Apple's delayed Irish datacentre prompts calls to reform country's planning system

The latest delays in Apple's bid to open a datacentre in Athenry, County Galway, has prompted calls for a revamp of how planning permission decisions in Ireland are handled

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Nearly half of UK SMEs spend less than £1,000 on cyber defences

Almost 50% of UK small to medium enterprises plan to spend £1,000 or less on cyber security in the next year and 22% do not know how much they will spend, insurance firm Zurich has revealed

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Parliament’s digital chief quits to become Arup CIO

Rob Greig is leaving in September for a new role in the private sector

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AMD Announces New Threadripper Core, Reveals Launch Date

AMD's new Threadripper CPU is nearing the launchpad. In addition to the 16-core and 12-core chips we knew about, there's another CPU debuting at the end of August.

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Former Google Exec Wrongly Claims Android Photography Is Years Behind

There are plenty of Android phones with a good camera, and even some with amazing cameras. Don't tell that to former Google SVP Vic Gundotra, who opined on his Facebook page recently that Android phones are bad for photography.

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ET Deals: Cisco Associate Certification Training Bundle for $79

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Apple Now Lists Some Movies as 4K, HDR Compatible on iTunes

Apple may be prepping the release of an updated Apple TV model with 4K, HDR, and potentially a few other goodies as well. Could this be the moment when the hardware goes from hobby to serious pursuit for the company?

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OVH opens first UK datacentre in south London

French cloud provider OVH has opened the doors on its first datacentre in the UK, slightly later than planned

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BT makes firm offer to meet USO broadband commitment

BT has made a firm offer to become the designated provider of the 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation broadband service

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Enterprises are upping security demands on SME suppliers

More and more enterprise-level organisations are assessing cyber security during supplier contract negotiations, a survey shows

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How the Met Office is handling a deluge of data

‘Lazy’ open source tools are helping the UK weather forecasting service open up unprecedented volumes of data to all

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Virgin America praised for cyber breach response

Virgin America’s detection and response to a data breach has been praised by security commentators

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AMD’s Vega Takes on Nvidia: Pricing, Features Revealed

AMD has finally revealed Vega's pricing and which GPUs in Nvidia's lineup it'll be taking on. After so long, does AMD still have an A-game that can challenge its largest rival?

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Foxconn Claims It’ll Build a Factory in Wisconsin, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

Foxconn has announced it will open a manufacturing plant in Wisconsin, but it's made similar announcements before, all of which came to naught.

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Cable Lobby Claims US Is Just Bursting With Broadband Competition

The NCTA is claiming 88 percent of Americans have access to broadband, and when you compare it with phone lines and ISDN installations (I jest, slightly), it's true. Too bad 3Mbps is the kind of speed you could buy in 1999.

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Astronomers Identify First Potential Exomoon 4,000 Light-Years Away

A team from Columbia University thinks it might have the first solid evidence of a moon outside our solar system, and Hubble is going to give it a look.

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ET deals: 1TB of iDrive cloud backup for 75% off

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How the Lily Camera Took the Internet by Storm, Then Imploded

Few companies have grabbed consumer attention so quickly and then self-destructed in such short order. Lily Robotics is a case study in how a killer idea surfaces and falls apart when engineers and programmers can't deliver on what the company is publicly promising.

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Microsoft Boosts Phone Linking in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

The Fall Creators Update already packs a number of new features and abilities, but MS apparently isn't done adding new options quite yet.

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Startup Aims to Make 3D Metal Printing 100 Times Faster

A company called Desktop Metal thinks it can finally take 3D metal printing mainstream with its new system, which is supposed to be both less expensive and much faster.

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Security Think Tank: Employees are in the cyber attack firing line, so educate them well

What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?

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Hyperoptic targets two million properties with gigabit broadband

Full-fibre broadband supplier wants to pass two million homes and businesses with a gigabit service by 2022 after receiving a £100m funding injection

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BT hands over £225m to ward off legal action over accounts scandal

BT has had to pay out £225m to avoid being dragged through the courts by EE’s old owners

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AWS emerges as a bright spot in Amazon’s ‘mixed’ Q2 results

Amazon.com’s earnings per share failed to meet analyst expectations, but the retail giant’s cloud arm continues to go from strength to strength

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CIA hacking tools for Mac OS and Linux exposed by WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks has exposed hacking tools targeting the Mac and Linux operating systems in the latest of its series of leaks allegedly from the US Central Intelligence Agency

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Intel reports record second quarter

Intel chief claims to have raised the bar on performance and predicts record year for the chip maker after record second-quarter revenue

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Microsoft Makes Windows 10 Creators Update Available to All

Microsoft is making the Creators Update available to all qualifying machines, while simultaneously reorganizing how it delivers updates across the Windows and Office ecosystems.

