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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Did the U.S. government miss opportunities to rein in Google? Five months ago, I posed that question in this newsletter. Newly revealed documents suggest that the answer...
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Do you know of a site where the wild thyme blows? You do now.“Dream,” an interactive experience from the Royal Shakespeare Company, which runs through Saturday and lasts about as long as a power nap, transports its thousands of viewers to a sylvan grove,...
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Ride-hailing firm Uber has agreed to pay its UK drivers the minimum wage, but only for the time they are assigned to trips, rather than, as the Supreme Court explicitly ruled, from when they log in to the app.
On 19 February 2021, the UK Supreme...
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Eleven years in the making, the most powerful NASA-built rocket since the Apollo program at last stands upright. Framed by the industrial test platform to which it is mounted, the Space Launch System’s core section is a gleaming, apricot-colored column cast into relief by...
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The average ransom paid by victim organisations in Europe, the US and Canada has almost trebled from $115,123 (€96,666/£82,788) in 2019 to $312,493 in 2020, and with the spread of double extortion tactics this number is continuing to grow, according to statistics gathered by threat researchers...
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The European Commission (EC) has proposed the creation of a Digital Green Certificate vaccine passport to enable safe freedom of movement within the European Union (EU) for the remainder of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Delivered either digitally or in paper format, the free-of-charge certificate will demonstrate either...
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UK IT-led business service provider Capita is restructuring, including selling off assets, after reporting a loss and falling revenues.
The company, a major supplier to the UK government, reported a loss of £49m and a 10% fall in sales at £3.32bn for its financial year ended...
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The use of digitisation and robotics to modernise Nordic healthcare is increasing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) technologies.
High demand for patient-focused healthcare technologies has added a new dynamic to the growth path of Nordic medical technology firms (medtechs) providing digitised...
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Cyber security experts have given the thumbs-up to newly announced plans to strengthen both the UK’s cyber sector and its offensive and defensive capabilities, trailed earlier in the week and formally announced on 16 March in the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.
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Russell Impagliazzo, a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego, said the LLL algorithm has also led to what is known as homomorphic encryption, which allows calculations to be performed on encrypted data without ever decrypting it.Dr. Impagliazzo said homomorphic...
