Technology

• 7th December 2018 Harry Hamburg

  It might be good for the world, but it’s not good for us – Mark Zuckerberg

  “It might be good for the world, but it’s not good for us.” – Mark Zuckerberg, 2012 The above quote sums up Facebook’s attitude towards us, its users, and the wider world in general. It comes from the cache of…

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• 29th November 2018 Harry Hamburg

  It’s not often I side with a politician

  Last week I wrote about the global moneymaking sensation that the computer game Fortnite has become. One part I didn’t cover is that users can pay money to give their characters dance moves. If you wonder where this year’s craze…

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• 27th November 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Seven minutes of terror

  By the time you read this, it will all be over. We will know if the InSight has survived its “seven minutes of terror” and successfully landed on Mars. The probe set off from Earth some six months ago and…

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• 15th November 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Llama flu, foldable phones and electric Harley Davidsons

  What happens when you combine bird flu, swine flu and llama flu? A long and healthy life, free from flu – potentially. It turns out that Llama antibodies are particularly suited to killing all known flu strains. And what’s more,…

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• 12th November 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Starlink is coming – and the world isn’t ready

  Which sector has had the biggest impact on our lives over the last few decades? The answer is communications. Perhaps that is a bit broad, but when you think about it, the advancements in communications have created the world as…

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• 2nd November 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Life as we know it

  Get born. Go to school. Study hard. Get a good job. Marry. Have kids. Work for 45 years. Retire. Die. This is the routine life of a “successful” person. The reason I’ve put successful in quotation marks is because, in…

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• 31st October 2018 Harry Hamburg

  What is 2FA and should you be using it? Part II

  Yesterday I talked about two-factor authentication and why you should be using it on your most important online accounts. Today I’m explaining how to get started with 2FA, which services you can use it for, and the common pitfalls you…

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• 30th October 2018 Harry Hamburg

  What is 2FA and should you be using it?

  Last week I wrote about a new internet scam doing the rounds. This attack is particularly clever and really plays on people’s emotions in order to get them to send the hacker money. Or bitcoin, in this case. As I…

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• 29th October 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Man who spent ten years in a wheelchair is cured with his own stem cells

  It seems there may be some truth in the whole organic food movement. Last week the results of a 69,000 person study revealed people who eat organic are 25% less likely to get cancer. From The Times: Researchers say that…

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• 25th October 2018 Harry Hamburg

  The anatomy of a near-perfect internet scam – which you’ve likely been targeted by

  Over the last week or so, a particularly clever scam email has been circulating. There’s a good chance you or someone you know has had this exact email in the last few weeks, or some variation of it. The email…

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