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Slide Show: Be wary of these U.K. stocks ahead of general election, fund managers say

With the May 7 U.K. general election approaching fast, polls indicate a neck-and-neck race between Conservatives and the Labour Party, creating lots of anxiety about the structure of the future government and its impact on U.K. businesses and financial markets.

Mar 30, 2015

Artificial Intelligence Could Have Prevented The Germanwings Crash

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No level of security screening short of mind-reading could have prevented the crash of Germanwings flight 9525. But what can be done. The New York Times editorial today calls for the American standard that requires two crew members be in the cockpit at all times to be adopted by "all airlines." This…

Mar 27, 2015

Building Internet Of Things Robots: Microsoft Opens Visual Studio To Node.js

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Microsoft’s approach to openness is continuing positively; from a software application development perspective at least. Naysayers will still argue that it’s too little, too late and that it is perhaps ‘too strategically contrived to warrant base-zero validation’ from a purist open source…

Mar 26, 2015

60% of U.S. IT Decision Makers Trust The Cloud With Sensitive Data

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54% of IT decision makers globally reported keeping sensitive information in the cloud. Cloud environments (46%) outpace databases (37%) and file servers (29%) as the location perceived as being the greatest risk by enterprise organizations. 80% of enterprises globally are making use of cloud…

Mar 26, 2015

Former Tesla Intern Releases $60 Full Open Source Car Hacking Kit For The Masses

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A former Tesla intern is releasing open source hardware and software that make car hacking incredibly cheap and more accessible. It's part of a wider movement to get as many researchers as possible probing vehicles for vulnerabilities, in the hope of avoiding road disasters.

Mar 25, 2015

Can Delhi Learn From Beijing On How To Deal With Air Pollution?

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High on the list of Delhi's many problems is one of air pollution. There have been ample stories in the media about how this city has the dirtiest air in the world (including a story that claimed that US President Barack Obama could lose six hours of his life after spending three days breathing in…

Mar 25, 2015