Breathless reporter probes curbside crapper An after midnight muckspreader who has been terrorising a Dublin neighbourhood has been caught in the act by the very shopkleeper whose forecourt he’d been befouling.…
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Lees meerProviding ISPs have signed 'up to' the voluntary code, that is UK businesses are to receive more accurate data on broadband speeds before signing up to a contract, under a voluntary code coming into force from Ofcom today.…
Lees meerWatch slow drop finale here The European Space Agency is set to crash its Rosetta space probe into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the final stage of its 12-year research mission at 12.18pm BST today (7:18am EDT).…
Lees meerChatbot interaction needs to be 'natural', though Amazon is offering teams of university students the chance to claim their share of a $2.5m prize for developing the best “socialbot” capable of holding a natural language conversation.…
Lees meerGhosts in the Machine Analysis Early next year you should able to buy Nokia phones and BlackBerry phones, two of the giant names of the Noughties. None of these phones will be made by Nokia or BlackBerry, and all of them will be Android phones. The…
Lees meerSentiment analysis might just be useful Comment At Google's Horizon cloud event in San Francisco on Tuesday, the ad giant demonstrated its Cloud Vision API through what it called the GCP Emotobooth. Less of a booth than a corner of a room covered b…
Lees meerDon't believe the marketeers Sysadmin blog Once all the marketing is cleared away, just what is big data, and how does it help real businesses of all sizes? Marketing would have us believe that big data is new, huge, terrifying, complicated, imposs…
Lees meerThat's the one a human drove during its public launch The Ministry of Defence has licensed its Advanced Unmanned Surface Vehicle robot boat tech to roboat biz ASV Global.…
Lees meerClaims bendy battery won't burn, is ideal for credit-card-sized gadgets Panasonic says it's built a bendy Lithium-Ion battery safe enough to be built into “Card devices, devices attached to the human body, smart clothing [and] wristband wearable dev…
Lees meer'We really are serious about the enterprise,' insists enterprise head Greene Analysis The invitation for Google's latest cloud sales pitch, dubbed "Horizon" because the company has already had its way with "Atmosphere", on Thursday directed attende…
Lees meerNuclear-powered laser space tank loves the smell of exotic nenon isotopes in the morning Mars' atmosphere is wafting up from its cold, dead soil, according to new findings from the Curiosity Rover.…
Lees meerSays five-strong 'Group E' may have lifted a billion Yahoo! records, sells to states Five hackers are said to be behind breaches totalling up to a staggering three billion credentials from some of the world's biggest tech companies including the Yah…
Lees meerNew rules in New York to stop American ISPs and power companies charging dead folks The US state of New York has had to pass a law to stop telcos and utility companies from charging fees to the deceased.…
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Lees meerAnd asked on the day EC competition tsar gave speech on 'Big Data and Competition' Salesforce has called on the European Commission to block Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn.…
Lees meerUpgrade tests no longer require you to pass all components, for the sake of balance Microsoft has made a change to the way it marks re-certification exams, removing the requirement to pass all components of a test. The new regime means you'll pass t…
Lees meerAllegedly crocked iKit came preloaded with cracked cheater game app A 24 year-old Tokyo man has been arrested on suspicion of trademark violation for allegedly selling five jailbroken iPhones, local media report.…
Lees meerZerodium triples iOS exploit bounty to $1.5M, doubles 'droid to $200k Exploit broker Zerodium has tripled its bug bounty for a remote iOS 10 jailbreak vulnerability to US$1.5 million.…
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