Why immutable buckets are a worthy risk management tool

Immutable buckets offer businesses benefits in terms of data compliance, backup, archiving and security

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Overclocker Claims X299 VRM Temperatures are a ‘Disaster,’ Limit Skylake-X Potential

According to one prominent member of the overclocking community, the VRM cooling on X299 motherboards isn't good enough to keep the boards stable -- and no overclocker should buy a board with just one 8-pin CPU power connector.

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States, Feds Vie to Set Testing Rules for Self-Driving Cars

Democrats, Republicans, states, and safety activists all want their say. All share the goal of doing more self-driving car testing in the US.

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ET Deals: 94% off the Ultimate Data Infrastructure Architect Bundle

If you want to understand how to manage and process massive amounts of data for businesses, government agencies, or non-profits, today's course and e-book bundle is right up your alley.

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This Crawling Robot Is Powered by Light

Researchers have developed a material that could make locomotion a much simpler affair. All this new polymer needs is a beam of light, and it gets going.

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Liberty gets go-ahead to challenge Snoopers’ Charter

Civil rights organisation Liberty has been given the go-ahead to challenge in the High Court controversial surveillance legislation it believes breaches UK citizens’ rights

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UK needs urgent response to online fraud, says NAO

Online fraud is the most commonly experienced crime in England and Wales and demands urgent response, a report by Parliament’s independent public spending watchdog has concluded

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NCSC rolls out four measures to boost public sector cyber security

Active Cyber Defence measures will immediately help to improve basic cyber security across UK business and government departments, says NCSC

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The second coming of private cloud: Righting the wrongs of previous deployments

The first generation of private cloud failed to hit the mark with enterprises, but things have improved

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Security Think Tank: Focus on high risk by automating low-risk patching

How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?

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Microsoft ‘Autopilot’ Management Tools to Debut in Fall Creators Update

Microsoft is adding a new set of Autopilot deployment tools and security systems to the Fall Creators Update.

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Nearly 25 Percent of Windows Users Will Switch to Mac Within 6 Months: Survey

A new survey is claiming that up to 25 percent of the PC market could switch to Apple within the next 6-24 months, but data from independent analysis firms doesn't back up that conclusion.

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Danish shipping giant Maersk recovering from major Petya cyber attack

Company confirms attack took down its IT system across multiple sites and business units, but has now been contained

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Windows 10 Has Halved Data Collection: Privacy Watchdog

French data watchdog CNIL has closed its investigation of Microsoft and Windows 10 after updates to the OS cut its telemetry gathering by 50 percent.

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Print management a UK public sector GDPR blind spot

Print and document management is a potential blind spot for the public sector when it comes to compliance with the GDPR, a survey has revealed

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Key lessons from ‘Petya’ ransomware attack

While the cyber security community is still working to understand the latest ransomware attack that has reportedly hit 60 countries, there are key lessons to be learned

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AI monitors NatWest communications to ensure advice is appropriate

NatWest is testing out artificial intelligence technology that listens to the conversations between its advisers and customers to help keep them compliant

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How Donald Trump has nudged French CIOs still further from US cloud storage

French CIOs are looking at alternatives to storing data with US-based suppliers

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Royal Society and British Academy call for data governance body

The Royal Society and the British Academy have jointly released a report urging the UK government to set up a public body to oversee data use

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New CIA Leak Reveals Tool That Can Track Computers via Wi-Fi

The latest CIA tool revealed online is rather straightforward -- malware that tracks a device's physical location. However, it doesn't need GPS, just Wi-Fi.

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Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Eliminate Lower Back Pain

Brain-computer interfaces could be critical to controlling chronic pain in patients, without the long-term side effects of opiate use.

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Drug Delivery Implants, Electrical Stimulation Can Manage Chronic Pain

New treatments for chronic pain could potentially address the ongoing opioid crisis in America via drug delivery implant systems and intrathecal electrical stimulation.

