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Belfast Telegraph
6 days ago
- Business
- Belfast Telegraph
Up to 80 new jobs across Northern Ireland at private GP provider
Duality Healthcare has announced £4.5m of investment after completing a funding round A private GP provider has announced a £4.5m investment that could create up to 80 new jobs across NI. Duality Healthcare has announced it's completed a round of investment, and aims to use the new funds to expand its number of clinics in Northern Ireland. There are currently locations in Newry, Ballymena and Omagh, with plans to open more this year and in 2026. Duality Healthcare's John McEvoy and Dr Declan Morgan News Catch Up - Thursday 7th August The company also aims to expand its 'virtual care service across the UK' while also investing 'in digital systems to enhance patient experience and clinical efficiency.' The 80 new roles are planned to be in 'clinical, digital and operational roles in Northern Ireland'. Duality is NI's largest private GP service, and was founded in 2023 by Dr Declan Morgan and John McEvoy. It advertises access to its GPs within 24 hours of contact, same-day urgent care, ultrasound and echocardiogram scans and ear care services. Duality Healthcare has announced £4.5m of investment after completing a funding round It describes its mission as 'delivering convenient, high-quality, affordable care to patients across Northern Ireland and beyond with an aim to complement and alleviate pressures on NHS capacity and resources'. John McEvoy, executive chairman and co-founder, said: 'Securing this investment is a significant milestone for our team and a strong endorsement of our vision to provide high-quality, patient-centred healthcare that is affordable and accessible to everyone in Northern Ireland. 'This investment follows a period of rapid growth and with our expansion plans and commitment to innovation, we're proud to be creating new jobs, supporting local communities, and raising the bar for private primary care services in Northern Ireland'.
NZ Herald
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Ceramic artist Lucy Hunter exhibits works created during Whanganui residency
Ceramic artist Lucy Hunter's array of works, created during a residency where she solely focused on expressing her creativity through clay, go on show in Whanganui this week. The Rick Rudd Foundation awarded Hunter the Glasgow Street Arts Centre Artist in Residence Programme Award 2024 for her entry, Duality, in
Graziadaily
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Graziadaily
Who Is Kelly Osbourne's Fiancé Sid Wilson?
It's the ultimate friends to lovers' story. Kelly Osbourne and Sid Wilson are officially engaged after the American DJ and keyboardist got down on one knee at Ozzy Osbourne's final Black Sabbath show on 5 July. Proposing in front of Osbourne's family – dad Ozzy and mum Sharon – backstage, Wilson said, 'Kelly, you know I love you more than anything in the world.' He was then momentarily interrupted by Ozzy who joked, 'F**k off. You're not marrying my daughter!' After the laughter died down Wilson continued, 'Nothing would make me happier than spending the rest of my life with you. So, in front of your family and all of our friends, Kelly, will you marry me?' Luckily she said yes (obviously!), and the rest is history... The ring - designed by Sid Wilson and Pascal Mouawad - is said to be inspired by Kelly's nickname 'Honeybee' and crafted from 18k yellow gold and crowned with a 2.5 carat round diamond. Kelly Osbourne and Sid Wilson are proud parents to son Sidney ©Photo by Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images Born Sidney George Wilson, Sid Wilson is the turntablist aka DJ for the heavy metal band Slipknot – known for the songs Wait and Bleed , Spit It Out and Duality among others. Within Slipknot, Wilson is known as #0 and he contributes the background horror noises and effects to the music, all whilst wearing an iconic gas mask which has taken on many forms over the years since he joined the band in 1997. Wilson also tours as DJ Starscream, named after the Transformers character, and he is currently signed to the Japanese record label N2O Records with which he has released the song HAKAI (Destroy) . In addition, Wilson has a solo band called Sid of which he is the lead singer. The band released their debut album Sid in 2011. Wilson was born on 20 January 1977, making him 48 years old – eight years older than Kelly – and a Capricorn. Here sure does. You can follow him @sidthe3rd As part of Slipknot, Sid Wilson often dons a gas mask. Pictured here with Kelly Osbourne at the 66th Grammy Awards in February 2024 ©Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Wilson and Osbourne originally met at the 1999 Ozzfest, at which Slipknot were performing. At first merely good friends, the pair's relationship was said to turn romantic and the end of 2021/beginning of 2022. After welcoming their son Sidney – naturally named after his famous father - in late 2022, Wilson and Osbourne got engaged on 6 July 2025 at Ozzy's final concert with Black Sabbath. Wilson and Osbourne's engagement marks the TV personality's third as she was previously engaged to Chef Matthew Mosshart from 2013-2014 and British model Luke Worrall from 2009-2010. Daisy Hall is a News and Entertainment writer on Grazia, specialising in TV and film meaning that you can count on Daisy for the latest (and best) recommendations
Business Wire
