CYBERATTACK ON BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY WEBSITE BY RUSSIAN HACKERS: REPORT

Sun 01 October 2023: The website of the British royal family was temporarily disabled by a cyberattack on Sunday, dpa has learned from Buckingham Palace sources. No access to the website, its systems, or its content was gained. Upon visiting the URL, royal. uk, the page displayed an error message, ”Gateway time-out Error code 504,” The […]

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YOUR IPHONE WILL SOON BE ABLE TO TRACK YOUR MENTAL HEALTH WITH IOS 17, BUT WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR YOUR WELL-BEING?

Sun 01 October 2023: When Apple’s latest software updates drop this month, users will have access to mental health and wellness features unlike anything currently available in a smartphone. With the Apple Watch and iOS health app, Apple has long striven to cement itself in the health-care tech space. But the new features go beyond the standard heart rate, sleep, […]

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GOOGLE TURNS 25: THE SEARCH ENGINE REVOLUTIONISED HOW WE ACCESS INFORMATION, BUT WILL IT SURVIVE AI?

Thu 28 September 2023: Today marks an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday. With billions of search queries submitted each day, it’s difficult to remember how we ever lived without the search engine. What was it about Google that led it to revolutionise information access? And will artificial intelligence (AI) […]

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SPYWARE CAN INFECT YOUR PHONE OR COMPUTER VIA THE ADS YOU SEE ONLINE – REPORT

Mon 25 September 2023: Each day, you leave digital traces of what you did, where you went, who you communicated with, what you bought, what you’re thinking of buying, and much more. This mass of data serves as a library of clues for personalized ads, which are sent to you by a sophisticated network – an […]

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WHY DO I GET SO MUCH SPAM AND UNWANTED EMAIL IN MY INBOX? AND HOW CAN I GET RID OF IT?

Mon 25 September 2023: Spam might not have brought an end to the internet or email, as some dire predictions in the early 2000s claimed it could – but it’s still a massive pain. Despite all the spam being removed by spam-filtering technologies, most people still receive spam every day. How do these messages end up flooding […]

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WATCH | NASA SPACECRAFT LANDS SAMPLES OF ASTEROID TO EARTH DATING BACK TO THE BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Sun 24 September 2023: After a thrilling seven-year, four-billion-mile journey, a saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may contain information about the formation of the solar system slammed into Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday. The capsule then dropped to an on-target parachute-assisted descent in Utah. Only minutes away from landing! The #OSIRISREx main parachute has deployed […]

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SOUTH AFRICAN WARNS OF SCAMS AND RANSOMWARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Fri 22 September 2023:  Gauteng MEC for Community Safety, Faith Mazibuko, has called on the public to be wary of cybercriminals targeting unsuspecting individuals on various social media platforms.  “The public must be aware of cybercriminals, who target unsuspecting individuals on various social media platforms with the purpose of causing harm, demanding ransoms and scamming,” […]

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APPLE HAS SWITCHED FROM ITS LIGHTNING CONNECTOR TO USB-C — WE EXPLAIN WHICH IS BETTER AND WHY THEY DID IT

Fri 22 September 2023: After many years of designing and selling a variety of different cables to power and charge its devices, Apple has slowly switched to USB-C chargers for all of its products. The last device to swap is the iPhone, and it happened against Apple’s will. In October last year, the European Commission requested all phones and laptop […]

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MUSK’S NEURALINK NOW RECRUITING FOR 1ST HUMAN TRIAL OF ITS BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE

Thu 21 September 2023: San Francisco: Elon Musk-owned brain computer interface company Neuralink is now recruiting its first test subjects for human trials to help those with paralysis control devices. The company said it has received approval from the reviewing independent institutional review board and the first hospital site to begin recruitment for our first-in-human clinical […]

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