The veteran US pilot is set to become the oldest woman in space – the only snag is she has to go with the Amazon billionaire You have to feel for the American pilot Wally Funk. You would sympathise with anyone with that name, but she has had a particularly mixed week. On one hand, …
Hack closes Swedish grocery stores as head of targeted software supplier Kaseya says it is preparing a patch Businesses across the US rushed on Saturday to contain a ransomware attack that paralyzed computer networks around the world, a situation complicated in the US by offices being lightly staffed at the start of the Fourth of …
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Radio 4 series on Britney Spears’s troubles and Elon Musk’s space ambitions highlight society’s double standards Pieces of Britney (Radio 4) | BBC SoundsElon Musk: The Evening Rocket (Radio 4) | BBC SoundsHuman Resources Broccoli Productions | SpotifyThe Essay: Caribbean Voices (Radio 3) | BBC SoundsThe Kindness Experiment (Radio 4) | BBC Sounds Britney Spears …
The computer restoration of this masterpiece illustrates both the benefits and the dangers of AI In the late 1970s I lived and worked briefly in the Netherlands. Often, on Sundays, I would travel to Amsterdam, go to the morning concert in the Spiegelzaal of the Concertgebouw, and afterwards walk over to the Rijksmuseum, Holland’s national …
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Nissan’s ‘gigafactory’ in Sunderland must be the first of many sites if the UK is to compete in the electric vehicle era The British government’s £100m-plus commitment to secure Nissan’s battery gigafactory for Sunderland has been like gadget-shopping on Amazon writ large: splurging on some new technology that has suddenly become essential – and then …
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Internet cons have surged in the Covid crisis, with some victims left with little recourse to recover cash In early May, James Evans* met a man on the dating app Grindr. The man, who said his name was David, was friendly and chatty. “It started off as a normal conversation,” says Evans. “We moved to …
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As he hands over top job at Amazon, Bezos will remain largest shareholder and ‘has never had more energy’ A quarter of a century after he founded Amazon in a Seattle garage, Jeff Bezos is preparing to loosen his grip on his $1.7tn (£1.2tn) company. Few employees in the sphere conservatories at Amazon’s sprawling Seattle …
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The elevation of the man behind the Cloud while Jeff Bezos relinquishes day-to-day control, comes at a critical time for Amazon Andy Jassy made a powerful – and painful – first impression on the billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos soon after he joined the then start-up bookseller in 1997. During a rambunctious game of “broomball” …
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The US cybersecurity agency said it was investigating the attack after an incident at the Miami-based IT firm Kaseya Hundreds of American businesses have been hit by a ransomware attack ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to the cybersecurity company Huntress Labs. Huntress Labs said on Friday that 200 American businesses were …
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Study website made claims including warmer temperatures ‘could lead to healthier outdoor lifestyles’ The BBC has removed an educational page laying out the “benefits” of climate change after a furious online reaction. BBC Bitesize, its website for schoolchildren, claimed warmer temperatures “could lead to healthier outdoor lifestyles” and that a benefit of climate change could …
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