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App-based banking continues its ascent in the UK

The number of people banking from their mobile phones is increasing as more services are made available through the channel

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The big four cloud firms are set for price war over serverless computing, suggests 451 Research

Cloud industry price wars could enter new phase, as demand for serverless computing services grows, suggests 451 Research

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Security Think Tank: Patching is vital and essentially a risk management exercise

How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?

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IoT Tech Day showcases Benelux innovation

At the latest annual internet of things event in the Netherlands, the IoT moves from the geek's shed to the industrial plant, with some fantasy thrown in

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Ocado Technology completes two-week self-driving van trial in Greenwich

Ocado Technology opens up about how self-driving vans could revolutionise grocery deliveries in urban areas in the years to come

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Project management is key to driving business success

Project managers are struggling to keep up with the fast pace of business development, leading to project failures

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How Vegas is using IoT and Cisco to improve the city experience

Las Vegas’s chief innovation officer explains how the city has partnered with Cisco to deliver internet of things technologies that will help improve visitor experiences

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AMD Unveils Ryzen Pro CPUs, Details on Ryzen 3 Chips

AMD is refreshing its Pro lineup of desktop CPUs for business-class systems. It's also shared some data on what we can expect from the Ryzen 3 family when those chips debut later this year.

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PornHub Launches ‘Interactive’ Videos That Sync With Wireless Sex Toys

PornHub has announced a new 'Interactive' video category that will allow the company to sync porn videos with specific sex toys. Yay?

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Early AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Benchmarks Surface

Early benchmarks on AMD's Vega Frontier Edition are beginning to show up, but it's still early for firm conclusions about the GPU's performance relative to its Nvidia counterparts.

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Cyber security in industrial controls systems poor, says Crest

A lack of standards-based technical security testing is putting industrial control environments and critical national infrastructure at risk of cyber attack, a report reveals

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Cyber preparedness low among UK councils, survey shows

Confidence among UK local authorities about being prepared and well equipped to deal with a cyber attack is relatively low, a survey has revealed

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Lack of accountability and investment blamed for NHS cyber attack

An approach built on partnerships, sharing and mutual accountability is essential to ensure a cyber-safe NHS, according to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT

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Nutanix makes hybrid cloud push with Calm and Xi Cloud

Hyper-converged pioneer to extend on-premise OS to the cloud with plans to span the datacentre and public cloud using Calm, plus forthcoming hybrid cloud services via Xi Cloud

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Questions raised over long-term ultrabook support

A report from Greenpeace on e-waste highlights a growing problem in the maintainability of modern laptops

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Western Digital Unveils 96-layer NAND, 4-bit QLC breakthrough

Western Digital has announced a pair of major breakthroughs in NAND flash technology. The company is claiming it will commercialize 96-layer 3D NAND next year, and that it has found a way to build NAND that can store up to four bits of data per cell.

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Microsoft Details GPU Monitoring in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

After Microsoft's announcement of new GPU monitoring tools last week, we had some questions about the finer points of the implementation. The company has since responded.

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Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon 450 Will Give Budget Phones a Boost

The 400 series has been stagnating lately, but Qualcomm is about to give the midrange its biggest boost since that first 400 chip came out.

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Best Diesel Cars and SUVs Worth Buying in 2017

With more torque (but sometimes less horsepower), diesels are often quicker than gasoline equivalents. They all burn less fuel.

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AMD, Nvidia GPUs for Cryptocurrency Mining Unveiled

GPU mining might be all the rage again, but there's an important difference this time around -- now, the GPU manufacturers are looking to cash in on the craze.

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Security Think Tank: Can low-cost security defeat malware?

How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?

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Victims of latest global ransomware attack urged not to pay

Victims of the latest global ransomware attack are urged not to pay, while some researchers claim to have found a local kill switch or vaccine

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Half of highly skilled EU workers in UK are considering leaving

Retaining IT staff might be as much of a challenge as retaining them after Brexit as EU workers get itchy feet

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DVLA aims to slash IT costs by moving to public cloud and open standards

Agency’s IT strategy for 2019/20 will see a concerted move to deprecate legacy systems, deploy applications in the cloud and develop in-house IT

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Finnish government scraps paper and digitises archives

The government in Finland is digitising 94 shelf kilometres of documents to save millions of euros and make the information easier to access

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Cisco Live 2017: A tale of shifting skills and increased security

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Apple CEO Tim Cook explain how technology adoption is changing how organisations view skills and security

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Cyberattacks Disrupt Chernobyl’s Automatic Monitoring System

The new wave of malware sweeping across Europe has disrupted automatic monitoring of the Chernobyl disaster area. For now, manual monitoring has been implemented to keep the site under appropriate supervision.