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AMD Threadripper Delidded, With a Multi-Core Surprise Under the Hood

AMD's Threadripper has a surprise underneath its IHS -- and we're just not referring to the company's decision to use solder instead of thermal paste.

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Cyber security not a priority for most sectors, study finds

Despite data breaches costing UK firms nearly £30bn in 2016, cyber security is still not a priority for most UK industry sectors, a study has revealed

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EE’s dominance in mobile network quality no longer a given

EE has retained its overall lead as the top-performing mobile network in the country, but is facing increasingly stiff competition from O2, Three and Vodafone

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CRISPR Used to Genetically Modify Human Embryo in the US

Researchers in the US have limited CRISPR experiments on the human genome, but for the first time, a US team has successfully edited a human embryo with CRISPR.

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ET deals: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 14-inch Ultrabook for $1029

If you're looking for a thin, lightweight laptop with all-day battery life, check out the latest iteration of Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It only weighs about 2.5 pounds, measures six-tenths of an inch thick, and delivers up to 15.5 hours of battery life on a single charge. Better yet, today's coupon will help you save you hundreds off the list price.

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AMD Launches Massive Radeon Driver Update 17.7.2

AMD launched a major driver update with a suite of improvements for gamers and professional developers alike.

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Unified communications supplier Mitel buys competitor ShoreTel

The deal will create a market leading unified communications business and adds strength to Mitel’s cloud offering

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Sky to create 300 tech jobs to bolster capabilities of streaming services

Broadcasting giant outlines plans to ramp up its software engineering capabilities in the face of growing competition

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Meg Whitman steps down from HP Inc board

Whitman has served as chairperson of HP since the separation of HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise in November 2015

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Security Think Tank: People are part of security, but should not be key element

What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?

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How Wales has evolved into a hotspot for cyber security

Wales may be a small country but, in just a few years, it has become a global hotspot for cyber security innovation

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Tribunal strikes down Ofcom rulings on business broadband

The telecoms regulator will have to go back to the drawing board as it seeks to establish regulation for the business broadband market, following a successful appeal by Openreach

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Facebook share price hits record high

Social networking giant reports revenue up 45% and profits up 71% in second quarter compared with Q2 2016, as share price hits $173

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Ryzen for the Rest of Us: AMD’s New Ryzen 3 Takes On Intel Core i3

AMD's budget-oriented Ryzen 3 CPU launches today to take on the Intel Core i3 head-to-head. It's an interesting tussle, with strengths and weaknesses on both sides.

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Smallest-Ever Working Satellites Reach Orbit

Each satellite is only 3.5cm across (about the size of a postage stamp) and weighs just 4 grams.

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Nordic digitisation brings unwanted consequence of heightened cyber security risks

The Nordic region is becoming highly connected – which has not gone unnoticed by cyber criminals

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Apple Ordered to Pay $506 Million in CPU Patent Dispute

Apple is facing more than $500M in fines for continuing to refuse to pay regarding a previous verdict of patent infringement on its iPhone and iPad products. The judge in this particular case clearly isn't happy with the company.

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TSA Will Now Screen All Electronics ‘Larger Than a Cell Phone’

The TSA is making flying more miserable for everyone, thanks to a new set of rules that require all electronics larger than a cell phone to be independently binned and X-rayed in the same way laptops are today.

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Security Think Tank: Security is a shared responsibility

What are the best types of security controls organisations should organisations be using to ensure a safe working environment for employees so that they do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?

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GDS wants IT suppliers to use its GaaP products – but won’t offer service guarantees

The Government Digital Service encourages tech firms to adopt the platform services it has developed – but can’t offer any service or support guarantees

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Radiation detection devices open to cyber attack, researcher finds

A security researcher has discovered numerous security flaws in multiple devices that are used to detect radiation in critical facilities

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Relational databases relatively poor at running digital transformation projects

Digital projects aren’t living up to expectations, with many only delivering incremental improvements to the status quo, survey reveals

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Good Cars, Poor Sales: Why GM Might Kill Off 6 Sedans

US sedan sales are down 12 percent this year, and GM's are down 17 percent; the Chevy Impala is down a whopping 45 percent. At risk are the Impala, Sonic and Volt; the Cadillac XTS and CT6; and the Buick LaCrosse.

