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NEWS 
November 22, 2021 Not Yet on Track: Climate Threat Demands More Ambitious Global Action
In 1785, Robert Burns reflected on how humanity has come to dominate our planet: “I’m truly sorry man’s dominion, has broken nature’s social union,” he wrote. The Scottish poet’s words still ring true two centuries later. Man-made climate change threatens our planet’s ecosystem and the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. From the IMF perspective, […]
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COMPUTERS 
November 9, 2017 Quantum Computers Pose Imminent Threat to Bitcoin Security
Bitcoin is taking the world by storm. The decentralized digital currency is a secure payment platform that anybody can use. It is free from government interference and operated by an open, peer-to-peer network. This independence is one reason Bitcoin has become so popular, causing its value to rise steeply. At the beginning of 2017, a single […]
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NEWS 
July 11, 2017 Poker-Winning Machine Is No Threat to Humans
I didn’t worry too much when computers beat humans at checkers, chess, or Go. It was, after all, only a matter of time before someone built a powerful computer with a vast database of known game situations. But now that machines are beating professionals at poker – a game of imperfect information – a question must […]
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ALL DEALS 
January 3, 2017 What Is Doxxing and Is It a Threat to Your Small Business?
When it comes to privacy issues, much of the press focuses on companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. Unfortunately, that focus often ends up being a distraction from the real offenders. For the most part, we consider Facebook to be a self-inflicted wound since the content is typically posted by the individual themselves. However, it […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 3, 2016 Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Launched for Enterprise
Addressing the growing security attacks in the enterprise sector, Microsoft on Tuesday announced Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, a new service that aims to help, detect, and respond to advanced attacks on an enterprise’s network. The service, which is designed for Windows 10, will update automatically, and reduce the deployment efforts that are typically the […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 23, 2016 This Is the Biggest Threat to Apple’s Business Around the World
When is selling an iPhone not the same as selling an iPhone? Easy: when you’re selling it in a country whose currency is declining in value. So how many is that? Well, in the last 18 months, it’s been pretty much all of them other than the United States. Indeed, the dollar has shot up […]
