Thu 04 July 2024: Bitcoin slid to a two-month low on Thursday, extending a month-long decline, as uncertainty over U.S. presidential elections and reports of bitcoin supply from a defunct Tokyo-based crypto exchange weighed on the market, Reuters reported. Bitcoin fell over 2% to $57,843, its lowest since May 2, and has lost more than […]
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Thu 04 July 2024: Disinformation caught many people off guard during the 2016 Brexit referendum and US presidential election. Since then, a mini-industry has developed to analyse and counter it. Yet despite that, we have entered 2024 – a year of more than 40 elections worldwide – more fearful than ever about disinformation. In many ways, the problem is more […]
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Wed 03 July 2024: Depending on which late-model vehicle you own, your car might be watching you – literally and figuratively – as you drive down the road. It’s watching you with cameras that monitor the cabin and track where you’re looking, and with sensors that track your speed, lane position and rate of acceleration. Your car […]
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Tue 02 July 2024: If you type the term “password cyberattack” into Google News, the results will show just how often cyber criminals are getting hold of important data belonging to companies and individuals. Weak passwords are a big part of the problem. For instance, in 2023 technology security firm Nordpass reported that “123456” was the most […]
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Tue 02 July 2024: The European Commission (EC) has charged Meta with violating the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) through its new “pay or consent” advertising model. This charge follows the tech giant’s introduction of a no-ads subscription service for Facebook and Instagram in Europe last November. The EC’s action is the latest in its […]
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Mon 01 July 2024: The World Economic Forum (WEF) unveiled its Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 report this week. Leading the list is “artificial intelligence (AI) for scientific discovery,” which has revolutionized research, especially in health-related areas, providing new insights into diseases. The report highlights AI’s significant impact on researchers’ understanding of new materials […]
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Sun 30 June 2024: Spam calls have surged in recent years. Spam numbers are hard to manually ban because they continually coming up. Android users, however, have a fix for this issue. One key function of the Google Phone app is spam prevention. To improve caller ID, it makes use of Google’s vast database of […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: Recently, one of my acquaintances, Frank, received an email late on a Monday afternoon with the subject line, “Are you still in the office?” It appeared to come from his manager, who claimed to be stuck in a long meeting without the means to urgently purchase online gift vouchers for clients. […]
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Wed 26 June 2024: Google has reportedly decided to discontinue its infinite scrolling features to bring in its classic pagination bar for desktop users, allowing them to directly get to a specific page of search results by simply clicking “Next.” The endless scrolling feature was first introduced for mobile devices in October 2021 and later […]
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Wed 26 June 2024: Astronomers have uncovered unexpected structures in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced Tuesday. “Scientists have found intricate features above Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot,” said ESA Webb Telescope on X. Previously thought to be “unremarkable,” the region hosts “intricate features, including […]
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