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Snapshot of the jobs market by Recruitment and Employment Confederation finds there are fewer people available to fill vacancie s Employers in the UK are struggling to fill vacancies after the sharpest drop for more than a year in the number of available candidates, according to a report that points to more recruitment difficulties ahead once Brexit bites. Even before the potential restrictions on immigrants once the UK leaves the EU, firms are reporting skills shortages across a range of more than 60 roles, including engineers, IT specialists, care workers and accountants. City banks could move at least 9,000 jobs from UK due to Brexit   Read more The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) said its latest monthly snapshot of the jobs market found vacancies continued to rise in April for permanent and temporary staff, albeit at a  softer pace than in March , reaching their weakest levels for 16 months.

BlackBerry’s latest phone has a particular set of skills acquired over a very long career it was in about the third hour of using the new BlackBerry KeyOne, available this month for $549 unlocked, that I started to question my longtime preference for touchscreen keyboards. Because as I was pushing on the KeyOne’s tiny little buttons with the tips of my thumbs, I remembered why some people still have such an affinity for these things. It wasn’t that I was able to type faster with the BlackBerry’s keyboard (I wasn’t), or that I was more accurate with it (I still used autocorrect). It was that I  felt  like I was more productive when using it. I wasn’t wasting time tweeting nonsense or sending emoji in ephemeral messages. I was sending important emails, working with my colleagues in Slack, creating and completing to-do lists, and adding appointments to my calendar. I was Getting Shit Done. BLACKBERRY KEYONE SPECS 4.5-inch, 1620 x 1080, 3:2 LCD display ...

Translation has always been one of the most important applications of Facebook’s AI research. After all, the social network’s overarching goal is to “make the world more open and connected,” so the language barrier is an obvious obstacle. To help leap this hurdle, Facebook today announced a  novel method of machine learning translation  that the company says is nine times faster than rival systems. The work exists solely as research at the moment — it hasn’t yet been implemented in a Facebook product. But Facebook AI engineers Michael Auli and David Grangier tell  The Verge  this will likely happen further down the line. The social network already uses AI for things like automatically  translating status updates to other languages , but making the transition from lab to app always requires more work. “We’re currently talking with a product team to make this work in a Facebook environment,” says Grangier. “There are differences when moving from academ...