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15 Oct
With voter ID plans criticised, what election technology alternatives are there?
Members of the public may soon be required to show a form of ID, such as a driving licence or passport before being able to vote in a UK general or local election.
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14 Oct
Zeynep Tufekci: Get a red team to ensure AI is ethical
In cybersecurity, red team professionals are tasked with finding vulnerabilities before they become a problem.
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11 Oct
Smile and wave: The global race to biometric adoption
Despite the prediction that the global biometrics market will grow to over $24 billion by 2023, only 30% of that growth market will come from North America.
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10 Oct
World Mental Health Day: The impact of “always on” technology on employee mental health
Today is World Mental Health Day, a day promoting mental health education and awareness.
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9 Oct
Ecuador is in serious need of proper data protection laws following massive breach
In an era when some of the largest corporations in the world have failed to properly secure the personal data of billions of people, lawmakers have become keen to push legislation aimed at giving consumers greater control over their personal data.
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8 Oct
Could a record-breaking Facebook GDPR fine do “more harm than good”?
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has concluded its investigation into Facebook’s WhatsApp, with the tech giants accused of breaching the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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8 Oct
The future feeling economy: “If humans want jobs, they better get good at feeling”
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) means that future in-demand skills will be decreasingly technical and increasingly emotive, creating a “feeling economy”, according to research.
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7 Oct
Mikko Hyppönen: Smart devices are “IT asbestos”
The proliferation of “stupid” internet-connected smart devices will be the “IT asbestos of the future”, cybersecurity expert Mikko Hyppönen has warned.
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4 Oct
5G the biggest future cybersecurity threat, warns Trend Micro researcher
5G will create the biggest future cybersecurity threat according to Rik Ferguson, vice president of security research at Trend Micro.
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3 Oct
Tom Van de Wiele Q&A: Reflections of a red teamer
Tom Van de Wiele gets paid to break into a company and steal their secrets.
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1 Oct
Pope Francis on artificial intelligence: Does it really risk “barbarism”?
At The Common Good in the Digital Age conference last weekend, Pope Francis warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could, if unchecked by ethics, become “an enemy of the common good”.
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30 Sep
Norwegian Refugee Council: The importance of internet and tech training for displaced people
During the Syrian crisis, people fleeing the conflict travelled to Turkey and on to Europe via the Greek islands.
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27 Sep
Huawei’s Guo Ping: “R&D collaboration benefits both Huawei and the UK”
Huawei rotating chairman Guo Ping doesn’t give interviews often, so when a small group of journalists from UK publications, including Verdict, were given the chance to ask him questions at a media roundtable in Shenzhen, China, it was a rare and valuable opportunity to hear the thoughts of one of the Chinese tech giant’s most
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26 Sep
Boris Johnson’s bizarre guide to the future where tech reigns supreme
At the United Nations in New York, prime minister Boris Johnson used his inaugural address to provide an eyebrow-raising glimpse of the future, one where technology reigns supreme.
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24 Sep
EU’s right to be forgotten ruling leaves questions unanswered
The EU’s top court has ruled in favour of tech giant Google in a landmark case about the ‘right to be forgotten’, but privacy and legal experts have warned the issue has not been fully resolved.
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23 Sep
Your cloud backup is run like a Tesla – what you need is an Uber
The data centre has outlived its name.
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20 Sep
Wearable medical devices: Ungluing the fact from the fiction
The wearable tech market is currently worth over $50bn, having more than doubled in size since 2014.
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19 Sep
Listening to nature: How Rainforest Connection is using Huawei AI to combat illegal logging
It’s unusual for a nature soundscape to kick off any talk at a conference, much less at a tech conference held by Chinese giant Huawei.
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18 Sep
AWS Transformation Day: 4 tips for successful cloud projects
The benefits of working in the cloud – from improved productivity to reduced costs – are well known by enterprises.
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17 Sep
The business of authentication: How Auth0 is preparing for the future of logging in
Logging on to a website is a process that many would not give a second thought.
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16 Sep
Ecuador data breach exposes 21 million records, Julian Assange included
Researchers have uncovered a large data breach thought to impact the majority of the population of Ecuador, including records belonging to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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16 Sep
How technology has the power to disrupt the music industry
Historically, the relationship between technology and the music industry has been a complex one.
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13 Sep
Inside HPE’s Technology Renewal Centre, its base in the war on e-waste
Some 50 million tonnes of electrical waste (e-waste) is discarded each year.
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12 Sep
281 arrests in BEC crackdown as FBI reveals $26bn lost to scammers
Law enforcement officials have arrested 281 individuals for allegedly engaging in business email compromise scams in a significant operation spanning across ten countries.
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10 Sep
Tech industry reacts to Brexit latest: ‘Give us certainty’
Parliament is prorogued, the House of Commons speaker is stepping down and prime minister Boris Johnson has lost six votes in as many days.
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9 Sep
Taleemabad: The app spreading education across Pakistan
In Pakistan, 51% of people are expected to own smartphones by 2020, but 48% of children cannot read a simple sentence by the time they leave primary education.
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6 Sep
Have you heard the Amazon is on fire? The power of social media in awareness raising
Forest fires happen annually in the Amazon as a result of forest life cycles, but this year the Amazon rainforest is burning at 84% the rate it did last year, according to the Brazilian Space Agency.
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5 Sep
@Boris Johnson has left the group: WhatsApp in Westminster
From fake news to Facebook, WhatsApp has attracted the media spotlight for a number of reasons.
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5 Sep
The State of Open Banking: Despite promise, significant challenges hold banks back
While financial service providers recognise the promise of open banking, few feel that they’re in the best position to take advantage of it.
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5 Sep
Apollo 15’s Al Worden on Mars, space race 2.0 and astronaut humour
Just 24 people have flown to the Moon, and Colonel Al Worden is one of them.