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Why grandparents should talk to children about the natural world of their youth 0
- BUSINESS
- September 2, 2020
How often do you strike up a conversation with an older relative about the past? You might switch off when someone begins a sentence with “back in my day…”, but that story could provide some very valuable information – particularly if you’re interested in ecology. It’s hard to fathom how much the natural world has
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Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly via TCP, UDP. Obviously, nothing can’t go wrong • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 22, 2020
Now that web safety has been completely solved, Google’s Chromium team has proposed a way to allow web apps to establish direct TCP and UDP network connections, a powerful capability that could complicate web security. The Raw Sockets API, which may end up being renamed the Direct Sockets API, represents an attempt to give browser
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You must talk about NoSQL DBaaS club. And Couchbase is in • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 30, 2020
Couchbase’s database-as-a-service product has hit general availability – although this is just on Amazon Web Services initially, with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform soon to follow. The document-oriented database will be available as a service in the public cloud providers, but also on virtual private cloud deployments on AWS, which the vendor behind the
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TALK OF THE TOWN: It’s the First WAG War as Coleen Rooney plans to sue Rebekah Vardy 0
- BUSINESS
- May 9, 2020
The WAG war between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy is about to go nuclear. The footballers’ wives are at loggerheads after Coleen accused Rebekah of leaking stories about her last year, and the pair held a video meeting last week in a last-ditch attempt to avoid a very public and expensive court hearing. But I
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Conservatives talk tough on cybercrime in their 2019 manifesto | Business 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- November 27, 2019
Launched Sunday, the Conservative and Unionist Party’s manifesto is the shortest of the three main parties, clocking in at 64 pages. While a shortened manifesto means some policies might be light on detail – “we will encourage innovative design and technology to make housing more affordable” is one such example – the Tories have proposed
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Three reasons why we need to talk about the mental health of political leaders 0
- BUSINESS
- November 4, 2019
As the impeachment investigation gathers pace on Capitol Hill, some commentators have argued that if Donald Trump remains the Republican presidential candidate in 2020, there is no way the election could be deemed legitimate. Whole swathes of US and global opinion were horrified by Trump’s election in 2016 and feared the consequences. A vocal minority,
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