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3 Dec
Data analytics is rife in tennis, but could AI replace humans entirely?
A robot arm strikes a tennis ball, serving it at 220 miles per hour.
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2 Dec
Digital privacy after death: What happens to social media accounts when we die
People have chased immortality since ancient times.
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28 Nov
“We’re still very much at the early offset”: Can Open Banking fulfill its potential in 2020?
2019 was anticipated to be the year that open banking took off, with the introduction of a number of new regulations designed to make it easier for consumers to access a greater array of financial services, while improving security.
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27 Nov
Young people fuel dramatic last-minute surge in online voter registrations
Online voter registrations for the UK general election climbed dramatically in the two days prior to the deadline, with young people driving the vast majority of the surge.
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27 Nov
Who is responsible for cloud security? It’s a bit foggy, finds McAfee
UK businesses are steaming ahead to become cloud-only companies, but establishing who is responsible for cloud security in an organisation is struggling to keep pace.
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26 Nov
Safety, reliability and rigour will be key to making self-driving cars a virtual reality
Autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots and small-scale roll outs have been brought into the mainstream in recent years by high profile brands such as Uber and Google’s Waymo.
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25 Nov
Conservative manifesto: Technology pledges in full
The Conservative Party has published its 2019 manifesto, outlining its plans for the UK should it win the general election.
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25 Nov
Contract for the Web: Tim Berners-Lee launches plan to combat “digital dystopia”
The creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has launched a plan to combat what he describes as an emerging “digital dystopia” called the Contract for the Web.
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21 Nov
Labour manifesto: Technology pledges in full
The Labour Party has published its 2019 manifesto, outlining the party’s policies ahead of the general election.
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19 Nov
Arron Banks hacked: Leave.EU founder to take legal action against Twitter
The Twitter account of Leave.EU co-founder Arron Banks has been suspended following a hack that exposed the personal messages of the Brexit financier.
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18 Nov
A light recipe for the future of fish farming
Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, has confirmed today that it has introduced its underwater lighting solutions for fish farms into the South American market, partnering with Australis Seafoods in Chile after several years of development, as the main provider of aquaculture LED lighting for its salmon fisheries.
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18 Nov
Network challenges at the University of Cambridge: From connectivity to IoT cows
Being in charge of network infrastructure is never easy, particularly in education, but when you oversee a vast, federated network of colleges and departments such as at the University of Cambridge, it’s an immense challenge.
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15 Nov
Free broadband sounds great, but Labour needs to remember 5G
Today British voters woke up to the news that Labour is planning to provide every home and business with free, full-fibre broadband by 2030 if it wins the upcoming general election.
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15 Nov
We’d change AWS S3 bucket security if we had “a time machine”: AWS director
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) director has said that if the cloud provider had a “time machine” the company would take a different approach to the security of its most popular cloud product, AWS S3, to prevent customers from accidentally leaking data.
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14 Nov
Facebook deleted pro-vaccination adverts on political grounds, study finds
A landmark study into health-related advertising on Facebook has found that the social media giant has removed numerous adverts promoting vaccination on the grounds that they are political.
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13 Nov
How RFID technology is transforming the NFL
It’s been 12 years since the first time a National Football League (NFL) game took place on British soil.
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12 Nov
How PlatformE is fighting fast fashion with big data
Fast fashion, the lovechild of capitalism and ephemeral trends, has a big problem.
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12 Nov
Machines are less biased than people
We hear a lot these days about the potential dangers of “AI bias.” If a machine learning system is based upon a data set that is somehow biased by age, gender, race, ethnicity, income, education, geography, or some other factor, the system’s outputs will tend to reflect those biases.
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12 Nov
Labour cyberattack: Was a nation state behind the incident?
Who is behind the Labour cyberattack that saw the UK’s second biggest party hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that briefly slowed down campaigning efforts?
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8 Nov
STEM Day: How closing the skills gap benefits us all
Today is STEM Day, and according to STEM Learning, the current shortage of employees with STEM skills is costing UK businesses £1.5bn a year in recruitment.
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5 Nov
Graphene: From incremental innovation to disruptive design
Graphene layers were only first successfully extracted from graphite in 2004, but chances are graphene is already in your mobile phone, car, tennis racquet or the wings of an aircraft you’ve flow in.
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4 Nov
Researchers analyse tweets to predict loneliness
Estimated to affect around one in five adults in the United States, with young people more likely to be affected, the problem of loneliness is a public health issue that urgently needs addressing.
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1 Nov
How the threat of hacking looms over the 2020 election
With the UK bracing for a general election and campaigning ahead of the US 2020 presidential election now in full swing, the threat of election hacking is once more a key topic of conversation.
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31 Oct
Twitter bans political ads, but has bigger bots to fry
Twitter’s decision to ban all political adverts has been widely welcomed, but the prevalence of fake bot accounts will remain its biggest challenge in upcoming elections.
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30 Oct
NSO Group lawsuit exposes uncomfortable truth of 21st-century espionage
WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, raising questions around the complicated role the private sector plays in facilitating government surveillance and the dangers posed by its cyberweapons ending up in the wrong hands.
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30 Oct
Facebook agrees to pay £500k Cambridge Analytica fine
Social media giant Facebook has agreed to pay the UK’s data regulator a £500,000 fine for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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29 Oct
Georgia cyberattack has hallmarks of nation-state attack
The Georgia cyberattack that took more than 2,000 websites and a national TV station offline has the hallmarks of a nation-state attack, according to cybersecurity experts.
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28 Oct
Coaxial electrospinning: The 100 year-old manufacturing technique set to revolutionise medicine
Coaxial electrospinning, a century-old manufacturing technique, is finding a new lease of life in medical applications thanks to research by scientists at the University of Cincinnati.
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25 Oct
Dug Song of Duo Security on Cisco, cybersecurity and skateboarding
A former member of elite hacker group w00w00, Dug Song co-founded Duo Security in 2010 with Jon Oberheide, specialising in multi-factor authentication.
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24 Oct
Leading healthcare algorithm biased against black patients
A healthcare algorithm used to decide whether millions of US patients received access to a high-risk care management programme demonstrated “significant” racial bias against black patients.
