Month: November 2017
‘Break up Google and Facebook if you ever want innovation again’ • The Register
BBC News: Apple rushes to fix major password bug
‘We can’t compete’: why universities are losing their best AI scientists | Science | The Guardian
It was the case of the missing PhD student.
As another academic year got under way at Imperial College London, a senior professor was bemused at the absence of one of her students. He had worked in her lab for three years and had one more left to complete his studies. But he had stopped coming in.
Eventually, the professor called him. He had left for a six-figure salary at Apple.
“He was offered such a huge amount of money that he simply stopped everything and left,” said Maja Pantic, professor of affective and behavioural computing at Imperial. “It’s five times the salary I can offer. It’s unbelievable. We cannot compete.”
Computer science GCSE in disarray after tasks leaked online – BBC News
The new computer science GCSE has been thrown into disarray after programming tasks worth a fifth of the total marks were leaked repeatedly online.
Exams regulator Ofqual plans to pull this chunk of the qualification from the overall marks as it has been seen by thousands of people.
The electricity used to mine bitcoin this year is bigger than the annual usage of 159 countries
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Uber Is Under Investigation By Multiple States Over a 2016 Data Breach
Study of Recent Interstellar Asteroid Reveals Bizarre Shape
Study of Recent Interstellar Asteroid Reveals Bizarre Shape – http://www.slashdot.org/story/333913
Google Collects Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled
Google Collects Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled – http://www.slashdot.org/story/333923
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