Month: June 2021

As the proportion of girls taking these subjects remains low, teachers reveal why they believe that is and what they’re doing about it Getting women into tech careers has never been more important, but teachers believe old-fashioned stereotypes about subjects such as design and technology and computer science put girls off choosing them at school. …

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Long-awaited decision allows information to continue to flow to and from Britain British data protection standards are “adequate”, the EU has ruled in a long-awaited decision that lets digital information continue to flow between the UK and the bloc. But Brussels warned Boris Johnson’s government against weakening UK standards. Failure to get a positive decision …

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Telco says 75% of population now able to access new technology and most regional communities welcome extra coverage Covid-19 conspiracy theories and protests did not prevent Telstra from ramping up its 5G network construction over the past year, with 75% of the population now able to access the new technology. In the past year, despite …

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It was more than seven months ago, but it still can’t say when I’ll get my money Can you please ask Hackney council to pay the £1,071 in council tax it owes me? It claims it can’t because it faced a big cyber-attack more than seven months ago. I moved out of the borough in …

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Faced with so much new music, major labels are using algorithms to hunt down tomorrow’s hits. Is this great news for rising stars – or the recipe for a bland new future? One lunchtime about three years ago, Hazel Savage and Aron Pettersson set a new piece of software running on a laptop then went …

‘A talent scout can’t go to 100 shows a night’ – how big data is choosing the next pop stars Read More »

FCA steps up oversight amid warning to consumers about platform Britain’s financial regulator has ordered Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, to stop all regulated activity and issued a warning to consumers about the platform, which is coming under growing scrutiny globally. In a notice dated 25 June, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) …

UK financial watchdog cracks down on cryptocurrency exchange Binance Read More »

Forget schools or a nice pub nearby. A good internet connection is a top priority. But not all properties are equal It used to be that demand for homes centred on the proximity to good schools, or how close they were to a nice restaurant or pub. Now, before they sign on the dotted line, …

Fast, reliable broadband … it’s now a key selling point for house hunters Read More »

Managerial hierarchies must learn the true lessons of the pandemic if they are to survive and thrive Pandemics, the historian Yuval Noah Harari has observed, have a way of accelerating history. Just ask the founders of Zoom. Only two years ago, we were all thinking that it would take at least another decade before video-conferencing …

Memo to corporate leaders post-Covid: the disruption to businesses has only just begun | John Naughton Read More »

They were sold as gadgets that meant you would never miss a delivery. But now doorbell cameras – from Amazon’s Ring to Google’s Nest – are recording our every move I have got a new doorbell. It’s brilliant. It should be; it cost £89. It’s a Ring video doorbell; you’ll have seen them around. There …

I spy: are smart doorbells creating a global surveillance network? Read More »

CMA will decide whether consumer law was broken by not taking sufficient action to protect shoppers Amazon and Google are to be investigated by the UK competition watchdog over concerns the tech companies have not done enough to tackle the widespread problem of fake reviews on their websites. The Competition and Markets Authority, which began …

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