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USB 3.2 Doubles the Speed of Cables You Already Have

The update takes advantage of capabilities already built into many devices, meaning you might not need any new cables to get the higher speeds.

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ET deals: Get a Lifetime Subscription to PureVPN for $90

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NASA Has Supersonic Ideas That Could Cut Your Flight Time in Half

NASA has a plan to allow supersonic transports to operate over the US at a fraction of their current noise, and wants to work with companies to bring it to market.

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Outcome of judicial review into Apple's Irish datacentre dispute delayed until 10 October

Apple faces a further three-month delay to see if it will be given the go-ahead to proceed with its much-delayed bid to build an €850m datacentre in Athenry, County Galway

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Events business uses fixed-wireless to serve demanding clients

Etherlive, a provider of networking and IT services to organisers of major outdoor events, is using Luminet’s Fibre-Air fixed-wireless access product to better address its clients’ needs

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UK firms see employees as top risk to GDPR compliance

Most UK companies consider their staff as the biggest threat to compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, a survey has revealed

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Google Cloud Platform reaches new heights in Alphabet results

GCP is establishing itself as a viable revenue stream for the search engine giant

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Adobe to kill off Flash Player by end of 2020

Adobe has announced it is to stop updating and distributing Flash Player in just over three years’ time

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Toyota Unveils Solid-State Battery Design for EVs

Toyota is hoping it can leapfrog its competitors and deploy a new, cutting-edge, solid-state lithium-ion battery chemistry by 2022.

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AMD Beats Q2 2017 Expectations on Strong Ryzen, Epyc Sales

AMD beat Wall Street expectations for Q2 2017 and is on track to deliver a strong Q3 and Q4, with Vega and Threadripper both debuting in August.

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Adobe to Kill Flash Plugin by 2020

Flash never adapted to the modern world, and now Adobe is giving up.

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GSK hires ex-Walmart CIO Karenann Terrell as chief digital officer

Pharmaceutical giant GSK is building out its executive tech team with the appointment of its first chief digital officer

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Security Think Tank: Avoiding the blame game

What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?

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Getting stuck on OpenStack: Overcoming the open source cloud platform's upgrade barriers

Some members of the OpenStack community are finding it a struggle to upgrade to newer versions of the open source cloud operating system. Could customisation be to blame?

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Unilever signs partnership deal with Accenture to drive sales for ‘digitally savvy’ consumers

Unilever enters tech partnership with Accenture to help maintain consumer loyalty and drive sales

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Ransomware threat escalating, warns Europol

Europol warns that the threat of ransomware continues to escalate as it marks the anniversary of a cross-industry anti-ransomware initiative

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CIF gears up to target public sector cloud

Cloud Industry Forum wants to help the UK government achieve its digital strategy, but working with government is still a big challenge for many providers

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Roomba Maker Wants to Sell Maps of Your Home to Google, Amazon

iRobot, the company behind Roomba, is convinced that the future lies in data collection and partnerships with corporations like Amazon and Google, as opposed to cleaning your floors or vacuuming the carpet.

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ET deals: Save $350 on a Dell XPS 8910 desktop PC

In search of an affordable desktop that has plenty of room for upgrades? Take a look at the XPS 8910 tower PC from Dell. With a sleek modern design, a Skylake CPU, space for three 3.5-inch drives, and support for up to 64GB of DDR4 memory, this PC is up for almost anything.

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You Can Now Visit the International Space Station in Google Street View

With the help of the ISS crew, Google has rolled out an interactive version of the station in Google Maps, which you can explore right now.

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Helix Launches DNA App Store

A startup called Helix is counting on people being curious enough to drop cash in its DNA app store on a regular basis.

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ET Deals: Get an Extra 10% When You Sell Your Gadgets on Decluttr

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New Private World of Warcraft Server Crushed By Blizzard Within Hours of Launch

The new, Burning Crusade-focused Felmyst private server was online for less than a day before Blizzard shut it down for good.

