My father, John Owen, who has died aged 90, was among the electrical engineers who developed the electron microscope and later became a British and international standards officer. John was born in Liverpool and grew up in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, the son of Ethel (nee Grain), a teacher, and John Owen, a tailor’s cutter …
Threatening online messages to politicians should be taken seriously – but this move is misguided The aftermath of the horrific killing of Conservative MP David Amess should have been a moment for politicians and the public to unite in an effort to protect democracy. Instead, the discussion has been derailed by a push to ban …
Jeremy Fleming says ransomware is proliferating as it is ‘largely uncontested’ and highly profitable The head of the UK spy agency GCHQ has disclosed that the number of ransomware attacks on British institutions has doubled in the past year. Jeremy Fleming, the director of GCHQ, said locking files and data on a user’s computer and …
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Papers reveal struggle to tackle hate speech and reluctance to censor rightwing US news organisations Facebook has admitted that core parts of its platform appear hardwired for spreading misinformation and divisive content, according to a fresh wave of internal documents that showed the social media company struggled to contain hate speech in the developing world …
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Envision’s Sunderland plant produces batteries for the Nissan Leaf and other electric vehicles The Chinese owner of the UK’s only large-scale battery factory has revealed plans for a big expansion that will put the plant in Sunderland among the biggest electric vehicle facilities in Europe. Envision said annual capacity at the plant would eventually rise …
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US company sold 24,600 of the vehicles in September to outperform Renault’s Clio and Volkswagen’s Golf UK battery ‘gigafactory’ plans huge expansion as EV demand soars The Tesla Model 3 was the bestselling car across Europe in September, the first time a battery electric vehicle has topped the monthly sales charts in the region. Tesla …
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From Office Space to the Rakes’ 22 Grand Job, Guardian critics suggest culture to cope with the pressure, politics and crushing ennui of earning a living Fashions in workplace design have changed since Office Space. When Mike Judge released his cult comedy of unhappy software programmers in 1999 – two years before Ricky Gervais launched …
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Consumers were unable to book deliveries or amend existing orders in outage that started on Saturday Tesco’s website and app are up and running again after a hack, which left thousands of customers unable to shop online at the weekend. The outage, which meant customers were unable to unable to book deliveries or amend existing …
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Detective fiction tells a story pieced together by some clever person – and in a video game, that’s you In one of her best books, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie puts these words into the mouth of her least favourite character, Hercule Poirot: “Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The …
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The push for online regulation risks absolving the right of responsibility for the toxicity they continually stoke Every time a dramatic, unforeseen political event happens, there follows a left-field fixation that some out-of-control technology created it. Whenever this fear about big tech comes around we are told that something new, even more toxic, has infiltrated …
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