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As the dust slowly settles on a horrifying assault on the Capitol, it’s apparent that American democracy is in a fragile state. As the Economist concluded last week in its annual review of democracy around the world, the United States is “polarized not only on policy issues but on core values, and the social cohesion … Read more
As the dust slowly settles on a horrifying assault on the Capitol, it’s apparent that American democracy is in a fragile state. As the Economist concluded last week in its annual review of democracy around the world, the United States is “polarized not only on policy issues but on core values, and the social cohesion … Read more
A coalition of health organizations and technology companies, including Microsoft and Oracle, are working on a project that verifies who has received the coronavirus vaccination and prevent others from making false claims they have. Called Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), the venture aims to help people get encrypted digital copies of their immunization records stored in … Read more
Zoom could be developing an email service and calendar app in a bid to take on Google and Microsoft A report reveals Zoom is developing a web email and calendar service The firm is developing the email service that could rollout next year It is said to be studying a calendar application but no dates … Read more
The spy in your computer that knows if you’re bored at work: Microsoft develops new system that can tell when employees are bored Microsoft filed patent for network designed to monitor and score body language Speech and facial expressions at meetings will also be analysed via cameras ‘Insight computing system’ will pick up on signs indicating … Read more
Microsoft Outlook went DOWN across UK and parts of Western Europe leaving thousands of users unable to access emails for hours Outlook email users have been met with a ‘service unavailable’ error message Microsoft has confirmed it is investigating the cause of the outage Issues were first reported at around 7am, according to DownDetector As of 6pm, … Read more
Microsoft Outlook goes DOWN across UK and parts of Western Europe: Outage leaves thousands of users unable to access emails Outlook email users have been met with a ‘service unavailable’ error message Microsoft has confirmed it is investigating the cause of the outage Issues were first reported at around 7am, according to DownDetector By MailOnline Reporter Published: … Read more
More than half of nation-state cyber attacks in the last year have originated from Russia, Microsoft has revealed in a new report. According to the firm’s annual Digital Defense Report, 52 per cent of state-sponsored hacking attempts from July 2019 and June 2020 were Russian in origin. Exactly a quarter during this time period came … Read more
Microsoft has retrieved an underwater data centre from Scottish waters after two years of providing cloud services from the bottom of the ocean. The 40-foot cylinder, which descended into waters off the coast of Orkney in spring 2018, is powered by tidal turbines and wave energy converters. Marine specialists took just a day to retrieve … Read more
Computer software company Oracle has won the bidding for TikTok’s US operations, a source told the Wall Street Journal. It comes a week before President Donald Trump promises to follow through with a plan to ban the Chinese-owned app in the US. A person familiar with the matter told the WSJ that Oracle will be … Read more