Mar 13, 2017
The World Wide Web, which turned 28 yesterday (12 March), is showing worrying trends towards abuse of personal data, a proliferation of fake news and misleading political advertising. World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has highlighted these three concerns in...
Mar 10, 2017
For the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, it’s been a long time between dinners. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found that the black hole ate its last big meal about 6-million years ago, when it consumed a large clump of...
Mar 9, 2017
With economic uncertainty and volatility impacting business and consumer confidence, technology markets are in for a rocky ride over the next 18 months. This is according to the latest Worldwide Black Book from International Data Corporation (IDC), a quarterly review...
Mar 8, 2017
WikiLeaks has revealed a batch of documents, codenamed “Vault 7”, that appears to implicate the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) in hacking iPhones, Android phones and Smart TVs. According to WikiLeaks, the documents indicate that CIA...
Mar 7, 2017
IBM is building the industry’s first commercially-available universal quantum computing systems, IBM Q, and will deliver them via the cloud. While technologies that currently run on classical computers, such as Watson, can help find patterns and insights buried...
Mar 6, 2017
Misaligned incentives and executive overconfidence are making it easier for attackers to infiltrate organisations. Intel Security, in partnership with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), today released “Tilting the Playing Field: How...
