Month: November 2021

Opportunities for business, health and the environment offered by superfast processors are huge – and so are the hurdles The technology behind everyday computers such as smartphones and laptops has revolutionised modern life, to the extent that our our day-to-day lives are unimaginable without it. But an alternative method of computing is advancing rapidly, and …

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As a former top civil servant has pointed out, private firms seem happy to let governments pick up the pieces when hackers strike Ciaran Martin is what is known in Whitehall as “a safe pair of hands”. In the 23 years he spent working there he held a number of senior roles within the Cabinet …

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Move comes as child safety campaigners express concern plans could shield abusers from detection The owner of Facebook and Instagram is delaying plans to encrypt users’ messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection. Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire has been under pressure to abandon its …

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The Biden administration has shown an early determination to tackle the power of Amazon, Google, Facebook and co. But is it already too late? When historians look back on this period, one of the things that they will find remarkable is that for a quarter of a century, the governments of western democracies slept peacefully …

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Dozen of motorists report error as company’s CEO, Elon Musk, apologises on Twitter Hundreds of Tesla drivers were locked out of their cars at the start of the weekend after the manufacturer’s mobile app suffered an outage – and dozens voiced their complaints on social media. Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, said on Friday that …

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Now that Alexa, Siri and Google have moved in, it’s only a matter of time before some of us are left out in the cold, says Emma Beddington I came into the kitchen recently to find my husband cradling our electricity smart meter with the kind of tender attention more usually directed to a new-born, …

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With so much film, TV, music, books, streaming, games and podcasts easily available and vying for our attention, how can we absorb it all? And should we even try, asks Anne Helen Petersen There was a moment, back in, oh, 2012, when I thought I’d be able to keep up with it all. And by …

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Owning a classic car doesn’t make you a little Englander or a climate change denier, writes Ian Allen Martin Rowson’s insertion of a Morris Traveller into a fossil fuel nightmare scene sparked my interest (Political cartoon, 12 November). Nostalgia is a powerful thing, but it is clearly recognised that it is about the past. The …

We Morris drivers are on board with renewables | Letter Read More »

Allowing 13-year-olds with a Junior account to use iPhone or Apple Watch ‘adds an extra layer of safety’ One of the fastest-growing banking apps is letting its teenage customers make contactless payments using their iPhone or Apple Watch. Revolut, which has almost 4 million users in Britain and more than 16 million globally, said this …

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The former Theranos CEO took the stand on Friday, marking a pivotal moment in the fraud case Government prosecutors in the trial of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes ended their case on Friday, capping off 11 weeks of testimony from witnesses detailing allegations of fraud against the founder. The Theranos saga has been widely covered since …

‘I didn’t know what to believe’: what 11 weeks of the Elizabeth Holmes trial has revealed Read More »