19-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Duality AI Partners with CoVar on DARPA Program to Define Ethical Standards for Future Military Autonomous Systems
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Duality AI, the company behind Falcon, a leading digital twin simulation platform, today announced its partnership with CoVar to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV) program. The timely goal of ASIMOV is to establish a common framework to evaluate the ethical alignment of future autonomous systems with established U.S. military operational values, including military ethics, the laws of war, and the commander's intent. "Falcon's capability to ingest knowledge graphs and procedurally generate simulation-ready scenarios is vital for a framework designed to evaluate the ethical readiness of an autonomous system,' says Dr. Pete Torrione, CTO of CoVar. ASIMOV's mission is to define a way for assessing the ethical challenges posed by AI and autonomous system decision-making in complex scenarios by creating a robust, quantitative framework for evaluating their ethical readiness. As these systems rapidly transition from research labs into real-world deployment, the need for such a framework is quickly becoming imperative. To address this challenge, the program incorporates an Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) advisory group that will aid in establishing a common language for analyzing the ethical performance of autonomous systems. Duality AI joins CoVar's multidisciplinary team as a key contributor to their ethical testing infrastructure for autonomous systems called GEARS or Gauging Ethical Autonomous Reliable Systems. Vital to GEAR's success is Falcon's capability to simulate autonomous system performance with precision, and output comprehensive data needed to analyze the efficacy of its actions against ground truth knowledge. To support these efforts, Duality is providing high-fidelity digital twins of environments, systems, and agents—both human and vehicular—enabling the creation of a wide range of operationally relevant scenarios. Falcon's seamless integration with autonomous system software allows for in-the-loop simulations, driven by synthetic data streaming from multi-modal virtual sensors including electro-optical, IR, LiDAR, and RADAR. Additionally, Falcon's flexibility to procedurally create environments and scenarios from diverse input sources is a key feature for the collaboration. 'Falcon will let us rapidly create and simulate a large variety of required ethical scenarios,' says Dr. Pete Torrione, CTO of CoVar. 'With GEARS we are defining a new mathematics of ethics, where ethical scenarios and commander's intent are represented by knowledge graphs. Falcon's capability to ingest these graphs and procedurally generate simulation-ready scenarios is vital for a framework designed to evaluate the ethical readiness of an autonomous system.' Since its founding, Duality has been helping customers leverage digital twin simulation as the safe, ethical, and viable way for AI and autonomous systems to transition from the lab into the real world. 'We're thrilled to be partnering with CoVar on the ASIMOV program,' says Apurva Shah, CEO of Duality AI. 'As a leader in developing responsible AI/ML solutions, CoVar is the ideal partner with whom to advance one of our main goals: helping to transition AI into the real world safely, responsibly, and reliably. During a time of justifiable apprehension about the increasing role of AI in our world, leveraging Falcon towards evolving more ethical AI is a critical endeavor and we're honored to partner with CoVar and contribute to this important program.' With ASIMOV, Duality joins a team of professors of Ethics, widely published authors in the fields of Ethics and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Trust, engineers, and ethicists with combat command experience. Through the learnings from this program, the GEARS quantitative approach will have a broader impact throughout the autonomy community. About Duality AI Duality AI is the software company behind the Falcon digital twin simulation platform. Organizations today are leveraging Falcon to help solve complex problems in AI, robotics, and smart system engineering. By bringing high-fidelity digital twins of environments and operating systems into Falcon, Duality's customers generate accurate data and predictive behavior modeling that enables them to deploy automated systems robustly and at scale. Duality's multidisciplinary team includes world-class engineers, simulation specialists, AI/ML experts and award-winning technical artists with over 70 patents across robotics, simulation, and visualization. About CoVar CoVar has over ten years of experience innovating and implementing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) solutions for defense, industrial, commercial, and medical sectors. CoVar's research team of principal investigators are recognized subject matter experts in the field and lead teams capable of combining big-company reliability and traceability with small company agility and flexibility. The company has developed and delivered state-of-the-art implementations of advanced algorithms in easy-to-use software packages across multiple platforms and stacks. CoVar has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to provide end-to-end solutions that bring game-changing AI/ML technology to implemented software that reliably and effectively improve customer capability.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Duality AI Partners with CoVar on DARPA Program to Define Ethical Standards for Future Military Autonomous Systems
