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...It’s all a bit of [a] political game,” he said....
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...It is possible that Hunter’s new term, adapted from the Chinese xi nao, meaning “to wash the brain”, was actually a product of briefings at Langley (having worked for its forerunner, Hunter kept close ties...
...“The blame game will start now. Remember MPs were begging us to save businesses in their communities....
...In a primary school in Plymouth, England, children sit across from Nao, a humanoid robot that is conducting an educational game using an electronic tablet....
...The lessons took the form of an educational game on an electronic “sandtray”, a large horizontal touchscreen....
...And is the game really worth the candle?...
...This week the NAO’s report concluded that the programme is late, the costs are escalating and that the gains may be illusory. Just as well it’s only a baby white elephant....
...NAO figures suggest the bulk of central government spending on outsourcing goes to pay for IT, facilities management and professional services....
...Researchers in Israel have also used Nao to tell stories to kindergarten children....
...Mr Grenfell said the CMA was pushing hard against companies under investigation who tried to “game the system and procrastinate without merit”....
...The NAO said that monitoring of tax reliefs was “not yet systematic or proportionate to their value or the risks they carry”....
...Nor can these internet-of-things things jump up, balance on one leg and recognise human emotions like Aldebaran’s pint-sized humanoid robot, Nao , can....
...According to the NAO report: The Department devised an allocation policy that was intended to introduce a core, stable base of long-term investors who would be supportive of the business over the longer...
...“The NAO found drops in checks for illegal migrants and criminal activity because of the home secretary’s irresponsible decision to cut 500 Border Force staff before the Olympics,” Ms Cooper said....
...Financial management and IT skills have also been found wanting, most recently in the NAO probe into Universal Credit....
...It’s that problem which means Green sees solving the moral hazard problem as the ultimate end game....
...“The department underestimated the complexity of the task and lacked the necessary capacity in its finance function,” the NAO said....
...Mr Alexander said it would examine how the government could “sharpen [its] game, learning from the best strategic central finance functions in the corporate world”....
...Double the number of trials were disrupted – because interpreters could not be supplied – in the first quarter of 2012 than in the same period the year before, the NAO report found....
...Amyas Morse, the NAO’s comptroller and auditor-general, told the committee he found it “very surprising” that these figures were being offered to the committee before verification....
...Aldebaran has already developed a small, 60cm-tall robot called Nao, which can talk, dance, play card games and football, and learn to display emotion....
...The NAO said there was also a risk that the £2.1bn budget of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Locog) was under pressure....
...The NAO confirmed it had not examined the agreement. Westfield Stratford City opened on Tuesday, with 95 per cent of the centre let....
...It was an attractive message for tax directors, recalled ICI’s Mr Gillett: “We started talking to each other and stopped playing games.”...
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