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NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Plane Could Soon Take Flight

The agency is close to testing its design for Quiet Supersonic Transport or QueSST, which could lead to passenger jets that can again reach supersonic speeds.

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Another global ransomware attack underway as reports of Petya exploit spread

Latest cyber attack appears to be based on the same EternalBlue exploit used by the WannaCry ransomware that hit the NHS in May

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IBM Watson holds court at Wimbledon 2017

The All England Lawn Tennis Club is again playing doubles with IBM at its annual championship, this time with assistance from a virtual Fred Perry

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Security Think Tank: Key coping strategies for effective patch management

How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?

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‘NotPetya’ Ransomware Locking Down Computers Across the World

The highest rate of NotPetya infection appears to be in Ukraine, where multiple government systems have been locked down.

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Early eBay Listings for the SNES Classic Already Selling for Insane Markups

The SNES Classic Edition doesn't even ship for three months, but eBay scalpers are already selling "guaranteed" systems for enormous mark-ups.

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ET deals: Dell Inspiron 15 7000 series quad-core gaming laptop for $800

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Possible Mars-sized Planet Detected in the Outer Solar System

A new paper hypothesizes that there could be a Mars-sized object on the outskirts of the Kuiper Belt. If true, this would be distinct from the hypothesized Planet 9.

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Single-Use Microfluidics Could Boost Men’s Health Diagnostics

Recent microfluidics research claims diagnostic tests can be performed on a single microliter of blood. Can micro-sample diagnostics avoid going the way of Theranos?

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Chevrolet Cruze Diesel Gets Hybrid-Like Mileage, at a Cost

At 52 mpg, the diesel Cruze manual gets the best highway mileage of any non-hybrid or non-EV. But payback for the diesel premium could be more than a decade.

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Co-op digital chief Mike Bracken quits to focus on digital government consultancy

The former GDS chief is leaving the Co-op to work on advising governments around the world on their digital strategy

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Stronger cyber resilience culture needed to combat threats

Closer collaboration between departments such as business continuity and information security could help raise staff awareness to counter the cyber threat, according to industry experts

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French aeronautics and aerospace manufacturer optimises datacentres

High-tech manufacturer outsources datacentre management to support its digital transformation

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Google fined €2.4bn by European Commission for abusing internet search dominance

Company’s practices amount to an abuse of its dominant position in general internet search, stifling competition in comparison shopping, says European Commission

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BT launches free London Wi-Fi and phone calls

Londoners and tourists to get free Wi-Fi and calls from BT as the company replaces phone boxes with digital services units

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Hard to find positives for IT industry one year into Brexit

An economist, a business consult and a tech trade body representative give their verdict on prospects for the UK as Brexit negotiations finally get under way

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IT contractor-led campaign to crowdfund legal challenge to IR35 reforms goes live

Public sector contractors urged to back campaign to explore legal challenge to revamped IR35 tax avoidance rules

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To gain diversity we must ‘redefine’ how tech is perceived

To encourage more minorities into IT, Google’s head of diversity and inclusion in Europe claims the industry needs to redefine the stereotypes around what a job in tech entails

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Danish mobile payments users get lock-screen and Touch ID technology

Holders of Denmark’s national debit card can use their fingerprints to instigate payments

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7nm Semiconductor Tech to Arrive in 3 Stages: GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries has released additional details about its upcoming 7nm process, including when it expects to introduce EUV and other critical upgrades. The next few years are going to be very interesting in the foundry world.

