How small businesses can improve their cybersecurity

It’s not only large companies that face cyberattacks – there are affordable steps small companies can take to protect their business data and IT systems.You can’t assume that your small business is not a target for hackers. As many as three-quarters of smaller businesses are...

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The best American wines to drink on Halloween

Hallowe’en was hardly celebrated when I was young, yet for my children it is an essential excuse to accumulate sweets.America takes the event particularly seriously, and its wines are enjoying a renaissance here. We have for a long time drunk a lot of them, but the figures...

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Touchung Robots in Private Parts Makes People Uncomfortable

Robots can’t feel shame, which saves them from any awkwardness when they ask a human to touch their buttocks. Humans are not so lucky, and when asked by a robot to touch part of its body, humans will get uncomfortable if that body part is generally thought of as private.In...

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Calais 'Jungle' stragglers and minors spend another night at camp

At least 80 migrants including children have spent the night in shelters that remain in the now otherwise deserted Calais "Jungle" camp.France and the UK have traded accusations about the children's treatment.Two large fires broke out on Friday morning at the camp, from...

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Meeting ‘the Other’ Face to Face

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Sitting in a conference room at a hotel near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology here, I slip on large headphones and an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and wriggle into the straps of a backpack, weighed down with a computer and a battery....

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Florida just announced that mosquitoes are probably transmitting Zika in the US

The State of Florida has confirmed four cases of Zika infection in a small Miami neighbourhood, and announced over the weekend that they were likely caused by mosquito bites.This makes Florida the first state in the continental United States to experience a local transmission...

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China's actually built that awesome bus that drives over traffic

Engineers have finally completed a full-scale moving mock-up of China's wacky transport idea, the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB), a large straddling bus that allows cars to drive underneath it.The prototype was unveiled on Tuesday in Hebei province’s Qinhuangdao city.The TEB...

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