Month: October 2020
Facebook donates £1 million to help save UK’s WWII code-breaking center Bletchley Park
Facebook is donating £1 million ($1.3 million) to Bletchley Park, the UK center for Allied code-breaking during World War II that now operates as a museum. The Bletchley Park Trust, a registered charity, announced in August that the site was facing a revenue shortfall of £2 million because of falling…
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Alphabet’s Mineral moonshot wants to help farmers with robotic plant buggies
In 2018, Alphabet's X lab said it was in the process of exploring how it could use artificial intelligence to improve farming. On Monday, X announced that its "computational agriculture" project is called Mineral. The Mineral team has spent the last… Source
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Cybercriminals are impersonating parents for ransomware attacks on teachers null
The transition to distance learning has been hard enough for teachers around the world but now researchers at Proofpoint have observed a new targeted campaign that attempts to infect their computers with ransomware. The campaign uses messages where the attacker poses as a parent or guardian submitting an online assignment…
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US joins six countries in new call for backdoor encryption access
On Monday, the US Department of Justice signed on to a new international statement warning of the dangers of encryption and calling for an industry-wide effort to enable law enforcement agencies to access encrypted data once a warrant has been obtained. The US was joined in the effort by officials…
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Reruns of Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ series will stream on PlutoTV for free
If you live in the US, soon enough you won’t need a Netflix subscription to watch all of Narcos and Narcos: Mexico. Starting on October 20th, ViacomCBS will begin streaming the crime drama on its PlutoTV platform. You’ll have the chance to watch all… Source
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Alphabet’s latest X project is a crop-sniffing plant buggy
Alphabet’s X lab, the former Google division that launched the Waymo self-driving car unit and other ambitious projects, has officially announced its latest “moonshot”: a computational agriculture project the company is calling Mineral. The project is focused on sustainable food production and farming at large scales, with a focus on…
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