce carbon emissions to net zero, post pandemic supply chain concerns and a wish to decouple from China.  John Neil, the boss of major UK manufacturing firm Unipart, says the combination of incentives offered by the US and similar government and regional plans could amount to $10 trillion - five times the size of the entire UK economy. \"The risk is that we're standing on the side lines while these big blocks compete\u2026 playing the game. I'm not sure that anybody [in UK politics] has calibrated the scale of change that that IRA and the Chips Act and the rest of it is going to have.\"  Mr Neil's publicly stated view reflects the private view of many in the UK car industry and beyond.  The blueprint for the US plan was written during the pandemic. On the side lines of an IMF finance ministers meeting at the G7 in late 2021 the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen invented an entirely new word: \"friendshoring\".  It was a play on the efforts to \"reshore\" domestic production in critical industries, but including allies or \"friends\" in these rebuilt supply chains. The French were cock-a-hoop when President Biden expanded upon the plan. Tellingly, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire, back then talked about reducing dependence, not just on China, but on East Asian allies too. The year before, Le Maire had been privately shocked when his officials reported that the supply chain for European electric car batteries was 85% dependent on China. For solar panels it was 95%. Indeed that week, Biden had promised \"never again\" to be dependent on another nation in critical industries.  At a rally to promote his push in January President Biden told car workers: \"You see I'm getting criticised internationally for focussing too much on America. To Hell with that. Where is it written that America can't lead the world in manufacturing again?\"  Insiders say that although the focus is on green industries, the strategy is about supporting middle income jobs and wages in left behind areas - the regions where US presidential elections are decided.  Former US President Donald Trump took Kentucky by some margin in 2016, and promised to deregulate the industry, abandon climate change efforts and allow the mines to reopen. It did not happen.  Mining union boss Steve Earle recognises the targeted nature of the White House's investment drive, channelling new industries to set up close to where the coal mines shut down, going as far as paying former miners their union wages.  \"We welcome the funding, we welcome the jobs, but I want President Biden to come from Washington DC down here and see first hand how these people have suffered for several years,\" he tells me. While Mr Earle and his fellow miners seem no fans of Trump, they are sceptical of this new world of green technology and electric cars. \"Range anxiety\" in states as wide open and empty as Kentucky is still inherent, and especially so for the farmers.  The IRA and other policies are designed to capture the clean energy transition and channel the benefits of these changes to areas that have been left behind.  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calls it: \"Modern supply side economics\".  Supply side economics is typically seen as the opposite of what President Biden is doing right now. It  focuses on the benefits of free trade, free markets, low taxes and deregulation.  Ms Yellen says that these policies have led a \"race to the bottom\".  Instead, she said in a speech last year: \"Essentially, we aren't just focused on achieving a high, top-line growth number that is unsustainable - we are instead aiming for growth that is inclusive and green.\"  Washington insiders say there is an important change in strategy on environmental policy. Where as climate policy had long focused on the stick of regulation, such as capping emissions, it is now focused on the carrot of incentives, on a massive scale. This has brought business on board. To criticism around the world that it is diverting investment from Europe and Asia to the US, deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo says the US wants the rest of the world to follow suit, and praises Canada which has just announced similar extraordinary incentives for electric car makers.  He acknowledges there are \"Made in America\" clauses but says they represent a \"small element\" of the support package.  The EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis points out that EU nations would not have dreamt of excluding US-made Tesla from their electric car subsidies. \"Many EU member states also have subsidy schemes for electric vehicles, but they are non-discriminatory. What the US is doing... discriminating against other producers, is also making it... more inefficient in terms of green transition, because the best technology will not always be available\".  One European leader told me the US had said the targeting of European industry was all a \"giant accident\", and was not meant \"aggressively\". In the US, insiders said the IRA had been created by Biden's environment team rather than his trade team, who just assumed there was already a relevant trade deal in place with the EU. There was not.  The policy aim was to ensure that EU producers were given the same allowances as other allies such as Canada. If there were subsidy wars, however, the big EU nations would be able to compete, and side line the smaller ones, creating significant pressures on the European single market.  So where does this all leave the UK? Not formally involved in the US-EU talks.  Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch had \"compared notes\" with Dombrovskis. There could be a minerals agreement to help UK car exporters benefit from the US car incentives.  The official line articulated by both the Chancellor and the Energy Secretary is that the US is playing catch up with Europe and the UK on climate change, and that the UK uses double the proportion of renewables as the US.  But the language used by government appears to be evolving. Just last month cabinet ministers described US plans as \"protectionist\" and \"dangerous\", and insisted the UK would not go \"toe to toe\" with the US.  But manufacturers have been spelling out the consequences of standing on the side lines in public, and even more so in private. Now there is some talk of focusing on target sectors, even the return of \"industrial strategy\" two years after the phrase was banished by Kwasi Kwarteng.  The government's self-imposed fiscal rule to aim for reducing national debt, limits room for manoeuvre and spending power. Labour has embraced the language of a British \"Inflation Reduction Act\" but as yet has not committed significant new money to such plans.  Would the Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves want to announce a loosening of the purse strings that risked acceptance of a rising national debt in the economy? In the US, President Biden is facing pressure to cut from Congressional Republicans threatening debt limit legislation.  Britain's post-Brexit economic strategy has been to focus on areas of strength that might benefit from faster, more effective or lighter regulation outside the EU - life sciences, the city and AI.  But John Neil and others fear the UK is being squeezed between the US & EU in this new world, especially in industries which had been promised \"levelling up\".  The chancellor has said he awaits the EU response to the US push. This may reflect a calculation that the EU might not respond quite as hard as expected, given some splits.  But this is the crux of the dilemma. The US is engaged in a massive atypical economic intervention designed to change the map of global production, address left behind areas and the net zero challenge as well as reducing reliance on China. It is here to stay and other blocs, especially the EU, will respond and are already fast-tracking some subsidies.  So, the question is should the UK follow suit, and can it afford to follow suit? There are fears in industry the scale of the intervention elsewhere means that it is already too late. ",
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        "text": "A film about the lesser known part of the Dambusters raids has been released. Narrated by late Dambuster George \"Johnny\" Johnson, Attack on Sorpe Dam features Mr Johnson's experience in the raids, which mark their 80th anniversary on 16 and 17 May. Sqn Ldr Johnson was a bomb-aimer in 617 Squadron, which destroyed key German dams in World War Two. Film director Andrew Panton said he was \"continuously involved\" until his death in December 2022 aged 101. The Bristol-produced film covers the time where Mr Johnson joined 617 squadron in March 1943, from his training right up to when they were briefed about the Dambuster raids. Launched from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and codenamed Operation Chastise, the raids led to eight of the 19 planes to be lost, the deaths of 53 men and the capture of three. The film was premiered at the former IMAX screen at Bristol Aquarium on 13 May. The filmmakers also worked with the University of Bath - with their camera team creating computer-generated imagery. Mr Panton said right from his first meeting with Mr Johnson, he \"could see that he really wanted a film where he himself could tell his complete story in his own words\", making sure it \"was accurate and factual\". \"Throughout the film, Johnny reviewed all the screenplay, he looked at the imagery we produced, just to make sure it was historically accurate,\" he explained. \"He was so happy to see that finally we had captured his story in the way he wanted it to be told.\" Tony Peters, chairman of the City of Bristol branch of the Royal Air Force Association (Rafa), said the film was a good way to remember such a \"modest\" and \"likeable\" man. \"The man himself is talking about it. He's guiding you through,\" he added. On why it's important to mark the 80th anniversary and learn about the Sorpe dam, Rafa committee member John Langwade said: \"We are of our history and if we don't remember history, we'll never learn anything. \"They were all heroes to do that again and again and again. Ordinary guy, but a hero. Just like talking to your mate.\" Ian Harding, who watched the trailer of the film, said: \"He's quite a character for Bristol and I think this film will bring that home to people who watch it.\" Josh Rowles, who as a cadet met Mr Johnson, said: \"This film really captures the story of the Sorpe Dam, something that's not been done so well. \"I'm happy to see the story being told again.\" Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk ",
