The Dutch Ministry of Defense on May 28 informed the House of Representatives about the progress of the Walrus-class submarines replacement program. It was followed by the first official communication on the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) future submarine program since December 2019 and the release of the "B-Letter".
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5/31/21
1/16/21
Germany: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party chooses new leader
Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right party on Saturday chose Armin Laschet, the pragmatic governor of Germany's most populous state, as its new leader — sending a signal of continuity months before an election in which voters will decide who becomes the new chancellor.
Laschet defeated Friedrich Merz, a conservative and one-time Merkel rival, at an online convention of the Christian Democratic Union. Laschet won 521 votes to Merz's 466. A third candidate, prominent legislator Norbert Roettgen, was eliminated in a first round of voting.
Saturday's vote isn't the final word on who will run as the centre-right candidate for chancellor in Germany's Sept. 26 election, but Laschet will either run for chancellor or will have a big say in who does.
Read more at: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party chooses new leader | CBC News
Laschet defeated Friedrich Merz, a conservative and one-time Merkel rival, at an online convention of the Christian Democratic Union. Laschet won 521 votes to Merz's 466. A third candidate, prominent legislator Norbert Roettgen, was eliminated in a first round of voting.
Saturday's vote isn't the final word on who will run as the centre-right candidate for chancellor in Germany's Sept. 26 election, but Laschet will either run for chancellor or will have a big say in who does.
Read more at: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party chooses new leader | CBC News
2/18/17
Technology: Lawyers could be the next profession to be replaced by computers - by Dan Mangan
Technology is often for destroying traditional working-class jobs in sectors like manufacturing and retail.
But blue collar jobs aren't the only ones at risk.
The legal profession — tradition-bound and labor-heavy — is on the cusp of a transformation in which artificial-intelligence platforms dramatically affect how legal work gets done.
Those platforms will mine documents for evidence that will be useful in litigation, to review and create contracts, raise red flags within companies to identify potential fraud and other misconduct or do legal research and perform due diligence before corporate acquisitions.
Those are all tasks that — for the moment at least — are largely the responsibility of flesh-and-blood attorneys.
Increasing automation of the legal industry promises to increase efficiency and save clients money, but could also cut jobs in the sector as the technology becomes responsible for tasks currently performed by humans.
Advocates of AI, however, argue there could actually be an increase in the sector's labor force as the technology drives costs down and makes legal services more affordable to greater numbers of people.
"It's like the beginning of the beginning of the beginning," said Noory Bechor, CEO of LawGeex, a leading AI-powered platform for legal contract review.
"Legal, right now, I think is in the place that other industries were 10 and 15 years ago, like travel," he said.
Read more: Lawyers could be the next profession to be replaced by computers
But blue collar jobs aren't the only ones at risk.
The legal profession — tradition-bound and labor-heavy — is on the cusp of a transformation in which artificial-intelligence platforms dramatically affect how legal work gets done.
Those platforms will mine documents for evidence that will be useful in litigation, to review and create contracts, raise red flags within companies to identify potential fraud and other misconduct or do legal research and perform due diligence before corporate acquisitions.
Those are all tasks that — for the moment at least — are largely the responsibility of flesh-and-blood attorneys.
Increasing automation of the legal industry promises to increase efficiency and save clients money, but could also cut jobs in the sector as the technology becomes responsible for tasks currently performed by humans.
Advocates of AI, however, argue there could actually be an increase in the sector's labor force as the technology drives costs down and makes legal services more affordable to greater numbers of people.
"It's like the beginning of the beginning of the beginning," said Noory Bechor, CEO of LawGeex, a leading AI-powered platform for legal contract review.
"Legal, right now, I think is in the place that other industries were 10 and 15 years ago, like travel," he said.
Read more: Lawyers could be the next profession to be replaced by computers
7/11/16
Britain: Theresa May Likely To Be U.K.'s Second Female Prime Minister After Only Rival Quits Race
U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May
looks set to become Britain’s second female prime minister after Andrea
Leadsom, the energy minister and rival for the Conservative leadership,
dropped out of the race to succeed David Cameron.
