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Fourteen of the world's most respected information security experts have warned that client-side scanning "is a dangerous technology" that threatens democracy. The cryptographers and engineers, whose careers have laid the groundwork for the internet's fundamental security protocols, have authored a paper titled "Bugs in Our Pockets" to explain their concerns, They say that introducing the technology - recently proposed by Apple as a method of pre-emptively scanning all iPhones for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) - "would be an extremely dangerous societal experiment" that risks handing governments enormous surveillance powers. What is the technology? Client-side scanning (CSS) is a way of searching for particular files on a personal device without those files having to be shared with someone else, as happens with server-side scanning. Advertisement It is intended to protect users' privacy by preventing other people from seeing innocent …

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Endgame Entertainment; Five Star Feature Films After the 1976 launch of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs bought a mansion. In the enormous house's living room, over its enormous fireplace, the newly successful entrepreneur hung an enormous picture -- of Albert Einstein. This was appropriate. Steve Jobs, the man, was keenly aware of Steve Jobs, the legend. His keynote speeches and product launches were performances full of iconography that could forgivably be mistaken as religious. He used the word "revolutionary" the way most people use the word "nice." He enlisted Walter Isaacson, the consummate biographer of great men , to write his official biography. He saw himself, by most accounts, as a member of the historically elite group that includes Newton and Darwin and, yes, Einstein -- people whose lives made, as Jobs liked to say, " a dent in the universe ." We tend to recognize people of this caliber, through history's fuzzy filter, not so much for who they were as for what they …

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On June 14, 1940 , the day the German army invaded and occupied Paris, a small group of scientists marched to the White House with grave news for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. U.S. military technology, they said, was utterly unprepared to take on the Axis powers. They urged the president to create a new agency—a dream team of techies and scientists—to help win the war. In response, Roosevelt assembled an agency that became known as the Office of Scientific Research and Development, or OSRD. Led by Vannevar Bush, the former dean of the MIT School of Engineering, the office ultimately employed more than 1,500 people and directed thousands of projects around the country. By the end of the war, it had spawned military inventions such as the proximity fuse, radar, and—after one of its programs spun off to become the Manhattan Project—the atomic bomb. OSRD’s breakthroughs went far beyond missiles and bombs. It supported the first-ever mass production of penicillin in part by …

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The technology sector is facing sharper scrutiny after a former Facebook employee turned whistleblower accused the company of knowingly choosing profits over public safety, providing thousands of internal documents to support the claims. Facebook whistleblower: Four key takeaways from Frances Haugen's US Senate hearing Frances Haugen whistleblower leaks show Facebook cannot regulate itself, MEPs say As calls for more regulation intensify, citizens, policy-makers and innovators are wondering: how can we ensure technology serves the public good without stifling innovation? This will be one of the questions at the centre of our latest Euronews Debate on Tuesday 19 October at 15:00 CEST. Follow it live on this page. Our experts will discuss how various different types of companies develop and deploy tech and innovation, as well as answering the question of whether it can be profitable and for the public good. You can submit your burning questions on …

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As the world awaits a decommissioned satellite's return to the planet later this week, a look back at the fiery plunge of the Skylab in 1979 Sometime later this week, remnants of NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) will come crashing down to earth -- most likely landing in the ocean or somewhere quite remote. Nevertheless, the one-in-3,200 chance that debris hits a person has stirred up quite a frenzy of speculation, with various blogs and news outlets asking if you could be hit. The story is not unlike that of NASA's Skylab, which fell to Earth in 1979, provoking a frenzy of its own. TIME magazine write: With varying degrees of fear, anger and fascination, but mostly with a detached kind of bemusement, the world this week awaits an unprecedented event: the fiery fall of the largest machine man has ever hurled into space. The American Sky lab vehicle, nine stories tall and weighing 77.5 tons, is expected to slip into the earth's upper atmosphere, …

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From giant pineapple structures, to tentacled vases, to being swallowed up in blue-hued light - this year’s Frieze London is a return to life with colour, creativity and calm. The international art fair is back once again at London’s Regent’s Park, joined by Frieze Masters and exhibiting more than 40 galleries from across the world. Art lovers will find themselves immersed in themes of identity, race, architecture, climate change, technology and more as they get lost in the buzz of booths, exhibitions and artists. After a period of pixelated exhibitions and virtual shows, the tangible energy of Frieze’s in-person art is more welcome than ever. What is Frieze London? Founded in 2003 by entrepreneurs Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, Frieze London is a contemporary art fair that takes place every October in the heart of the city, Regent’s Park. This year it runs from 13 – 17 Oct 2021. The fair focuses on innovation and living artists' work, while fellow …

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Published 3 July 2017 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing The shoe retailer Clarks is to start making shoes in the UK once again. The firm has announced it is to open a new manufacturing unit, featuring "robot-assisted" technology, at its headquarters in Street, Somerset. Up to 300,000 pairs a year of the footwear firm's desert boots will be made at the facility, creating up to 80 technical and managerial jobs. The company started making shoes in the county in 1825 but production was moved from to the Far East in 2005. The company's desert boots are currently made in Vietnam and India and a spokesman said it will continue to source its range from its existing supply chain. The last remaining Clarks plant in the UK, in Millom in Cumbria, closed in 2006. Related Topics Street More on this story Clarks to axe jobs at village HQ …

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Published 16 January 2019 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing The shoe retailer Clarks has announced its UK factory could close. The firm opened a new manufacturing unit in 2017, featuring "robot-assisted" technology, at its headquarters in Street, Somerset. Up to 300,000 pairs a year of the footwear firm's desert boots were to be made at the facility, creating up to 80 technical and managerial jobs. But the firm is now consulting on its closure after those targets were not met. "Despite best efforts, we have determined that the levels of production and cost targets we hoped for will not be reached in the short to medium term," Clarks said in a statement. They are now "proposing to cease production and close the facility" and staff are subject to a 30-day consultation process. "We have a strong duty of care to all our employees and will ensure they are actively …

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By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja The Social Democratic Party, SDP, has expressed deep anger at the propensity of political money bags to rig elections in the country, saying ahead of the 2023 general election, it has become imperative to advocate the death penalty for election riggers. This was as the party kicked against zoning of the Delta State Governorship ticket to the Central Senatorial District, saying in a state like Delta with its political maturity and as home to eggheads, competence must trump zoning. Chairman of the party in the state, Amb Oke Idawene who is also the Chairman, Forum of SDP State Chairmen, stated this in an interview with Vanguard. He commended the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for its decision to deploy the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System BVAS in the September 11 state Assembly bye-election in Isoko South 1, Delta state, saying the technology helped to reduce incidences of multiple voting. Idawene said the device was able to guarantee …

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In a world that is ever in need of role models, his emergence alongside his DafriGroup Plc is a positive development for Africa. For someone born into poverty, whose childhood was spent on the dusty streets of Burgersfort, a town in Mpumalanga province of South Africa, Xolane Ndhlovu had his fair share of the hard-knock life, including working as a dishwasher at 17, becoming a DJ with relative success and being convicted for gang activities in 2013. But in eight years, Xolane, son of a Nigerian father and South African mother, changed the story of his life, taking advantage of the circumstances surrounding his life. The most important factor in his metamorphosis is none other than the willpower to chose a path. In this regard, his prison experience was the ultimate catalyst. His worldview changed after reading “Losing My Virginity,” the Richard Branson biography, that set him on the path of entrepreneurship, which he started by investing in Binance, a crypto blockchain …

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