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        "text": "The provision of affordable housing in some of the poorest parts of London after the 2012 Olympics has fallen far short of pledges made, the BBC has found. There was a promise to regenerate areas of east London for the \"direct benefit\" of residents - a key feature in the capital's bid to host the Games.  Originally, 9,000 homes were to be built on the former Olympic Park, half of them affordable for local people.  But fewer than 200 new homes built are offered at the cheapest levels of rent.  A decade on from the Games, which cost \u00a39bn to host, about 1,200 homes have been built on the site, most of which, it is claimed, are unattainable for many people in the area.  The planning authority responsible for development on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and surrounding areas, the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), said affordable housing targets had changed with different mayoralties. It also said many political decisions on housing provision in the area pre-dated its formation. The promises have \"melted away\", said Nick Sharman, who until recently sat on the LLDC's planning committee. \"They have been betrayed, no question about it.\" In 2005, \"the deal was very clear\" when London's first directly elected mayor Ken Livingstone championed the Olympics coming to the capital, said Mr Sharman, who was at the time in charge of regeneration at the London Development Agency.   \"He [Mr Livingstone] said: 'This is going to be the regeneration Olympics' - in other words, it's going to have a real legacy for the people of east London.\"  The official bid to host the Games, which was led by London 2012 chair Lord Coe, said that \"the most enduring legacy of the Olympics will be the regeneration of an entire community for the direct benefit of everyone who lives there\".  At the time, the area had some of the most deprived council wards in England. At the heart of Mr Livingstone's legacy pledge was that 50% of any housing built would be affordable, said Mr Sharman.  Mr Sharman added that it was \"those commitments that really inspired the enthusiasm, I think, of the Olympic Committee, but certainly the wider population\". Mr Livingstone told the BBC that had he not lost the London mayoralty to Boris Johnson, he would have ensured the 50% affordable housing pledge was kept. The legacy of the London 2012 OlympicsWhat is the definition of affordable housing? Ten years after the Games, the former Olympic Park in Stratford and its surroundings are the focus of a vast regeneration programme, led by the LLDC.  \"Instead of being the diverse community that Ken Livingstone promised, a model of social inclusion, we're getting the exact reverse,\" said Mr Sharman. On the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where many of the events were held in 2012, just under 1,200 homes have been built. Only 37% of these are officially classed as affordable, rather than the promised 50%. Chobham Manor, a development of 880 homes next to the Lee Valley Velo Park, is an \"incredible new neighbourhood\", according to developer Taylor Wimpey.   It includes 169 social and affordable rent (low-cost) homes. However, a third of units classed as affordable are offered as shared-ownership properties. This is a scheme that aims to make it \"possible for first-time buyers and families to get on to the property ladder\", according to the housing association managing the homes. Recently, 25% shares in two and three-bedroom flats were advertised. These homes required a minimum income of \u00a369,000 a year to buy - well over twice the \u00a329,000 median annual salary for residents of Newham. Of the homes currently on the park under the banner of \"affordable\", 57% are \"intermediate\" - either offered as shared ownership, or for rent at about 75% of the market rate.  However, according to masterplan for the park in 2011, only 40% of the affordable housing stock should have been intermediate, while 60% was supposed to have been made up of social or low-cost rental homes.  It's \"gentrification\", says Rudy Smith, who has spent much of her life in Newham. She and her three-year-old son are among the 33,000 households on the council's housing list.  \"It looks like we're generating wealth, helping the community, but actually you're not helping the community.  \"It's a fa\u00e7ade,\" added Ms Smith, who with her son is among about 5,700 families that have been placed in temporary accommodation by Newham Council.  They live in a \"tiny\" flat in which they share a bed, she said.   \"It's not even suitable for me if I was a single person, let alone as someone with a child.\"  Rudy says she is worried the council might only be able to offer her a permanent home away from the area.  \"I know someone personally, they've had to move to Clacton-on-Sea. Her family is in Newham and partly in Hackney. She's the only one down there in Clacton-on-Sea, you know, so it's a reality for some people and I hope it doesn't have to be an actual reality for me.\"  Like Ms Smith, Godfrey Muhoozi, a father of two from Stratford, cannot afford to rent a home privately. He says he has been on Newham Council's housing list for four years.  \"It's a nightmare,\" he said. His family currently lives in a two-bedroom flat, with his teenage daughter and teenage son sharing a bedroom.  \"It's not good, them being the age they are, especially for my daughter. \"I thought about trying to set up a partition in the room so they have some privacy, but even that is very expensive and I can't afford it.\"  Mr Muhoozi and Ms Smith are among 70,000 people on council housing lists across the four hosting boroughs of the 2012 Olympics  - Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest.  \"It is really quite shocking,\" according to academic and east London housing expert Dr Penny Bernstock. She has interviewed families living in \"terrible\" conditions near the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. \"It's the most extreme housing misery you can imagine - you know, people living in damp, miserable accommodation with a lack of light; children moving multiple times.\"  It was addressing the \"misery\" of historically impoverished east London that was central to the Olympic bid, Dr Bernstock said.  \"We have built mainly market housing in an area of acute housing need. This is particularly problematic, given that addressing deprivation, including housing deprivation, was a key dimension of  London's bid.\" The concept of affordable housing on the former Olympic Park was always \"slippery\" in any case, according to Dr Bernstock. \"We're building too many intermediate units and not enough social rented units. And so the people that are going to benefit are not going to be the average people living in the area, they're going to be wealthier people from outside.\" Dr Bernstock, who is from east London, said the former Olympic Park now has parallels with Canary Wharf, a financial and residential district in the historically deprived borough of Tower Hamlets. \"You've got this wealth in the middle and you've got the poverty around, and that poverty scenario has not changed,\" she said.  However, Dr Bernstock added that she believed there had been some recent improvements in terms of affordable housing provision on the park. The LLDC said all such homes on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park had so far gone to local people.  By 2035, a total of 5,426 homes are scheduled to have been built on the former Olympic Park, according to the LLDC, rather than the 9,000 originally proposed.   The residential ambitions were altered 2014, when plans were made for the East Bank quarter. This will see branches of the V&A museum, Sadler's Wells theatre, the BBC and the London College of Fashion arrive in Stratford in the coming years. The LLDC said it believed this would be of more long-term benefit to the area than additional homes. However, according to Dr Bernstock, this approach \"compromised\" any affordable housing plans.   Instead of the 2,600 homes originally planned for one site on the park, 600 homes will be built, and the Stratford Waterfront development will consist only of shared-ownership flats.  \"This is 0% affordable housing,\" said Dr Bernstock. A formal legal agreement on such housing as part of the legacy of the 2012 Olympics should have been made before the Games, she added.  When all the housing schemes on the park have been completed, 40% will be classed as affordable, including a mixture of tenures, the LLDC said.  The planning authority, set up by Boris Johnson when he was London's mayor to develop the area post-Olympics, has overseen the construction of about 11,500 new homes since 2012, including those in the park itself. Despite 2012 City Hall guidance that 40% of legacy homes should be affordable, the LLDC said only 24% of them were, with 12% being categorised as low-cost.  The legacy scheme to deliver the most social housing so far is the East Village in Stratford.  