Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I spotted this article in The Conversation – volcanoes in space – just the type of story I like for Because It’s Friday, to ease us all into the weekend. Four volcanic hotspots in the Solar System (theconversation.com) The image above is of a volcano on Io, the most volcanically …
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This was published on xkcd last Friday – just missing the Because It’s Friday publishing deadline – so you got hot computers rather than flat planets! Flatten the Planets – xkcd.com Saturn is actually the flattest planet – Google it. I could have chosen from NASA’s huge collection of high …
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My i7 laptop when working hard generates a lot of heat. To keep the processor and the other components cool, the all metal case is part of the cooling system and consequently it soon warms up when I am using the computer. Under some usage, it warms up so much …
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So do you know? Spoiler it is not daisies. This post came about because this odd question came up on Richard Osman’s House of Games – and I just had to check it out. The answer is raspberries – it is to do with the hunt, by astronomers for amino …
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We are back to space this week – but not looking at a NASA mission or amazing images from a space telescope. No this week we are going to look at “life on Mars”! I came across this site whilst researching stories for Smart Thinking this week. I could not …
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