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Ransomware as a service is a game changer, warns Sophos

The advent of ransomware as a service heralds a new era in malware, which means security suppliers and user organisations will have to adapt

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National Army Museum uses Tide for future personalisation plans

Following renovations to its physical space, the National Army Museum used Talisman’s Tide platform to integrate its current systems and allow for personalisation in the future

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North Korean web users enjoy Amazon, Facebook and YouTube, report claims

Threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future claims that the North Korean elite are as plugged in to the worldwide web as any western citizen

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Big data means big risk, Swedish Transport Agency leak shows

The Swedish Transport Agency exposed sensitive information by transferring its databases to a third party cloud provider without following data protection procedures

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London security centre handed £14.5m to get off the ground

The government is to fund a new cyber security innovation centre in the capital and has launched a competition to develop and design it

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BP broadens public cloud strategy by adopting Microsoft Azure for data analytics

Oil and gas giant reveals details of plans to move its proprietary data lake to Microsoft Azure for data processing purposes

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AA Ireland turns to predictive analytics in fraud crackdown

Roadside assistance company invests in analytics software to fight fraud and introduce dynamic pricing after its split with the AA

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Nordea deploys AI to speed up customer service

Nordea is reaping the rewards of its fintech investments through its latest project to use artificial intelligence to support customers

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Samsung Wants to Triple Its Foundry Market Share in Just 5 Years

Samsung has an ambitious plan to triple its server market share in just five years, but can the company pull it off?

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Microsoft’s Next HoloLens Will Contain an AI Coprocessor

Microsoft's next-generation HPU is going to pack an AI coprocessor for creating deep neural networks, all while remaining a discrete, battery-powered device.

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UAE hotel upgrades wireless network and internet connectivity

Beach resort completes major project to revamp its wireless infrastructure with TP-Link technologies

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Mastercard outlines future digital payment platforms after improvements to Qkr

Mastercard has developed its mobile app, Qkr, for spectators at The Open Championship. The improvements further demonstrate new digital payment platforms offered by the company

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Python Tops 2017’s Most Popular Programming Languages

IEEE Spectrum's top programming languages for 2017 are out, and this time, Python tops the overall list.

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The SNES Classic Launch Is On Track to Be Another Disaster

Nintendo bungled the NES Classic, and the SNES Classic could be in even higher demand.

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MS Paint, Screensavers Get the Axe in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince -- may flights of angels sing you to your rest.

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ET Deals: Thousands of online courses from Udemy for just $10 each

If you love to learn, check out the outstanding classes at Udemy. Thousands of online courses are being discounted today, so you can invest in a new skill -- even if you're on a budget.

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Tech disruption forces CEOs to rethink leadership

Headline figures from KPMG’s Outlook 2017 survey of 1500 CEOs shows that 40% expect technology innovation to cause major disruption

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Tesco expands reach for same-day grocery delivery

Supermarket retailer Tesco announces it will be extending its offering of same-day delivery for groceries to across the UK

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What are Amazon Web Services’ Nordic plans?

Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud

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DARPA Picks Dream Teams to Develop Wireless Brain Interface

DARPA is working on an implantable, wireless brain-computer interface that can read from and communicate to neurons.

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There’s No Oculus Rift 2 Coming Anytime Soon

Oculus slashed the price of the Rift to $400 for the next few weeks, sparking fears that a 2.0 version of the device is imminent. According to Facebook executives, that's not happening.

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Melted Nuclear Fuel Found Below Fukushima by Underwater Robot

A radiation-hardened robot dubbed 'Little Sunfish' has given us our first look at what's under the water in Reactor #3 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

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Daimler and Bosch show off autonomous valet parking

A test of an app-based autonomous valet service is to take place at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart over the next few months

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IR35 reforms: IT contractor fleshes out details of potential HMRC legal challenge

Following the early-stage success of efforts to crowd-fund a legal challenge against the IR35 reforms, one of the IT contractors behind the campaign outlines details of what could happen next

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Data management: What does the future hold?

We explore how firms are replacing transactional database management systems with new database architectures

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European Commission calls for free flow of data after Brexit

EC digital leader says EU must avoid “data nationalisation” after the UK leaves – but also warns EU states

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UK government wants to give 6,000 teenagers cyber security training

Government launches £20m Cyber Schools Programme aimed at students aged between 14 and 18

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Google’s 5 Biggest Android Missteps

Some have pointed to one issue or another as evidence of Android's inadequacy. Still, things have worked out, even with a few big errors on Google's part.

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Winter is Coming: Blizzard Will Kill Support for Windows XP, Vista in October

Blizzard is killing support for both Windows XP and Vista this year, making Windows 7 the oldest OS still officially supported.

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German Car Companies May Have Colluded to Fix Price of Diesel Parts

Multiple diesel car manufacturers stand accused of collusion by the EU, including BMW, Audi, Porsche, and VW itself. EU investigators are not pleased.

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Gigabyte Announces Tiny PC More Powerful and Upgradeable Than Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi has proven itself to be a versatile little computer, and you can get them for pocket change. It's a bit light on power, though. Now, Gigabyte is preparing to launch a similar device called the GA-SBCAP3350.