Triathlon Homes manages 675 social homes on the site, which originally housed Olympic athletes and was later converted into flats. A further 48 social homes are under construction there. While this is welcomed, it should however be balanced against the previous loss of low-cost housing in the area, according to Dr Piero Corcillo, an urban regeneration expert at Birkbeck University, who completed a PhD on social mixing at East Village. \"We also need to consider that in order to build the Olympic Park, a social housing estate, the Clays Lane Estate, was demolished and that provided 425 housing units,\" he said.  Of the 3,800 homes on the site, the majority are offered at market-rate rent by property company Get Living, which says it \"looks to respond to the acute need for new homes in central London\". Two-bedroom flats in the East Village can be rented out for upwards of \u00a32,300 a month. Built with public money, the site was to have been 50% affordable housing, according to plans drawn up several years before the Games.  \"This hasn't been delivered,\" said Dr Corcillo, who added that \"there's no mechanism to bring decision-makers to account\".  The development is not socially inclusive, he said, and is instead \"definitely geared towards the middle classes, and the better-off fraction of the working class\". When the East Village development is complete, 30% of the homes will be affordable, according to Get Living, which says it has fulfilled its affordable housing obligations. Elsewhere, large developments have sprung up in parts of Stratford such as Chobham Farm, as well as in Hackney Wick, Fish Island and Bromley-by-Bow.  Mr Sharman, who was until recently a Hackney councillor, said he believed his area had been transformed into a \"middle-class barracks\".  Many of the new homes are attracting affluent couples from outside the area, he said, adding: \"When they start having more than one child, almost certainly they will move out. \"I think what comes hardest is that we put so much money into the Olympics, made it a great Games, a fantastically inclusive Games; the legacy of that money has been simply to benefit this narrow band of people. And it didn't have to be that way.\" Mr Sharman believes what has happened is a \"microcosm\" of a wider housing problem in the capital: \"The London housing market is not catering for Londoners.\"  The LLDC has to cope with a \"fatally flawed\" model, as it inherited the debt for hosting the Games, he believes. It has, Mr Sharman says, an \"impossible job\".  \"They were charged with developing the area, and maximising the land value of it, in order to repay the loans and the subsidies,\" he said. \"So they had two things that are in contradiction, and you can't be both gamekeeper and poacher.  \"And that is the fundamental problem.\"  The LLDC expects some 33,000 homes to be built by 2036 in its planning area, with a target of 35% affordable housing It said schemes must be viable for developers and that it wanted to maximise both affordable housing and the returns from the sitesIt said that provision of affordable and social housing was limited by government funding and that it was the government that defines what affordable housing isThe LLDC says it has and continues to deliver subsidised homesThe government said the legacy of the Olympics was managed by the LLDC and that it had provided \u00a34bn to the Greater London Authority directly, to deliver genuinely affordable housing for communities Follow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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        "title": "SaaSPath 2023: Banner Books for ERP, Finance, PSA, SCM,  Core HR, Payroll, Talent Management, and ALM/EAM",
        "text": "IDC's Pivot Table banner books offer data on 8 of 23 application categories for their SaaSPath 2023 program, including adoption, deployment, budgeting, replacement cycle timing, purchasing preferences, SaaS buying channels, packaging, pricing options, vendor reviews and ratings.",
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        "text": "Nine online talking-therapy treatments for anxiety or depression have been given the green light to be used by the NHS in England. They offer faster access to help but less time with a therapist, which may not suit everyone, the health body recommending them said. There is huge demand for face-to-face services, with people waiting several weeks to see a therapist. Psychiatrists said digital therapies were not a long-term solution. Mental-health charity Sane said they were no substitute for a one-to-one relationship and could leave people feeling even more isolated than before. One out of every six people in England says they experience a common mental-health problem such as anxiety and depression in any given week. In 2021-22, more than half a million people were referred to depression and anxiety services - called NHS Talking Therapies - for problems such as body-dysmorphic disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias. The new digital therapies are delivered via a website or an app and use cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). They provide an alternative way of accessing support, which may be more convenient for some, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says. They could also free up resources and help reduce the wait for care. Its guidance recommends six therapies designed to treat adults with anxiety disorders and three to treat those with depression, including Beating the Blues, Deprexis and Space from Anxiety. Before treatment starts, there is a formal assessment with a trained clinician or practitioner but after that, clinicians are involved much less: During online depression therapy, 90 minutes is spent with a therapist instead of eight hours during standard careOnline anxiety therapy gives four hours with a clinician, as opposed to 10 hours under normal care Dr David Rigby, who jointly chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrists' digital group, said digital therapies could make it easier for some vulnerable patients to access vital mental-health support but were not a long-term solution. \"Mental health services are struggling with chronic staff shortages which are making it difficult for them to provide patients with quick and effective treatment,\" he said. \"The government must tackle the workforce crisis by honouring its commitment to publish a comprehensive NHS workforce plan this year.\"  Marjorie Wallace CBE, founder and chief executive of Sane, said digital therapy \"may be very useful for some\" but was \"no substitute for a one-to-one relationship with someone who knows their story\". \"Our experience with those who contact us is that self-diagnosis and techniques of self-management do not always reach the layers of their inner mental pain and can leave them feeling even more unsafe and alone,\" she said.  Mark Chapman from NICE said: \"One of our priorities is to get the best care to people fast while at the same time ensuring value for money for the taxpayer - these digitally enabled therapies do both.\"  But the choice of online therapy \"must be the right one for the individual\", he said. While some of the digital therapies are already in use, others require further approvals being they can be rolled out. NICE will look at the evidence from their use over the next few years to work out how cost-effective they are.",
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        "text": "Some older people living in sheltered accommodation fear \"unfair\" cuts to support services will affect them mentally and physically. Residents of Bangor's Montgomery Manor are worried cuts will make them feel alone and less safe. The Supporting People' scheme could be cut as the Department for Communities is set to make a 16% spending cut. Any cuts could mean fewer morning check calls and fewer social activities for residents. Tenant Sam Lowry said: \"I would be locked up 24 hours a day in my bungalow and see nobody.\" He said that without the wildlife group and other opportunities the scheme provided, \"you'd just go into your bungalow and you'd rot away - simple\". \"It might just sound like a cup of tea to you, but to us, it's getting out, it's talking to each other and seeing people you haven't seen in a couple of days, making sure everybody's fine. Just asking how you are - that means an awful lot to someone in our position,\" he added. The Supporting People programme allows different groups to live as independently as possible in the community by providing services to about 19,000 people in Northern Ireland, including 8,000 older people.  The programme funds the scheme co-ordinators and out-of-hours telephone services that allow tenants to access emergency help when needed. Budget cuts could mean reducing co-ordinators' hours.  Jean Ann Peters, who is originally from South Africa, has been a tenant at Montgomery Manor for six months.  She said the co-ordinators made everybody feel like they had a family, even if they hadn't. \"You feel as if you've either got a mother or a daughter in there,\" she said. If their support services were reduced, Jean said people at the home wouldn't feel as safe.  \"They bring out a light and a family and a joy, there's always someone there to look after you,\" she said.  \"So losing it would be awful.\" Tenant David O'Neill said if these services were not protected, everybody's standard of living would drop, which was simply not fair. \"When we have so many price rises, inflation has gone up and now they seem to want to cut the budget, it's just not right.\" Tenant Clements MacDonald said services should be protected for the physical and mental well-being of older people. The scheme aims to reduce pressure on other public services including health and social care services. Alpha Housing Chief Executive Cameron Watt said his was a preventative service that saved the public purse money, and cuts would impact some of Northern Ireland's oldest and most vulnerable citizens. \"Every \u00a31 invested in support services like this saves the public purse \u00a32.60 by reducing pressure, particularly on health and care services,\" he said.  \"If cuts were made, we would try to soften that, but I think within 3-6 months you could see the services here and the 350 other sheltered schemes could have to be cut back dramatically.\" That would have a big impact on some 8,000 older people across Northern Ireland within this year, he added.",
