Defying technology failures, skittish lawyers, and power outages, a new episode of "The Other News" aired every Thursday evening at seven-thirty for the next twelve weeks.
Tara Brach relates the anecdote of how pilot Chuck Yeager inadvertently hit on a solution to technology failures when, on a test flight, he was knocked unconscious.
However, a more fundamental change like switching to security pass voting would require House of Commons approval, and the preparatory studies did identify some risks, such as MPs using the pass of another MP to vote, and "potential technology failures".
He pointed to a United States Defense Department directive issued in November that banned use of lethal force by fully autonomous weapons for up to 10 years, unless specifically authorized by senior officials, and that identified possible technology failures.
The judges highly commended the entries of Barclays and UBS (Libor-rigging), Standard Chartered (alleged sanctions-busting) and Royal Bank of Scotland (technology failures), but they still came out hailing a clear winner.
"We have learned from past technology failures that large projects are doomed but breaking down projects into bite-size pieces often works better," says Yodit Stanton, founder and CEO of OpenSensor.io.