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CaixaBank deploys tablet PCs across retail banking to improve account management

Spanish bank now provides its account managers with a mobile terminal, enabling them to access core account management systems from anywhere

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NASA Drops Decades of Archival Flight Research Footage on YouTube

Step into your test pilot boots, kiddos, because we're going supersonic.

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Global Police Operation Shuts Down Two Darknet Drug Markets

An international team of law enforcement agencies just executed an impressive takedown of two of the largest darknet markets. Law enforcement even ran one of the services for weeks to gather information on users.

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Watch Stanford’s Freaky New Soft Robot Grow Itself

Not even vaguely humanoid and still managing to land squarely in the middle of the Uncanny Valley, these crazy techno-tentacles from Stanford can grow and propel themselves like living vines. Researchers hope to use them in disaster scenarios.

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The 20 Best Free PC Games

There are loads of free PC games out there, but many of them aren't worth your time. These will have you hooked for hours.

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Scottish community broadband network gets funding to expand

The Locheilnet community wireless broadband scheme has been awarded funding to upgrade its core infrastructure and target new customers

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What's behind Google Hire?

Google Hire is the latest move by the internet search giant to expand its reach. We investigate the implications

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Elon Musk Wants to Build a Hyperloop From New York City to DC

Elon Musk claims to have received verbal government approval to work on a Hyperloop that would cross from New York City to Washington DC, stopping at several major cities along the way.

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Destruction of service attacks an existential threat to business, says Cisco

Security threats and attacks against the network are set to become far more destructive, according to Cisco’s mid-year security report

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Azure propels Microsoft intelligent cloud earnings

Microsoft's hybrid approach to cloud computing is starting to pay dividends, as the company's Q4 2017 financial results show

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Research from Ponemon Institute highlights lack of confidence in public sector IT

IT decision makers in the public sector say they struggle with IT operations, reveals study by the Ponemon Institute

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CIO interview: Marc Roberts, CTO, HiyaCar

The CTO at a company that is disrupting the car rental sector tells Computer Weekly about some of his major projects

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Bank to help youngsters manage money through video blogs

Halifax is working with young vloggers to educate children on money management

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Nintendo Now Rumored to be Prepping Classic N64 Edition

Nintendo's Super NES Classic Edition hasn't even launched yet, but rumor is that the company is planning an iteration of the N64 along similar lines.

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New iOS 10.3.3 Update Fixes Critical Wi-Fi Security Bug

Apple released a major security update for iOS 10.3.3 yesterday, with fixes included for some significant bugs. If you're running iOS 10, you'll want to upgrade, immediately.

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Fujitsu Enters Deep Learning, AI Markets With Custom Architecture

Fujitsu is throwing its own hat into the ring with deep learning and AI processing cores coming to market in 2018.

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The First Moon Landing Took Place 48 Years Ago Today

Humans have done myriad impressive things in space, from building the International Space Station to landing a robot on a comet. Still, none of those accomplishments have quite the same historical weight as the first time a person walked on the moon.

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Government confirms tech experts advising on digital economy

Experts from across UK technology sector will help government implement digital economy policies

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Lords to probe ethics of artificial intelligence

The House of Lords Select Committee on artificial intelligence has issued a call for evidence as it looks into the ethical, social and economic impact of the technology

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Security Serious Week summit goes virtual

The third annual Security Serious Week in October 2017 will feature an entirely virtual conference, accessible to anyone who is online

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Devil’s Ivy a call to action on IoT security

The discovery of a security flaw in an open source third-party code library that could allow attackers to access and hijack devices underlines the need for a greater focus IoT security, say experts

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Data takes to the road - the technology behind the Tour de France

The world's greatest cycle race is transforming its relationship with fans thanks to internet of things, data analytics and machine learning technologies

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SAP Q2 2017 results: cloud revenue €932m, 500 new S/4 customers

SAP’s second-quarter revenue of €5.78bn included €932m for cloud subscription and support – 16% of the total – while new S/4 Hana customers included Centrica and Google

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Oracle expands Cloud at Customer, adds 1,000 cloud sales Emea staff

Supplier adds SaaS elements to hybrid cloud service and aims to recruit 1,000 staff in Emea to accelerate cloud business

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Elon Musk Warns AI Could Destroy The World

Elon Musk is on the mic warning us about AI once more. This is the inventor (“genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist…”) who wants to put a dude on Mars in five years, and had no problems specifying the space suits for SpaceX’s Mars missions had to look “badass.” This is the guy who conceived and developed an…

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