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        "text": "Shortcomings in secret surveillance of the PSNI's own officers were \"a recipe for disaster\", former Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde has said. Another retired senior officer said there should be a judge-led inquiry into the extent of failings within internal corruption investigations.  BBC Spotlight has looked at the fallout from a bribery investigation that led to officers being arrested or suspended. It collapsed without criminal charges. Sir George Hamilton, who led the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) at the time, said he was \"satisfied with the integrity and professionalism of the investigation\". Spotlight has examined failings around the high-profile bribery investigation into multi-million pound police vehicle contracts. In 2014, eight people were arrested and questioned in connection with the case, including retired Assistant Chief Constable Duncan McCausland and a serving PSNI officer.  The then-Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, Police Mark Gilmore, was suspended.  His home and office were searched although he was not arrested. No charges were brought against any of the police or civilians caught up in the case. Mr McCausland and Mr Gilmore complained to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal about secret surveillance in the case.  In December 2022, the PSNI settled the case just before a public hearing was about to start, admitting it had broken its own intelligence rules. The police investigation into Mr McCausland and Mr Gilmore had been running for years before the arrests.  It involved secret surveillance, including the interception of personal phone calls by Mr Gilmore. An employee of Newforge Country Club, a recreation complex in Belfast, claims he was asked by police to spy on the former senior PSNI officers.  There are strict rules regulating the use of intelligence sources that require police to review members of the public who provide them with information more than three times. In 2022 the PSNI conceded this did not happen in the case of the Newforge source. Police handlers spent thousands of pounds on him, buying gifts and meals in upmarket restaurants, as well as bringing him to Ulster Rugby games. Police had nearly 70 meetings with the source and called him more than 700 times, according to Mr McCausland and Mr Gilmore's solicitor. The most senior detective in Northern Ireland at the time of the bribery investigation told Spotlight he had concerns about the way the case had been conducted. Former Det Ch Supt Tim Hanley said: \"I think the term I used was 'system chaos'. \"I would describe it as like a juggernaut, and nobody wanted to put their foot on the brake.\" Spotlight also uncovered extracts from a report by the Surveillance Commissioners issued in 2016. The report extract does not refer directly to the bribery investigation but said some spying on police officers had \"no external oversight\". It also said the Covert Authorities Bureau, the gatekeeper for secret surveillance, was \"totally unsighted\" on some internal PSNI cases. Former PSNI Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde told the programme that without such checks and balances in place you have \"run a coach and horses through the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act\". \"If you have someone operating out with that check and that balance you have a recipe for disaster,\" he said. The Northern Ireland Policing Board, which oversees the PSNI, told Spotlight it was not \"made aware of or briefed on\" the commissioners' report. At that time, the board was told the surveillance commissioners \"noted the excellence of PSNI practice and procedure but made recommendations of a technical nature\". The PSNI said it developed an action plan to address a recommendation from the 2016 report which it said \"was noted as discharged\" in a commissioner's inspection the following year. The BBC investigation has unearthed an evidence trail that suggests the bribery investigation was not the only case where intelligence sources were operating with questionable authority. Sources have told Spotlight the PSNI's source handling unit was tasking senior police officers and civilians to spy on other officers.  The informants were known as ethical officers. There is no such classification under the legislation which regulates how public bodies collect intelligence. Mr McCausland and Mr Gilmore's solicitor, Ernie Waterworth said: \"The system does not allow them to be 'ethical officers'.  \"If they're working for the good of the organisation in a covert way, they have to be registered and authorised.\" In a statement to Spotlight, the PSNI maintained that the use of ethical officers does not fall within the remit of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.  But it also said it no longer used ethical officers. Former Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan called for an independent judge led inquiry to understand the full extent of police failings. \"The public needs to find out , the Policing Board needs to be assured what went on there, how did it happen because unless you set out honestly and openly to open that up and fix it you don't know it's not going to happen again,\" he said. Spotlight - Covert Cops: When Spying Goes Wrong is available on BBC iPlayer.",
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        "title": "U.S. SMB Communications Services Forecast, 2023\u20132027",
        "text": "IDC forecasts revenue for US SMB communications services market through 2027. SMBs invest in tech and services, creating opportunities for vendors. Providers must customize solutions for uncertain economic environment.",
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        "text": "A woman who lost her husband to skin cancer has fulfilled his dream of raising \u00a350,000 to pay for a mole-checking machine. Mike Hull, from Droitwich, Worcestershire, died in March 2022, but his wife, Carol, said he was involved in the fundraising almost until the very end. She said he would have been very pleased to see the target reached. The machine will go to Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Her husband was \"gentle, kind, always with a smile\", Mrs Hull said. She said he worked in the prison service and fire service \"so he had a calmness about him\". He was diagnosed with melanoma - the most serious type of skin cancer - in 2013. Instead of withdrawing into himself, she said he \"went the opposite way\" and committed himself to raising money to buy the piece of equipment. She said: \"He was always on the go, he never stopped.\" The couple, along with family and friends, sold cakes, made bracelets and helped to do bacon and sausage rolls on a Saturday morning at Droitwich Spa Football Club to raise money. Their supporters also knitted and sold teddy bears, held quizzes, discos and reunions,  Mr Hull died just before he was able to hit his target of \u00a350,000 and his wife said: \"I was extremely upset because I had this think in my head that mike was going to beat it.\" But she was able to get the appeal over the finishing line and ended up raising \u00a358,000. The money will be used to pay for the machine which can be used to quickly check suspicious moles for signs of melanoma and the excess will go to the Royal Marsden Hospital PEACE project. Their study collects tissue samples from people with melanoma after their death to analyse and improve understanding of the disease. She said she thought it helped her, after losing her husband and added: \"I'll be happy because I'll have fulfilled his dream and I think he'll be watching us and he'll be pleased.\" Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk",
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        "text": "Tributes have been paid to an artist whose arrest sparked riots in Liverpool more than 40 years ago.  Leroy Cooper was 20 in 1981 when his detention became the catalyst for nine days of disturbances in Toxteth. He went on to become a poet and street photographer, capturing more than 250,000 images that championed his community. The Museum of Liverpool, which is holding an exhibition of his work, said it was \"deeply saddened\" by his death. \"We have known Leroy for many years and we were so pleased this relationship recently led to his first major display, 'Liverpool Through the Lens by Leroy Cooper', which opened in April,\" it said. The museum said the exhibition of his images, which will continue to run in his memory until next year, emanates \"genuine pride, love and solidarity for his community who were so important to him\".   News of Mr Cooper's death has seen an outpouring of tributes on social media from those who knew him or were familiar with his work.  Liverpool Riverside MP Kim Johnson wrote that it was \"desperately sad news\" and described his photography as \"beautiful pictures that reflected his love for his L8 community\". \"He will live long in our hearts and in our history,\" she added. In the run-up to the 1981 riots, tensions had been rising in the inner-city neighbourhood of Toxteth with police having a reputation for stopping and searching black youths.  Mr Cooper's arrest - while he was trying to help another resident near Granby Street - was witnessed by an angry crowd on the evening of Friday 3 July. The Merseyside officers' treatment of Mr Cooper led to a fracas in which three policemen were injured. Disturbances escalated rapidly and turned into full-blown riots, with pitched battles between police officers and youths throwing petrol bombs and paving stones.  In the years after his arrest, Mr Cooper enrolled on a photography course and pursued it as a career, capturing images to counter negativity about the neighbourhood. Speaking at the launch of his exhibition last month, he said his photos showed the area as a \"place of warmth, community and family\". \"I think, after Liverpool's connection with black people over 300 years, it is a very important moment in the city. They are celebrating my work after 40 years of being on the street telling the story of our city. \"It's a labour of love - I genuinely love the people of Liverpool.\"  Jubeda Khatun, from the city's art organisation Blackfest, said: \"I spent hours in conversation with Leroy and he always flowed with wisdom and creativity, what an amazing human, talent and huge inspiration to us.\" The Blast Network, which supports black social traders in the city, also described him as \"a much-loved community member\". Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk",
