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Downtime
Taking a look at the lighter side of IT - technology may be a serious business but it rarely fails to raise a smile too.
February 2016
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Mind the (data) gap
- Editor in chief 25 Feb 2016 -
Football fans prove to be more obsessed by teams than tech
- Business Editor 25 Feb 2016 -
Graduate from plastic to software
- Managing Editor 10 Feb 2016
Londoners were all a-twitter this week when a "software bug" apparently caused the London Underground API to tell all the apps that use its live transport data that every Tube line in the capital ...
The younger generation are so obsessed with technology they've been given the hotly debated label "digital natives" who go nowhere without at least one device glued to their person. But what the ...
In the Mike Nichols 1967 classic The Graduate, Mr Maguire tells Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin, "There is a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?So nearly half a century on, ...
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Ninety nine million year old spider with nine legs discovered
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 03 Feb 2016 -
A drone in the claw is worth two in the bush
- Managing Editor 01 Feb 2016
Scientists thought for a moment that they had made the momentous discovery of a spider with nine legs, but were disappointed to find the said arachnid actually had a hard-on.Not just a hard-on, but ...
The Dutch police has launched an initiative to target drones. We've some people use air rifles to shoot down drones. Now here's a totally natural alternative: a proper bird of prey who will happily ...