by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Oct 13, 2020 | Sky News
Hackney Council has reported a data breach after being hit by what it described as a “serious cyber attack” on Tuesday morning, which is still affecting many of its services and IT systems. The council says it is working with the UK’s National Cyber...
by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Oct 12, 2020 | Sky News
Receiving an unexpected knock on the front door in the early hours of the morning does not usually bring good news – but it is how one man found out he had won a Nobel Prize. Economist Paul Milgrom won the prize for economics, alongside his colleague Robert...
by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Oct 12, 2020 | Sky News
Facebook has updated its policies to prohibit content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust” – just two years after Mark Zuckerberg suggested such posts were permissible under freedom of speech. The social network says it will also re-direct anyone...
by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Oct 12, 2020 | Sky News
The virus that causes COVID-19 can survive on surfaces including mobile phones and banknotes for up to four weeks, according to new research. Australia’s national science agency CSIRO found that Sars-CoV-2 was “extremely robust” at 20C (68F), or room...
by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Oct 11, 2020 | Sky News
A tuberculosis (TB) vaccine given to more than 100 million babies each year could help adults fight coronavirus, health experts have said, after trials showed it stimulates the immune system. Some 10,000 people in the UK will be recruited to investigate whether the...