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        "url": "https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US49325323&pageType=PRINTFRIENDLY",
        "title": "U.S. Printer and MFP Market Shares, 2022: Recovery Stalled by Product Shortages",
        "text": "IDC's study on the printer and MFP market for 2022 shows that demand exceeded supply due to supply chain crisis and COVID-19 outbreaks. Shipping container availability recovered midyear, but microchip and component shortages remained. Some vendors gained or lost market share based on their supply chain management. Future market shifts will depend on how well vendors' offerings fit with the transformed workplace after the crisis ends.",
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    },
    {
        "url": "https://blogs.idc.com/2023/02/06/how-to-manage-it-spend-in-an-inflationary-environment/",
        "title": "How to Manage IT Spend in an Inflationary Environment",
        "text": "Inflation is causing IT leaders to make tough decisions about technology investments in 2023. IT spending plans have been influenced by disruptions such as supply chain issues and difficulty securing skilled workers. Companies should prioritize short-term savings, mid-term gains, and long-term architectural choices that lower operating costs. Cloud services can deliver significant benefits, but IT leaders should ensure they are reducing current waste in cloud and other resources. In the long term, focusing on cost optimization is the right strategy for tech investment as it is at the core of competing as a digital business.",
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    },
    {
        "url": "https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US50563023&pageType=PRINTFRIENDLY",
        "title": "Worldwide Smart Earwear Market Shares, 2022: Apple Leads in a Down Year",
        "text": "Apple dominated the truly wireless hearables market in 2022, followed by Xiaomi and BoAt. Samsung and JBL also made it to the top 5. The market is now moving towards replacement cycles, which may result in a decline for some vendors. Emerging markets still offer potential for growth, but vendors need to focus on providing feature-rich devices and aspirational brands to attract consumers.",
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        "text": "The suspected leaker of a large batch of US military documents, Jack Teixeira, has been charged in a Boston court and detained pending trial, but where did the classified files come from and how were they shared online?  We've pieced together what we know about how they first appeared and where they spread online. The documents were initially posted on a small private chat group called \"Bear vs Pig\".  This was itself a sub-group of another known as \"Thug Shaker Central\" on the Discord social media platform.  Both were accessible by invitation-only and had around two dozen members.   In court papers in support of Mr Teixeira's arrest, the FBI says he first posted classified information online as paragraphs of text \"in or about December 2022\".   It says he then posted photographs of documents \"in or around January 2023\". In interviews with the Washington Post and New York Times, members of Thug Shaker Central say they had initially met in another Discord group dedicated to fans of a YouTuber who posts videos about guns and military gear. These members say that during the Covid lockdowns, they broke away to form their own private group and that Mr Teixiera was the driving force in this new close-knit community. Members of group say it not only contained US citizens but also others from Ukraine, Russia, South America and elsewhere. For a few months the classified documents remained private to this group.   Attention has focused on an individual with the user name \"Lucca\" who, in early March, posted some of the documents on a public channel on Discord called \"wow_mao\".  This same user was also a member of the Thug Shaker Central community, according to the New York Times.   Shortly afterwards, in another public Discord channel, during a brief argument about the online game Minecraft and the war in Ukraine, a user says \"here, have some leaked documents\" and posts several screenshots. It was following this public sharing of the documents that Mr Teixeira quickly deleted Thug Shaker Central, including its sub-group, Bear vs Pig. On 5 April, screenshots of the documents appeared on the message board 4chan, one of the biggest and most controversial hubs of internet subculture.  They were shared on one of 4chan's most notorious boards known as /pol/ - standing for politically incorrect - by anonymous users during an argument about the exact number of Ukrainian and Russian casualties there had been in the conflict. Just a few hours later, these documents began appearing on pro-Kremlin Telegram channels and were also picked up by prominent military bloggers. One image - widely circulated by Russian channels - was edited to reduce the number of Russian troops killed and inflate the Ukrainian losses.  By 7 April, the documents were also circulating on some of the major social media platforms, such as Twitter and Reddit.  Initially, pro-Kremlin Telegram channels who shared the screenshots did not dwell much on the authenticity of the documents, focusing largely on their content. But soon several prominent channels and media outlets started to lean towards portraying the documents as at least partly fake. An expert quoted by ultranationalist news website Regnum suggested the documents may be a deliberate leak aimed at providing a smokescreen for the coming Ukrainian counter-offensive. On state TV, Yuri Podolyaka, a prominent war commentator, said this was \"planted information\" intended to mislead Russia about the counter-offensive. Olga Skabeyeva, host of state Rossiya 1 TV's 60 Minutes talk show said the West had been doing \"all it can to create the image of a weak Ukraine whose shells are running out and which has nothing left at all\". Questions about the authenticity of the documents have been raised in Ukraine too, with some commentators accusing Russia of planting fake documents ahead of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.  Multiple screenshots of the documents - often of poor quality - are still circulating on Twitter, Telegram and Reddit.  But the originals are much harder to find. A lot of the original copies have now disappeared from the chats where they first emerged.  Others who shared the screenshots on Discord, Telegram and Twitter have either wiped out their feeds or deleted their social media profiles altogether. And there's a great deal of paranoia too. One user who has previously shared screenshots of the documents on Discord told fellow users they'd been trying to get rid of all the copies they had on their phone. Another was quick to respond to a plea to share more documents on the forum with: \"Nice try FBI\".  Additional reporting by Adam Robinson and Daniele Palumbo.",
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    {
        "url": "https://blogs.idc.com/2022/12/09/licensed-versus-customized-content-and-how-to-choose-which-is-right-for-you/",
        "title": "Licensed versus Customized Content and How to Choose Which is Right for You",
        "text": "Creating effective marketing content that engages the target audience and moves them through the buying cycle is a complex task, especially with hyperaware buyers and short attention spans. Licensing or customizing research content can be a cost-effective way to obtain varied content for different stages of the buyer's journey. To serve the digital-first customer, content needs to evolve to support their full journey, rather than episodic content creation. Assessing and addressing gaps in strategy, talent, organization, governance, business processes, data and technology can help create a prioritized roadmap for effective marketing. Contact IDC to learn more about licensing or customizing research content.",
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    },
    {
        "url": "https://blogs.idc.com/2023/01/27/engaging-with-digital-native-businesses-in-a-downturn/",
        "title": "Engaging with Digital Native Businesses in a Downturn",
        "text": "The economic downturn has affected digital native businesses, with VC funding cycles showing a decline in deal activity and late-stage deals. However, fundraising remains resilient, and tech-oriented DNBs are least affected. B2C-oriented DNBs have been hit the hardest, with larger companies forced to reconsider their business models. While the downturn presents challenges, it also presents opportunities in recession-resilient tech areas. IDC expects worldwide digital native business tech spending to grow with a CAGR of 20.9% to become a $500 billion market in 2026. Overall, DNBs can navigate the current economic environment and secure the funding they need to grow their businesses by focusing on industry-specific growth opportunities.",
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    },
    {