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Microsoft Confirms Windows Code Leak, but Size, Details Disputed

Microsoft suffered a significant hack and data leak over the weekend, but the size and scale of the problem may have been smaller than initially reported.

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Dubai-based logistics company automates backup through cloud

Cloud backup and storage automation are key to supporting expansion at Middle East logistics company, CWT-SML

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Middle East retailers urged to embrace e-commerce platforms

E-commerce in the Middle East makes up a tiny proportion of the region's GDP, but this will change as Amazon stokes the market

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Palo Alto Networks confident of taking security into SaaS era

Security platforms could make it easier to take products to market and improve firms’ security posture by making innovative products easier to consume, but the biggest winners could be the platform providers

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News UK dumps tape for backup with Zadara cloud storage

News publishing corporation saves up to 40% on hardware and software costs by switching in-house hardware for a cloud-first policy, using Zadara cloud storage as a backup target

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SpaceX Nailed Two Falcon 9 Launches and Landings Over the Weekend

This is the new normal.

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Chrome Beats Edge in New Battery Life Tests

Microsoft has made a number of impressive claims about Microsoft Edge's battery life -- but those claims aren't holding up under independent analysis.

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Sega’s New ‘Sega Forever’ Emulation is a Train Wreck

Sega's new Sega Forever game collection ought to be a best-in-class way to experience your favorite Genesis games on modern mobile hardware -- but the quality of the ports is terrible and the games don't run well, even on cutting-edge equipment.

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Google Pixel 2 Leak Points to Snapdragon 835 and New Design

Google wants to compete with the likes of Samsung and Apple, and the Pixel was an impressive first attempt. So, what's in store for the Pixel 2? A spec leak offers some plausible details.

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Nintendo Unveils Super NES Classic Edition, Launches Sept 29 with 21 Games

Mode 7 freaks, get ready: Nintendo has unveiled the SNES Classic Edition, a miniature version of the beloved SNES in the vein of the NES Classic Edition that everyone wanted and few people were able to actually buy.

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New Implants Could Treat Type 2 Diabetes Without Needles

Minding type 2 diabetes at home is a laborious process involving time and calorie management, and sometimes needles. But it might not be all needles much longer.

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Building Gaming Keyboard 2.0: Bigger, Better, Oranger

The last time I built a gaming board, I tried to keep it a little on the conservative side. This time, I wanted to go all-out and build something visually striking without ending up with a neon stealth fighter.

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ET Deals: Save 86% on the Complete MATLAB Mastery Bundle

Data is useless if you can't properly use it, right? If you want to learn the skills necessary to visualize and analyze data in your field using MATLAB, you can learn how to best tackle the task at hand for just $27.

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AA blames password reset email glitch on ‘internal error’

Automobile Association apologises for sending out password reset confirmation emails to a small selection of customers in error, which led some to assume the company may have been hacked

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Security Think Tank: Apply risk-based approach to patch management

How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?

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Court ruling on Apple’s Irish datacentre planning dispute delayed by ‘shortage of judges’

The outcome of a judicial review into Apple's plans to build a datacentre in County Galway was delayed on Friday 23 June because of a shortage of judges, it has emerged

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Santander launches video mortgage application service

Spanish bank to roll out video technology for mortgage services at 63 branches in the UK following a successful trial

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Business as usual at Parliament after cyber attack

Both Houses of Parliament are to meet as scheduled after a “sustained and determined cyber attack” at the weekend

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IBM, US Air Force Are Building a Neuromorphic Supercomputer

IBM and the US Air Force are teaming up to build a massive supercomputer. The new system should be capable of processing data more like the human brain does, while simultaneously pairing that capability with more conventional CPUs.

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Major Hyper-Threading Flaw Destabilizes Intel Kaby Lake, Skylake CPUs

A recent flaw discovered in Intel's Hyper-Threading can cause system instabilities or crashes. Debian recommends disabling HT until appropriate UEFI updates are available (and the flaw can affect all operating systems, including Windows).

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How hyper-convergence is changing the shape of IT

Computer Weekly looks at how the hyper-converged market is hotting up, pulling together the latest analyst research findings

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Google Will Stop Reading Your Email to Target Ads

Google now says it will end the practice of targeting ads based on email text, but the decision was not made by the Gmail or advertising teams.

