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Microsoft wins $10bn Artificial Intelligence ‘Jedi’ contract
The Pentagon has awarded a $10bn (£8bn) cloud-computing contract to Microsoft, following a heavily scrutinised bidding process in which Amazon…
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Twitter used phone numbers gathered for account security to sell adverts
Twitter “inadvertently” used phone numbers and email addresses its users provided for account security purposes to target ads, the company…
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Churches try new ways to connect with members using technology.
Geraint Harries, a technology specialist, for St John the Evangelist in Lancashire, admits that when his parish first started using…
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Rwanda released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa
Rwanda President Paul Kagame has announced Africa’s “first high tech smartphone factory,” CNN reported. While smartphones are assembled in other…
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Cyber-criminals are threat to society, forensics boss warns
A senior manager at Eurofins, the UK’s biggest forensic services provider which was hit by a cyber-attack in June, has…
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Your data is lost to FaceApp if you are considering deleting it.
Last week, photo-editing app FaceApp went viral as people flocked to its aging feature. Faux-elderly photos of celebrities spread on…
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Facebook has to get out of the way for Libra crptocurrency
It would be a universal, stable currency that people could access from their smartphones and send around the world for…
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Samsung sued over water-resistant phone claims
Samsung is being sued by Australia’s consumer watchdog for allegedly making misleading claims about the water-resistant properties of its phones.…
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Apple dissolves iTunes into new apps
Apple has announced that iTunes is to be replaced by Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV. There had been…
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US demands social media details from visa applicants
Nearly all applicants for US visas will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules. The State…
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