        "url": "https://blogs.idc.com/2022/12/07/digital-marketing-vs-sales-conversations-were-all-talking-but-what-is-the-buyer-hearing/",
        "title": "Digital Marketing vs Sales Conversations. We\u2019re all Talking, but What is the Buyer Hearing?",
        "text": "Marketing and sales teams face challenges due to information overload and decreasing attention spans of consumers. Content marketing is a solution that focuses on creating and distributing relevant content across channels to help buyers achieve their objectives. There is a communication gap between marketing and sales, which prevents revenue generation from being optimal. The Adaptive Customer Engagement (ACE) model presents a new marketing and sales model based on IDC's latest research, acknowledging that today's buyers are digital-first. The ACE model aims to have a closed loop relationship with buyers who become clients, achieving the ultimate goal of customer loyalty.",
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    },
    {
        "url": "https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US49436223&pageType=PRINTFRIENDLY",
        "title": "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Commerce Platform Software Providers 2023 Vendor Assessment",
        "text": "IDC MarketScape evaluates enterprise software vendors' capabilities in serving the needs of retail companies worldwide. Vendors are assessed based on their successes in designing, developing, installing, configuring, and maintaining the evolution of complete retail commerce platforms with all core capabilities. The retail industry's rising expectations around core capabilities offerings has shaped the retail commerce platform software vendor scenario.",
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        "text": "No drone was found after a suspected sighting of one led to flights being disrupted at Gatwick on Sunday, the airport said.  Operations were suspended temporarily just before 13:45 BST but resumed about 50 minutes later. Twelve inbound flights were diverted to other airports during the incident but all returned to Gatwick on Sunday. A spokesperson for the West Sussex airport said passenger safety was its \"absolute priority\". They said: \"Passenger safety is the airport's absolute priority and, following established procedures, operations at London Gatwick were suspended temporarily at 13:44, while investigations into the sighting of a suspected drone close to the airfield took place.  \"This investigation followed sightings from a pilot and also airfield staff about a suspected drone close to the flight path of approaching aircraft.   \"Following further investigation, no drone was found and the airfield reopened at 14:35.\"   Gatwick was shut for more than a day in December 2018 after drone sightings. No-one was ever prosecuted over the incident that caused chaos for travellers, affecting more than 1,000 flights and about 140,000 passengers. Since then, experts have been working on systems to prevent drones disrupting operations at major airports. Follow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk. ",
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    {
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        "text": "The UK will send hundreds of air defence missiles and armed drones to Ukraine on top of the Storm Shadow cruise missiles announced last week. The move means the UK is going further than any other country in providing weapons with the potential to tip the battlefield in Ukraine's favour. Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky met the UK's Rishi Sunak as part of his tour of Western allies. Mr Zelensky said it was important for the West to send fighter jets as well. But the prime minister said providing fighter jets was \"not a straightforward thing\", although he did say the UK would form \"a key part of the coalition countries\" providing that support. Ukraine is continuing to prepare for a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces. Last week, Mr Zelensky told the BBC his country needed more weaponry before it could launch the attack. On Monday, the Ukrainian president had about two hours of talks with Mr Sunak at Chequers, near London. He arrived on British soil for a surprise visit after a whirlwind tour of Western Europe that also took in Rome, Berlin and Paris. Mr Zelensky said Ukraine and the UK were \"real partners\", while Mr Sunak's spokesman described the meeting as \"warm and collegiate\". The Storm Shadow cruise missiles can be used to destroy Russia's positions on occupied Ukrainian territory.  If Ukraine can destroy Russia's command centres, logistics hubs and ammunition depots in occupied territory, then it may prove impossible for Moscow to continue resupplying its frontline troops in places. This is what Ukraine did so successfully in Kherson last year, forcing the Russians to withdraw almost without a fight. It will now be hoping to repeat the process with the help of Western-supplied munitions. What weapons are being given to Ukraine by the UK?The challenges of giving fighter jets to Ukraine President Zelensky's repeated calls for Nato to send F-16 jets are being met with delays and obfuscations, for several reasons.  The Ukrainian air force has trained its pilots on F-16s, which the RAF do not use, but such training takes months, not days.  Logistics, maintenance and the need to find suitable runways are all important too. Finally, there is the question of escalation. Nato is struggling to balance giving Kyiv the maximum support it can, without getting directly drawn into this conflict.  If Nato does end up sending F-16 warplanes, however old they may be, then that, in Moscow's eyes, constitutes a major provocation by the West. Mr Zelensky said he discussed the supply of Western fighter jets with Mr Sunak.  New jets were a \"very important topic for us, because we can't control the sky\", the Ukrainian leader added. \"We spoke about it and I see that in the closest time you will hear some, I think, very important decisions, but we have to work a little bit more on it,\" he said.  The UK has no plans to send fighter jets to Ukraine, according to the prime minister's official spokesman. But No 10 said elementary training for Ukrainian pilots would begin this summer, along with British efforts to work with other countries on providing F-16 jets to Ukraine. The prime minister's official spokesman also denied that any drones supplied by the UK would be used to hit targets inside Russia. They would be used for the defence of Ukraine on Ukrainian sovereign territory, the spokesman said.  Mr Sunak said: \"This is a crucial moment in Ukraine's resistance to a terrible war of aggression they did not choose or provoke. \"They need the sustained support of the international community to defend against the barrage of unrelenting and indiscriminate attacks that have been their daily reality for over a year.\" In response, Russia said the new British weapons due to be supplied to Kyiv would only cause \"further destruction\". \"Britain aspires to position itself at the forefront of the countries that continue to pump weapons into Ukraine,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Ukraine secured a new defence aid package from Germany after talks in Berlin with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday, taking its total military funding to nearly $7bn (\u00a36.44bn). Mr Zelensky described the new pledge of German Leopard tanks and anti-aircraft systems as \"the largest since the beginning of the full-scale aggression\" by Russia in February 2022. France has promised dozens more light tanks and armoured vehicles after President Emmanuel Macron met his Ukrainian counterpart in Paris. In February, Mr Zelensky visited London for the first time since the start of the war, during which he attended an audience with the King and addressed Parliament. His latest visit to the UK comes ahead of a G7 gathering in Hiroshima, Japan, later this week which will also be attended by Mr Sunak.",
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    },
    {
        "url": "https://blogs.idc.com/2023/05/03/major-industry-update-comes-to-idc-spending-guide/",
        "title": "Major Industry Update Comes to IDC Spending Guide",
        "text": "IDC's Spending Guides, which provide technology market intelligence, will undergo updates in 2023 and 2024 that will increase the number of industries covered from 20 to 28, as well as provide deeper analysis capabilities. The update includes a planned size segmentation refresh and a restructuring of industry coverage within IDC's taxonomy. The benefits will be felt most notably in industries such as Discrete Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, Professional Services, Wholesale, Personal and Consumer Services, Resource Industries, Retail, Transportation, and Insurance. The update will help Spending Guide users to identify, analyze, validate, and action questions and insights specific to the industries they serve.",