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SpaceX Successfully Launches, Lands Second Reused Rocket

SpaceX has successfully deployed the new BulgariaSat-1 and touched down safely with a reusable rocket.

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Microsoft Windows 10 S Isn’t as Secure as the Company Claims

Microsoft's Windows 10 S may be more secure than other versions of the OS, but no operating system is perfectly locked down.

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ET deals: Save $300 on a Dell XPS desktop PC

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Why entrepreneurship is the only escape from AI-fuelled unemployment

Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, predicts up to 15m people could lose their jobs due to AI. Society must adapt

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New PillCam Uses Wireless Radio, CCD Cameras to Diagnose Heartburn

A new type of endoscopy could significantly reduce patient discomfort while imaging areas that current techniques simply can't see. The PillCam uses a wireless radio and external SD Card to examine what's inside you and report back what it finds.

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In Wake of Apple Loss, Imagination Technologies Puts Itself Up for Sale

Imagination Technologies is reportedly in talks to sell itself to interested parties. Plans to spin off other parts of the business may have fallen through, but either way, the loss of Apple as a customer could be a fatal blow.

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Housing developer rolls out HCM to pave way for stock market listing

Bonava, which provides affordable and sustainable housing in Northern and Eastern Europe, rolled out HR technology in record time to meet a deadline to list on the Stockholm Stock Exchange

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Security Think Tank: Strategise, prioritise, automate and use cloud to improve patching

How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?

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Côte banishes planning ‘pain and anguish’ from menu with Anaplan

Restaurant chain has replaced spreadsheets with Anaplan financial planning software as it seeks more strategic control over growth

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Apple: Qualcomm Doesn’t Deserve to Earn Revenue on Every iPhone

A recent Supreme Court case may have strengthened Apple's arguments against Qualcomm's royalty structure and product fees.

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CIA Tools to Spy on Offline Computers with USB Drives Leaked

A new cache of CIA documents posted on Wikileaks reveals the methods employed by the CIA to hack so-called "air-gapped" machines. As with many exploits, it relies on people being the weak link.

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Why users don't always know what they need

The economic concept of revealed preference can often tell IT managers more about what their users want than users themselves

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Datacentre decisions: Converged vs hyper-converged infrastructure

Converged and hyper-converged infrastructure are ready-tested ways to put compute and storage into the datacentre. But which should you choose for your deployment?

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MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor speaks about ‘expanding universe’ of BI

Co-founder and CEO of MicroStrategy takes the long view on business intelligence and sees its universe expanding with mobile technologies

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Swedish fintech Klarna gains full banking licence

Swedish online payments provider Klarna becomes one of “the largest banks in Europe” after being granted an EU-wide banking licence by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority

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Russian hackers traded thousands of UK officials’ credentials

Login credentials of tens of thousands of UK officials were traded online after a 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, an investigation has revealed

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Virgin Media hit by second router security risk in two weeks

Virgin Media has been forced to act on a second security risk warning about its wireless routers in as many weeks

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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: GPU Performance Tracking, Xbox Live Boost

If you've ever wanted to track GPU usage the same way we can check CPU usage through the Windows 10 Task Manager, it's finally happening.

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One year on and one week in - what does Brexit mean for tech?

A good Brexit deal for the UK will rely on getting a good deal for the UK tech sector

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Cryptocurrency Craze Sends GPU Prices Skyrocketing — Again

Cryptocurrency mining is driving GPU prices upwards again, only this time it's hitting both AMD and Nvidia.

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Russian Company Is Selling Mods to Bypass DJI Drone Safety Features

DJI was forced to put safety measures in place on its drone aircraft after a series of stern warnings from government regulators. Now, a Russian company is charging a few hundred dollars to turn those limits off.

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WannaCry Virus Shuts Down Honda Factory for a Day

A production halt in Japan costs Honda 1,000 cars; Nissan and Renault were hit earlier by WannaCry.

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