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1. Add a password for your Wi-Fi – and one that hasn’t been hacked before If your car has its own WiFi connection, create your own password as soon as possible; previous hacks, including the case of the Jeep Cherokee, was made possible by the weak default WiFi password supplied by the manufacturer. There was … Read more
Defence giant Cobham adapts fighter jet oxygen system technology to build NHS ventilators By Francesca Washtell and Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 6 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 6 April 2020 Cobham has become the latest business to join the effort to make ventilators for the NHS. The British defence … Read more
British tech start-up helping to train front-line staff at NHS’s new emergency hospital in London to detect coronavirus By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:58 BST, 3 April 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 3 April 2020 A British tech start-up is helping to train front-line staff at the NHS’s new emergency hospital in … Read more
California company creates windows with built-in solar panels to help residents comply with a state regulation mandating all new home constructions use solar power A tech company in Redwood City has made windows with solar panels in them The windows only absorb infrared and ultraviolet light to avoid dim interiors The company believes the windows … Read more
A 40-year-old tech boss has told how he watched helplessly as two patients died in front of him as he fought coronavirus in intensive care. Jozef Wallis, a fit and healthy father-of-two, began feeling ill after a night out in the pubs around London Bridge station two weeks ago. Despite suffering a raging fever and … Read more
AI speech recognition systems from five major tech companies are biased toward people of color, as they make twice as many errors transcribing speech from black people than they do from whites, study reveals Study found systems from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and IBM are biased Fed technologies some 2,000 speech samples from blacks and … Read more
STOCK WATCH: Bad time for a float? Not at all, says Italian tech firm Supply@Me By Jamie Nimmo For The Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 23:05 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 23:05 GMT, 21 March 2020 Markets are in freefall and takeovers are falling off a cliff so you would think there is surely … Read more
Tech firms cash in as office staff switch to working from home during the coronavirus pandemic By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 22:28 GMT, 20 March 2020 Technology companies are cashing in as millions of office staff switch to working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. … Read more
PUNT OF THE WEEK: Security tech firm Indigovision supplies everything from body-worn cameras to security management software By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 6 March 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 6 March 2020 AIM-listed Indigovision sells CCTV and video security systems to customers such as prisons, casinos, airports What is it? … Read more
Netflix and Apple are the latest companies to pull out of South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, over fears about the spread of the coronavirus. Variety reported late Wednesday night that streaming giant Netflix is canceling five film screenings and a panel for its upcoming series #BlackExcellence. The news came after tech giant Apple canceled scheduled … Read more