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        "text": "UK holiday village chain Center Parcs has been put up for sale by its owner, the Canadian private equity firm Brookfield. The company is looking to raise between \u00a34bn and \u00a35bn from the sale according to the Financial Times. Brookfield bought the business for about \u00a32.4bn in 2015.  Center Parcs runs six holiday villages in the UK and Ireland which attract more than two million visitors every year. They are particularly popular with families as they offer a range of activities on-site, with an indoor waterpark as the central attraction and wooden cabins set in cycle-friendly forests. The first UK location opened in 1987, at Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. There are now holiday villages at Elveden Forest, Longleat Forest, Whinfell Forest and Woburn Forest. In 2019, it opened its first site in Ireland, with Center Parcs Longford Forest close to the town of Ballymahon in County Longford. The Financial Times said that Brookfield had appointed investment bankers to sound out potential buyers, including other private equity firms. Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell, said there still appeared to be strong demand for Center Parcs holidays for now, with some wealthier holidaymakers trading down from holidays abroad. \"During the pandemic Brits rushed to snap up sought after places, but even with cash-strapped families ditching the extra 'staycation' in favour of one holiday, it's clear by the prices and availability that there's still more than enough business to go around - so far,\" she said. But rising mortgage costs and the difficult economic climate did raise a question over future growth, she added. Earlier this year, Center Parcs scrapped plans to develop a new holiday village in West Sussex. In July 2021, the company had secured an option agreement to acquire Oldhouse Warren, a privately-owned woodland on the outskirts of Crawley. However, Center Parcs said a \"rigorous\" environmental survey had revealed that the site was not suitable for development. Environmentalists had argued that the site would destroy established woodland and damage the habitats of rare birds. At the end of last year Center Parcs said occupancy rates were at 97.3%, and broadly in line with pre-Covid levels.  Revenue of \u00a3426.6m between April and December last year represented a 20% increase compared to the same period a year earlier, and 18% higher than before the pandemic. Last year, Center Parcs was forced to backtrack over a decision to ask guests to leave its sites on the day of the Queen's funeral. When it announced the move, it said the decision was made \"as a mark of respect\" and to allow employees to \"be part of this historic moment\". But the move prompted angry complaints from holidaymakers as it would have meant some guests would have had to leave part-way through their break and return afterwards. Center Parcs UK is a separate business from Center Parcs Europe, which has holiday villages in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and France. The European business is still owned by Blackstone Group which sold the UK part of the business to Brookfield in 2015.",
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        "title": "Worldwide Smartphone Market Shares, 2022: A Painful Year for Smartphones",
        "text": "IDC's study on the 2022 worldwide smartphone market shows declining consumer demand and a market decline of over 11%. However, there is a positive increase in foldable devices, with a 74% growth in 2022 and an expected 51% growth in 2023.",
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        "text": "A project to help train and develop new and emerging film and TV production crew has been awarded \u00a3600,000. Resource Productions CIC, Shinfield Studios and the University of Reading have partnered to create the Berkshire-based scheme. The aim is to build a larger local skills base and help people find viable routes into the screen industry. The funding comes from the British Film Institute (BFI) and will cover three years. It is part of a wider programme of investment by the BFI which will see a total of \u00a39.6m of National Lottery funding to support skills development and training across the UK. The industry-wide scheme aims to create new opportunities for those from underrepresented backgrounds, individuals upskilling and people over 50 returning to work.   Dominique Unsworth MBE, CEO of Resource Productions CIC, said: \"We've all been talking about screen sector skills gaps for so long, now we actually have some resource to enable real action.\" Dr Shweta Ghosh, from the University of Reading, said diversity in the film industry was crucial for promoting new perspectives from underrepresented groups.  \"It's not just about social justice, it's also about expanding the creative boundaries of filmmaking,\" she explained \"We can create a more authentic representation of the world on screen and develop inclusive and accessible filmmaking practices by making film production more diverse.\" Shinfield Studios is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2024 and Nick Smith, joint managing director, said the goal was to build on the area's existing production talent and infrastructure to help address the wider skills shortage and offer a career pathway for local people. \"With Shinfield Studios less than 12 months away from being fully operational, there will be even more opportunity for employment in this rewarding sector,\" he added. Follow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.",
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        "text": " A group of primary school children has suffered traumatic, \"life-changing\" injuries after a horrific bus crash in Melbourne, Australia. The bus was carrying 45 students when police say it was hit by a truck from behind and rolled on Tuesday afternoon. Some 18 children - aged 5 to 11 - were rushed to hospital, many for emergency surgery. One remains in intensive care. The truck driver has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury.  Australia has a below-average road safety record compared to other advanced economies. It ranks 20th of out of 36 OECD countries for road fatalities. Warning: This article contains distressing details Police said the bus had only just left Exford Primary School, on the western fringes of Melbourne, when the collision occurred. Children were trapped inside the bus before bystanders - including the truck driver and many of their teachers, who had rushed to the scene - helped emergency responders to free them from the wreckage. Surgeons worked into the early hours of the morning to treat those children seriously hurt. Their injuries included crushed limbs - forcing amputations - as well as head injuries, spinal injuries and serious cuts.  Seven children remain at the hospital in serious conditions, including one in intensive care, the Royal Children's Hospital said. \"It is just distressing, knowing what our kids have been through and I can just imagine their fear,\" principal Lisa Campo told media on Wednesday. The 52-year-old bus driver was also taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was among those who thanked first responders and sent well-wishes to the families involved. \"Any accident is just horrific, the fact that it involves school students just breaks your heart,\" he said. Superintendent Michael Cruse said the scene of the crash was extremely confronting for all who were there. \"Some of the injuries are life changing [and] this incident was avoidable,\" he said. The 49-year-old truck driver - who suffered minor injuries - has since been charged with four counts of dangerous driving.  Investigations are ongoing, but Supt Cruse said \"inattention\" would be a key focus, and more charges are likely to be laid.",
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        "text": "New Zealand police have launched a homicide inquiry into a fire at an emergency housing hostel in Wellington, where at least six people were killed. Officials said up to 20 people were still missing and they were treating the blaze as an act of arson. The fire had broken out at the four-storey Loafers Lodge hostel early Tuesday - forcing residents to the rooftop and some to jump from windows. Due to the damage, police have not yet been able to confirm the death toll. However, they warned that number could rise on Wednesday, as a team of investigators was sent into the building after an assessment of the building's integrity. \"Officers will be working to locate and recover those who have lost their lives tragically in this fire,\" Acting Wellington District Commander Dion Bennett told reporters on Wednesday, \"We know there are many people waiting for news of family and friends including residents who escaped the fire and who are keenly waiting for news of their fellow tenants.\" More than 90 people had been accounted for. But authorities have not yet disclosed the identities of the dead or those missing - some of whom might be unaccounted for due to other reasons, they said. The incident has shocked New Zealand. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins called it \"an absolute tragedy\" and said it raised a wider discussion about the nation's housing crisis. The 92-room hostel was known to house residents from vulnerable and marginalised communities - including those on welfare and disability pensions-  as well as workers from a nearby hospital. Residents who survived said the blaze had begun shortly after midnight local time, (12:30 GMT Monday).  Some had crawled through smoke to safety, while others were rescued from the roof by firefighters. One resident, Tala Sili, said he had jumped from his window to escape the fire which had started on the third floor. \"I was on the top floor and I couldn't go through the hallway because there was just too much smoke so I jumped out the window,\" he told national broadcaster RNZ.  \"It smelt like poison,\" he said. On Wednesday, police were given the all clear to send in a reconnaissance search team for the first time, after the building's rooftop collapse. \"This scene examination will be an extensive and methodical process, and we expect it to take some time - likely several days,\" Mr Bennett said. Loafers Lodge Hostel had been designated by New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development in 2011 as an emergency accommodation provider.  The government said on Tuesday that contract had ended. However the hostel is still part of a wider but informal network of temporary lodging.  Homelessness charities in the city have confirmed that some of their previous clients had found lodging there. New Zealand is in the midst of a housing crisis brought on sky-high private property prices and rents and a shortage of state housing. Official figures show that as of February more than 3,300 households live in emergency housing. ",
