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What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?
Digital & Computing

What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?

...data. Most recently, in the wake of the March attack at Westminster, Amber Rudd, the UK home secretary, said it was unacceptable that the government couldn’t read the encrypted messages of suspected terrorists. [The Conversation] The main argument behind this request is that access to messages will allow authorities to thwart future terror attacks. On the other hand,...
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Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one
Science, Maths & Technology

Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one

...data associated with the image is. Like most digital photos, the image has associated EXIF data usually used to store information about the type of camera and lens used to take the photo, the exposure settings, the location and so on. This image contains fake EXIF longitude and latitude data; VPNFilter extracts six numbers from this fake EXIF to form a valid IP number –...
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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...data sets. During the training process, LLMs learn the statistical relationships between words in the training set. In the case of ChatGPT, this eventually amounted to some 175 billion relationships derived from 45 terabytes of text. Given the enormous volumes of data being processed, most of this training process is completely automated; running for months on giant...
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Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...data or be responsive to gestures. A previous iteration, Circadia, was much larger, about the size of a bar of soap; initially, after getting the thing implanted in his arm, Cannon complained of panic attacks, and when the battery stopped working, he had it removed. In a procedure that made implanting magnets look like child’s play, Österlund embedded the watch-sized...
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Spark it up!
Science, Maths & Technology

Spark it up!

...NOTE: This interactive was originally created for the broadcast of Shock & Awe: The Story of Electricity in 2011, therefore some of the data may not be up to date. [Spark it up launcher ] Launch Spark it Up Click the image above to launch the Spark it Up game. Take your learning further with our Engineering the future course. Try this free taster on superconductivity....
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Sex stats for the British population
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sex stats for the British population

...data collected by Natsal-4, a survey collected from thousands of adults living all over Britain...Find out more about The Open University’s statistics qualifications. Please check back in the autumn of 2026, when the updated interactive with the findings from Natsal-4 will be published. If you want to learn more about the research behind this interactive, check out...
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Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...data as showing that HSTF genes in lizards are not induced by heat shock. Western analysis using antibodies to human Hsp70 showed that levels of cellular Hsp70 are higher in both desert species than in Lacerta (Figure 44b). Earlier work had measured a three- to fivefold higher Hsp70 content in desert species than in L. vivipara kept at T a 25°C. Comparison of Lacerta...
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Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?

...data - so you'd assume it'd be easy to tell if a game has been rigged on the whim of a shady gambling syndicate. It's not that easy, though - and as David Lucy explains, it's the same problem that stops us being able to spot rogue doctors and nurses...Match fixing is unthinkable for most sports professionals whose very persons, careers and reputations are built on a...
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