Teams will leverage digital twin simulation as part of a novel approach for benchmarking AI's ethical alignment with established ethics principles SAN MATEO, Calif., May 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Duality AI, the company behind Falcon, a leading digital twin simulation platform, today announced its partnership with CoVar to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV) program. The timely goal of ASIMOV is to establish a common framework to evaluate the ethical alignment of future autonomous systems with established U.S. military operational values, including military ethics, the laws of war, and the commander's intent. ASIMOV's mission is to define a way for assessing the ethical challenges posed by AI and autonomous system decision-making in complex scenarios by creating a robust, quantitative framework for evaluating their ethical readiness. As these systems rapidly transition from research labs into real-world deployment, the need for such a framework is quickly becoming imperative. To address this challenge, the program incorporates an Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) advisory group that will aid in establishing a common language for analyzing the ethical performance of autonomous systems. Duality AI joins CoVar's multidisciplinary team as a key contributor to their ethical testing infrastructure for autonomous systems called GEARS or Gauging Ethical Autonomous Reliable Systems. Vital to GEAR's success is Falcon's capability to simulate autonomous system performance with precision, and output comprehensive data needed to analyze the efficacy of its actions against ground truth knowledge. To support these efforts, Duality is providing high-fidelity digital twins of environments, systems, and agents—both human and vehicular—enabling the creation of a wide range of operationally relevant scenarios. Falcon's seamless integration with autonomous system software allows for in-the-loop simulations, driven by synthetic data streaming from multi-modal virtual sensors including electro-optical, IR, LiDAR, and RADAR. Additionally, Falcon's flexibility to procedurally create environments and scenarios from diverse input sources is a key feature for the collaboration. "Falcon will let us rapidly create and simulate a large variety of required ethical scenarios," says Dr. Pete Torrione, CTO of CoVar. "With GEARS we are defining a new mathematics of ethics, where ethical scenarios and commander's intent are represented by knowledge graphs. Falcon's capability to ingest these graphs and procedurally generate simulation-ready scenarios is vital for a framework designed to evaluate the ethical readiness of an autonomous system." Since its founding, Duality has been helping customers leverage digital twin simulation as the safe, ethical, and viable way for AI and autonomous systems to transition from the lab into the real world. "We're thrilled to be partnering with CoVar on the ASIMOV program," says Apurva Shah, CEO of Duality AI. "As a leader in developing responsible AI/ML solutions, CoVar is the ideal partner with whom to advance one of our main goals: helping to transition AI into the real world safely, responsibly, and reliably. During a time of justifiable apprehension about the increasing role of AI in our world, leveraging Falcon towards evolving more ethical AI is a critical endeavor and we're honored to partner with CoVar and contribute to this important program." With ASIMOV, Duality joins a team of professors of Ethics, widely published authors in the fields of Ethics and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Trust, engineers, and ethicists with combat command experience. Through the learnings from this program, the GEARS quantitative approach will have a broader impact throughout the autonomy community. About Duality AI Duality AI is the software company behind the Falcon digital twin simulation platform. Organizations today are leveraging Falcon to help solve complex problems in AI, robotics, and smart system engineering. By bringing high-fidelity digital twins of environments and operating systems into Falcon, Duality's customers generate accurate data and predictive behavior modeling that enables them to deploy automated systems robustly and at scale. Duality's multidisciplinary team includes world-class engineers, simulation specialists, AI/ML experts and award-winning technical artists with over 70 patents across robotics, simulation, and visualization. About CoVar CoVar has over ten years of experience innovating and implementing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) solutions for defense, industrial, commercial, and medical sectors. CoVar's research team of principal investigators are recognized subject matter experts in the field and lead teams capable of combining big-company reliability and traceability with small company agility and flexibility. The company has developed and delivered state-of-the-art implementations of advanced algorithms in easy-to-use software packages across multiple platforms and stacks. CoVar has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to provide end-to-end solutions that bring game-changing AI/ML technology to implemented software that reliably and effectively improve customer capability. View source version on Contacts Media Contact Mish Sukharevmish@