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        "title": "U.S. Consumer Communications Services Forecast, 2023\u20132027",
        "text": "IDC study quantifies US consumer communication services market and forecasts future subscription and revenue growth. Broadband is the most important service, with cable, fiber, and fixed wireless access networks expanding competition.",
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        "text": "A call by the home secretary to limit dependence on migrant workers was \"impossible\", a farmer said. Christine Snell runs a soft fruit farm in Herefordshire and said she was barely able to recruit 10% of the workers it needed during the pandemic. \"Had I relied on them to pick the crops, the crops would have just remained in the field,\" she said. Suella Braverman said on Monday there was \"no good reason\" the UK could not train its own fruit pickers. Addressing a conference in London, the home secretary argued there should be training for British fruit pickers, lorry drivers and butchers in a bid to bring down the reliance on migrant workers. Mrs Snell said her farm, Wind Hill, hires about 300 seasonal workers from all over the world each year for six months. One of her current workers is 25-year-old Nazife Ayrush from Bulgaria who does the job to fund her studies. \"We tried very hard in the pandemic to recruit locally. Out of the 300 we need, we were able to recruit about 35,\" Mrs Snell said. Of those, many soon left when other opportunities arose, Mrs Snell said. The horticulture industry has suffered labour shortages since the UK left the EU, made worse by the pandemic, and a campaign to recruit more UK-based workers for seasonal farm roles was scrapped in 2021. A government report in 2022 found British workers were \"not strongly attracted to roles in the food supply chain, particularly seasonal work\". It highlighted the need for more training and technology to address \"longstanding negative perceptions\" of working in the sector. Ms Braverman said the UK needed to be \"less dependent on low-skilled foreign labour\" but her speech divided politicians. Among those who disagreed with her was the Conservative MP for Wyre Forest, Mark Garnier. \"I don't see why we should be trying to persuade [kids] to do low-productivity, less aspirational jobs like fruit picking when they want to do better things,\" he added. Mr Garnier said it was important to distinguish between migrant workers and other forms of immigration. \"They're not coming in because they're hanging around going on the dole line, they're coming in because we need migrant workers to do the jobs,\" he said.  Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk",
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        "url": "https://blogs.idc.com/2023/01/18/ces-roundup-consumer-electronics-focus-on-experiences/",
        "title": "CES Roundup: Consumer Electronics Focus on Experiences",
        "text": "The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) highlighted a shift towards consumer experiences rather than just devices. IDC's new approach to consumer market research categorizes coverage based on lifestyle or experience instead of device silos. CES exhibits reflected eight categories of consumer experiences, including Entertainment, The Home, Personal Mobility, and Wellbeing. Smart home experiences were dominant, with smaller vendors focusing on specific products designed to integrate into the smart home. Wellbeing solutions have moved beyond fitness trackers to include health monitoring tools. Personal mobility items like motorized bikes and scooters were also displayed. The Future Consumer will impact not only how consumers engage but also how non-tech consumer brands reach consumer segments and businesses evolve and transform.",
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        "title": "Worldwide Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software Market Shares, 2022: Diligent Retains Market Lead",
        "text": "IDC study shows market share for security governance, risk, and compliance software in 2022. Established vendors dominate, but smaller players impact market. Market evolves with new capabilities driving investment.",
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        "url": "https://blogs.idc.com/2022/12/21/generative-ai-what-does-it-mean-in-the-enterprise/",
        "title": "Generative AI: What does it mean in the Enterprise?",
        "text": "ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, has recently demonstrated the capabilities of generative AI, which involves unsupervised and semi-supervised algorithms that enable computers to create new content using previously created content. However, the use of generative AI raises significant ethical and legal concerns, including copyright, trust and safety, privacy and consent around data, reproduction of biases and toxicity, generation of harmful content, sufficient security against third-party manipulation, accountability and transparency of processes. Furthermore, the emergence of generative AI will create new job roles such as prompt engineers. The best place to watch new and interesting generative AI use cases is in the start-up and scale-up space.",
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        "title": "U.S. Smart Home Monitoring and Security Device Forecast, 2023\u20132027",
        "text": "IDC predicts strong growth for the US smart home monitoring and security device market over the next five years due to high consumer demand for devices such as smart cameras, locks, and doorbells.",
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        "text": "A violinist who travelled from New York to perform in Dorset wowed the audience after he manged to continue his performance despite his \u00a324,000 bow breaking unexpectedly.  Stefan Jackiw was performing in Poole with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) on 10 May when it happened.  He was surprised as he says violin strings usually break, but bows do not.  The broken bow was immediately swapped for a different one and Mr Jackiw carried on as if nothing happened. He said he would remember his performance of the UK premiere of Gli\u00e8re's violin concerto at the Lighthouse \"for the rest of his life\".  \"At first I didn't quite understand what happened because this is something I had never experienced before,\" he said.  The bow was made by Francois Nicolas Voirin in Paris in the 19th Century and had been used by Mr Jackiw, 38, for 20 years and thousands of concerts.  After a speedy bow swap with violinist and orchestra leader Amyn Merchant, the show \u2014 under the baton of the BSO's chief conductor Kirill Karabits \u2014 went on. When asked how it felt to play with a different bow, Mr Jackiw said: \"It's like if you suddenly put on someone else's shoes and then go for a run. They are still shoes but they don't fit you quite the way they used to and they feel very foreign. \"But I got through it and I believe this unexpected episode kind of gave the whole performance some sort of joyful spontaneity.\" Dougie Scarfe, the chief executive of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, said it was \"an incredible thing to see\".  \"For something really dramatic to happen and without saying a word to collect and carry on and to perform extraordinarily well under any circumstances was really special,\" Mr Scarfe added.  It is not known why the bow broke but it is being mended and will soon be returned to Mr Jackiw.  Follow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.",
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        "url": "https://blogs.idc.com/2023/05/19/recent-strides-new-use-cases-for-generative-ai-in-security-analytics/",
        "title": "Recent Strides: New Use Cases for Generative AI in Security Analytics",
        "text": "AI-enabled security platforms use deep data processing to detect and remediate threats. Machine learning has been used for over a decade for behavioral analysis and anomaly detection. Generative AI is being used for tasks like translation, report generation, and incident response. However, the cost of AI may be a barrier for some organizations and models must be trained with accurate data to avoid bias. Vendors must also protect the data used to train models and regularly check for model drift. Join a webinar on May 31st to learn more about generative AI in security.",
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        "text": "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 28 April and 5 May. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here. Please also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly. Conditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions. Please ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice). In contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide. However, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News. At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law. You can find more information here. All photos are subject to copyright.",
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    {
        "url": "https://blogs.idc.com/2023/04/05/five-levers-for-scaling-the-digital-business/",
        "title": "Five Levers for Scaling the Digital Business",
        "text": "IDC's research on digital transformation reveals that organizations are now transitioning to the digital business era, with a focus on sustainable growth built on digital-first strategies. To operate their digital businesses at scale, organizations must optimize technology investments, leverage existing talent through automation, shift investment focus to customer data management, reduce the time it takes to turn data into decisions, and partner with technology suppliers to address new trust requirements. These are critical business agenda items for the coming year.",
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