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Tech boss ‘proud’ to be working with space agencies as astronauts begin six-month mission Four astronauts on board Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft have successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month mission. Frenchman Thomas Pesquet is the first European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut to fly in the billionaire tech entrepreneur’s …

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Why not applaud the explosion of literacy in texts and posts? Better to welcome rather than vilify a tool that can play a part in learning I heard you on the radio the other day, explaining why you thought the proposed European Super League was a bad idea. I must say I was surprised, as …

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Readers on the row over text messages between James Dyson and Boris Johnson about a tax waiver for people coming to Britain to work on ventilators Gaby Hinsliff jokes about patriotism moving “in mysterious ways”, with the “great British patriot” James Dyson taking his “clean out of the country” (A lot of people pitched in …

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Cryptocurrency falls below $50,000 as White House looks to bring levy on investment gains into line with income taxes Speculators in Bitcoin have been left nursing heavy losses after reports Joe Biden is planning to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans to tackle inequality and finance trillions of dollars in higher social spending. The cryptocurrency …

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A silly and dated new attempt to transport the classic fighting game to the big screen is a late-night drunk watch at best Configuring one’s expectations before settling down to watch the latest big (and small) screen adaptation of Mortal Kombat is something of a process. The largely wretched game-to-movie subgenre carries with it little-to-no …

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I was a pupil of Bill Broderick, at the Royal Liberty school, where I enjoyed his maths lessons. From somewhere, he acquired a stock of ancient mechanical calculators, so old that you had to manually turn wheels to set each individual number – but we loved them. And in a school where the rod was …

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London’s high court allowing Wright to pursue operator-publisher of bitcoin.org over what he says is copyright infringement An Australian computer scientist who claims he created bitcoin is taking legal action in the United Kingdom, which could force the court to rule on whether he is indeed the cryptocurrency’s inventor. London’s high court this week allowed …

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Sudhir Breaks the Internet considers the ethical and practical dilemmas underpinning our online lives. Plus: Slow Burn returns, considering the events and aftermath of the Iraq war Sudhir Breaks the InternetSudhir Venkatesh boasts an impressive CV, having worked for the FBI, Facebook and Twitter. He is also a sociologist, meaning that he’s able to look …

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Jeremy Fleming to say UK must ‘develop sovereign technologies’ and work with allies to ‘build better cyber-defences’ Britain and its allies face a “moment of reckoning” in which secure encryption and other future technologies may no longer be “shaped and controlled by the west”, according to the head of the spy agency GCHQ. In a …

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Moxie Marlinspike accuses surveillance firm of being ‘linked to persecution’ around the world The CEO of the messaging app Signal claims to have hacked the phone cracking tools used by police in Britain and around the world to extract information from seized devices. In an online post, Moxie Marlinspike, the security researcher who founded Signal …

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