Our weekly news round-up: Rocket Lab testing its Electron booster off Mahia Peninsula on NZ's North Island; MP3 audio encoding format "officially dead"; T-Rex's savage chomping power measured; Plastic pollution as big a danger as climate change; Improvement in Google's speech recognition; Net neutrality safeguards going up in smoke; Melting ice threatens Doomsday Arctic seed vault.
A sophisticated worm is attacking Windows machines globally, locking up computers in hospitals, airports and governments. The true scope of the attack remains unknown, but it's widespread, leaving experts scrambling to stop the rot.
Every day, YouTube serves more than a billion hours of video, while Google Maps users navigate over a billion kilometers. Just some of the mind-blowing figures released at the 2017 developers conference.
A sophisticated worm is attacking Windows machines globally, locking up computers in hospitals, airports and governments. The true scope of the attack remains unknown, but it's widespread, leaving experts scrambling to stop the rot.
Our weekly news round-up: Rocket Lab testing its Electron booster off Mahia Peninsula on NZ's North Island; MP3 audio encoding format "officially dead"; T-Rex's savage chomping power measured; Plastic pollution as big a danger as climate change; Improvement in Google's speech recognition; Net neutrality safeguards going up in smoke; Melting ice threatens Doomsday Arctic seed vault.
Were the outcomes of the Brexit referendum and the US presidential election effectively bought? An article in The Guardian suggests that Palantir, Cambridge Analytica and AggegateIQ played pivotal roles in poll results.
Were the outcomes of the Brexit referendum and the US presidential election effectively bought? An article in The Guardian suggests that Palantir, Cambridge Analytica and AggegateIQ played pivotal roles in poll results.
Were the outcomes of the Brexit referendum and the US presidential election effectively bought? An article in The Guardian suggests that Palantir, Cambridge Analytica and AggegateIQ played pivotal roles in poll results.
Were the outcomes of the Brexit referendum and the US presidential election effectively bought? An article in The Guardian suggests that Palantir, Cambridge Analytica and AggegateIQ played pivotal roles in poll results.
Our weekly news round-up: Global fallout from Fukushima declared to be minimal; Families of San Bernadino terror victims are suing Facebook, Twitter and Google; Quantum computing comes of age; Hawking says we have 100 years to leave Earth or risk extinction; NASA offers bounty to anyone who can optimise its code; Google docs hit with phishing scam; Foxtel files to block more pirate sites; AI can copy your voice after a minute training.
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