Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Business Insider Hundreds of lives | Unrest in Xinjiang, the Chinese region bordering Kazakhstan that is home to many Uighurs, has cost hundreds of lives in recent years. Beijing blames Islamist militants, while human rights groups say harsh controls on the religion and culture of the Uighurs have led to the violenc...
Forecasting China's smog seen as business opportunity for IBM and Microsoft The Guardian The technology companies are aiming to tap the potentially lucrative market in as China seeks to manage its notorious urban pollution problem | Two of the world’s largest technology firms, IBM and Microsoft, are vying to tap the fast-growing market for forecasting air quality in the world’s top ...
Some Microsoft contract workers to be out of a job today The Seattle Times Contract workers who require access to Microsoft’s buildings or corporate network are subject to a rule that takes effect Jan. 1 and may cause many to be out of work. ... ...
Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Topix Microsoft experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China's Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular - but it decided not to tell th...
Microsoft to warn users if it thinks governments are trying to hack into their accounts Stars and Stripes Microsoft this week said it will warn consumers if it suspects governments are trying to hack into their accounts to access things, including Outlook email and the company's cloud-storage service OneDrive. | The company already informs users if it be...
Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack: former employees asiatimes (From Reuters) | Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but...
Scientific breakthroughs in 2015 that could change the world The Independent Growing a “brain in a dish”, the prospect of creating designer babies, and the possibility of detecting the first signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence – these are just some of the most important scientific news stories of 2015, according to some of the world’s leading scholars celebrating the year’s achievements. | The question posed t...
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Russia could go 100% renewable in 15 years and save tons of energy costs in the process Business Insider See Also | Russia could go 100% renewable by 2030, and cut their energy costs by 20%, say researchers. A study found that the cheapest option for Russia and Central Asia in the long term is to go renewable, based on the abundance of resources in the continent. | The researchers, from Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland, modeled an ene...