Speaking outside her home on Monday, Leadsom said: “The referendum result demonstrated a clear desire for change. Strong leadership is needed urgently to begin the work of withdrawing from the European Union.”
She said that the nine-week leadership campaign ahead was not in the best interests of the country, and that “we now need a new prime minister in place as soon as possible.”
And Leadsom added that her support among Conservative MPs was not high enough “to lead a strong and stable government should I win the leadership election.”
Leadsom had secured the support of 84 MPs in a secret ballot, which put her in second place behind May, who had the backing of 199. The pair had been set to battle it out for the top job in a nine-week campaign before a vote among the party membership.
Whether May now automatically takes the leadership, and thus takes over from Cameron as prime minister, is expected to be formally confirmed this afternoon. Britain's only female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was in office from 1979 until 1990.
Graham Brady, the chairman of the party’s 1922 committee that runs the leadership election, told reporters on Monday that May was the “only remaining candidate” but that he needed agreement from the party’s board before he would be able to “formally confirm” if she had won as a result of Leadsom’s decision.
Leadsom was the only remaining candidate who had backed a “Brexit” vote in Britain’s EU referendum, and many on the Euroskeptic right of the Conservative party and in the anti-EU U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) had hoped she would win, amid delays on the formal implementation of the U.K.’s departure from the EU.
Read more: Theresa May Likely To Be U.K.'s Second Female Prime Minister After Only Rival Quits Race
Speaking outside her home on Monday, Leadsom said: “The referendum result demonstrated a clear desire for change. Strong leadership is needed urgently to begin the work of withdrawing from the European Union.”
She said that the nine-week leadership campaign ahead was not in the best interests of the country, and that “we now need a new prime minister in place as soon as possible.”
And Leadsom added that her support among Conservative MPs was not high enough “to lead a strong and stable government should I win the leadership election.”
Leadsom had secured the support of 84 MPs in a secret ballot, which put her in second place behind May, who had the backing of 199. The pair had been set to battle it out for the top job in a nine-week campaign before a vote among the party membership.
Whether May now automatically takes the leadership, and thus takes over from Cameron as prime minister, is expected to be formally confirmed this afternoon. Britain's only female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was in office from 1979 until 1990.
Graham Brady, the chairman of the party’s 1922 committee that runs the leadership election, told reporters on Monday that May was the “only remaining candidate” but that he needed agreement from the party’s board before he would be able to “formally confirm” if she had won as a result of Leadsom’s decision.
Leadsom was the only remaining candidate who had backed a “Brexit” vote in Britain’s EU referendum, and many on the Euroskeptic right of the Conservative party and in the anti-EU U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) had hoped she would win, amid delays on the formal implementation of the U.K.’s departure from the EU.
Read more: Theresa May Likely To Be U.K.'s Second Female Prime Minister After Only Rival Quits Race
12/13/12
Aircraft Industry: Canada looks for F-35 alternatives and Eurofighter is one of the contendors
Canada scrapped a controversial sole-source plan to buy F-35 jets from Lockheed Martin Corp., saying it will now evaluate all available options for acquiring new fighters.
The announcement on Dec. 12 is another challenge for the F-35, which has been hit by cost overruns and delays and at $396 billion is the costliest program in Pentagon procurement history. Canada’s Conservative government, stressing it could still buy the F-35 if it turns out to be the best option, will set up an independent panel to look at replacements for an aging fleet of CF-18 fighters, which are due to go out of service by 2020.
Ottawa said it would give the new independent panel a series of detailed guidelines to help it evaluate the contenders. Government sources said the main contenders for the Canadian fighter-jet order now are the F-35, Boeing Co’s F-18 Super Hornet and the EADS Eurofighter.
Read more: ECONOMICS - Canada looks for F-35 alternatives
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Ottawa said it would give the new independent panel a series of detailed guidelines to help it evaluate the contenders. Government sources said the main contenders for the Canadian fighter-jet order now are the F-35, Boeing Co’s F-18 Super Hornet and the EADS Eurofighter.
Read more: ECONOMICS - Canada looks for F-35 alternatives
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