Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I think the biggest pan we have in our kitchen is about 15l (about three and a quarter gallons). We use it for batch cooking. But what is the biggest pot you have in your kitchen? Of course, regular readers of “Because It’s Friday”, know that this question is heading …
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The Richter Scale of earthquake strength is something we are all unfortunately acquainted with and it is also something that most of us get completely wrong. For a start the Richter Scale is no longer used! Watch this xkcd video and learn how much power the Death Star generated. For …
This is not a theatre story but a space story. NASA’s first commercial co-operation Moon lander, landed on the Moon this week, but not really as planned. The Odysseus, built by Intuitive Machines, to carry six NASA experiments to the Moon, hit too hard, skidded to halt and boke one …
Let’s start today with the fact that Google says there are far too many characters in my title. The Google appointed SEO gods are only happy if your title has no more 60 characters because they care about * their users. Here comes another quote from today’s video “Google is …
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Two bits of retro tech this week with thirty years between them – both of which we take for granted today – just look at the dash of the modern VW above. First navigation. Second photography. Have a good weekend – wherever you are going or whatever you are photographing. …
The whole time I was writing for my Masters I was concerned that the “Plagiarism Police” would jump up and say I had copied. There was even a tool you could use – provided by the university – to check papers before you submitted them, which was of marginal help …
Is it too early for Easter? I came across this article following the release of some Apple patches this week, as I was interested how Apple’s tvOS could be compromised by hackers. So I did some research and this was one of the articles Google gave me: The Virus Inside …
