Month: May 2020
Elon Musk’s battle to reopen Tesla’s Fremont plant may shape his legacy
Elon Musk intends to make himself immortal by inserting himself into history books as best he can: electric cars will do, but so will a private mission to Mars. At times, it seems that he is the last subscriber to the “Great Man” theory of history. Well, none of us…
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The Dark Secrets of Hacking Hero Marcus Hutchins
This week, Andy Greenberg talks about his profile of hacker Marcus Hutchins, and we get an update on contact tracing programs helping to slow the pandemic. Source
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Fibre broadband deals don’t come any better – £75 Amazon card, 63Mb speed, £22.95/pm
Baking bread, sewing face masks, running marathons in your garden – UK lockdown has certainly given us plenty of new hobbies to try. But ‘broadband deals hunting’ isn’t one we imagine you’re too passionate about. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be. Because we’ve found you hands down the best broadband…
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Facebook’s new undersea web cable will almost triple Africa’s internet capacity
Facebook is building a colossal undersea web cable that will nearly triple Africa’s internet capacity, the firm has announced. Constructed in partnership with a range of global telecoms firms – including China Mobile, MTN, Orange and Vodafone – the 2Africa cable will run 37,000 kilometers around the continent’s perimeter. Once…
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Microsoft 365 login pages may hide phishing attack
Microsoft has warned that hackers are already including the company’s latest software updates and releases into online scams. The company says it has detected a number of phishing campaigns that utilise updated branding from the new versions of Microsoft 365 and the company’s Azure cloud platform. These scams are being…
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The Morning After: A free ‘GTA V’ offer crashed the Epic Games Store
A little more than five years after NextVR streamed its first live VR broadcast from California to my house in Michigan, Apple confirmed it’s acquiring the startup. While Apple has built AR features into some of its platforms already, rumors of a big… Source
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