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Jaguar boss defends rebrand after backlash – as new electric car revealed | UK News
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Jaguar wants “to be bold and disruptive” with its new electric car and redesign, the luxury vehicle maker’s managing director told Sky News. The British car maker sparked widespread controversy last month when it unveiled its rebrand ahead of becoming a fully electric brand. Speaking to Sky News business and economics correspondent Gurpreet Narwan, managing…
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HS2 boss reveals £100m bill for a railway line ‘bat shed’ that ‘isn’t needed’ | Money News
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HS2 is spending more than £100m on a “shed” to protect bats on a section of the line, even though there is “no evidence that high-speed trains interfere with bats”, the project company’s chairman has said. Sir Jon Thompson said the 1km (0.6 mile) curved structure at Sheephouse Wood in Buckinghamshire will create a barrier…
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British Google AI boss Sir Demis Hassabis among scientists awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry | UK News
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Briton Sir Demis Hassabis has been awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry, jointly with two other scientists. The trio of Sir Demis, as well as Americans Professor David Baker and Dr John Jumper, were honoured on Wednesday for their work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones. The research has helped advances…
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CrowdStrike boss apologises for ‘mistake’ that caused global IT outage | Science & Tech News
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A senior executive at CrowdStrike has apologised for a faulty software update that caused a global IT outage in July. The incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and impacted industries around the globe including banks, health care, media companies and hotel chains. The outage disrupted internet services, affecting 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices. Adam Meyers,…
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Planning laws preventing faster internet, BT boss Marc Allera tells Sky News | Business News
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Planning regulation is slowing down the rollout of faster internet, the chief executive of BT’s consumer division has told Sky News. Planning rules were said to be the “key barrier” to implementing 5G mobile phone signal by BT consumer division CEO Marc Allera. He described the legislation as “very arcane and really not favourable to…
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GCHQ boss says China’s ‘genuine’ cyber threat ‘weakens security of internet for all’ | Science & Tech News
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GCHQ now “devotes more resource to China than any other single mission,” according to the intelligence agency’s director, Anne Keast-Butler. China poses an “epoch-defining challenge” to the UK, she said at CyberUK, the National Cyber Security Centre’s conference in Birmingham. Last week, Sky News discovered China had hacked the Ministry of Defence’s payroll system and…
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Changpeng Zhao: Former boss of world’s largest crypto exchange Binance jailed for allowing money laundering | Business News
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The former boss of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has been jailed for four months for allowing money laundering. The sentence was handed down to Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, nicknamed CZ, after he pleaded guilty to breaching US anti-money laundering laws designed to prevent terrorist financing and funds going to sanctioned countries. The prison term…
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Are Facebook and Instagram still down? Meta boss apologises for ‘technical issue’ which hit thousands of users | Science & Tech News
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Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads suffered widespread problems on Tuesday afternoon, with users locked out of their accounts and pages failing to load properly. Facebook outages reported on Down Detector shot up just before 3pm, with more than 300,000 problems logged. More than 25,000 Instagram outages were also reported via the website, which collates status…
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Tim Sweeney: Who is the gaming boss who took Epic fight to Apple and Google? | Science & Tech News
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When it comes to Fortnite, the winner takes it all. One-hundred players start each match, dressed as their favourite characters and dreaming of glory, but only the last one standing claims victory and earns the right to dance over their opponents. His fight is far from over yet, but the boss of the studio behind…
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Multi-millionaire tech boss Lawrence Jones convicted of raping two women in Manchester in 1990s | UK News
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Multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur Lawrence Jones has been found guilty of raping two women in Manchester in the 1990s. The former UKFast chief executive was convicted in January this year of sexually assaulting another woman in 2013, which could not be reported until today because of court restrictions. He has already spent 10 months behind bars…