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William Hill looks to football, horseracing to ride out crisis

William Hill said on Friday it is counting on the return of Germany's Bundesliga and horseracing in the UK to turn the odds in its favour, and that it expects…

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Microsoft helps British musicians to replace cancelled gigs with immersive and interactive livestreams

A new initiative to help British artists and musicians replace their cancelled gigs with interactive online performances has been launched by Microsoft. The company has announced the Re:Surface project, which…

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US says Chinese hackers might be targeting virus researchers

Organizations conducting research into COVID-19 may be targeted by computer hackers linked to the Chinese government, according to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Neither agency cited any…

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Hackers threaten to leak sensitive documents about leading personalities

A group of hackers is threatening to leak legal documents from a law firm used by some of the world's biggest celebrities. The first leak of data came last week,…

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Iran-linked hackers recently targeted coronavirus drugmaker Gilead

Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc in recent weeks, according to publicly-available web archives reviewed by Reuters and three cybersecurity researchers, as the…

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Microsoft to invest $1.5 billion in Italy

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would create its first datacentre region in Italy under a $1.5 billion investment plan as the U.S. company expands its cloud computing services to…

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Facebook, YouTube remove ‘Plandemic’ video with ‘unsubstantiated’ coronavirus claims

Facebook Inc and YouTube, the video service of Alphabet Inc’s Google, said that they were removing a video that made medically unsubstantiated claims relating to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The…

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Facebook’s Libra appoints HSBC legal chief as CEO, ‘supreme court’ members announced

Libra Association, the entity managing the Facebook Inc-led effort to build global digital currency Libra, named Stuart Levey as its first chief executive officer. Levey is currently serving…

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Microsoft Reinforces Greece, Cyprus, and Malta Senior Management Team

Microsoft Greece, Cyprus and Malta announces organizational changes in its senior management team, aiming at further strategic development of its partner network and more effective customer support, at a very…

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GoDaddy Confirms Data Breach

The world's largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, with 19 million customers, has disclosed a data breach impacting web hosting account credentials. With more than 19 million customers, 77 million domains managed,…

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Microsoft with full confidence in the New Zealnd’s economy

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the news that Microsoft will make an investment in New Zealand to establish a data centre for its cloud services was welcomed news. "International companies…

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Microsoft Teams proving to be an essential tool to NHS doctors

NHS staff at a major hospital in Southampton are managing the surge in people arriving with Coronavirus symptoms by using technology to quickly find out who has the virus and…

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Facebook launches new ‘care’ emojis for the Facebook and Messenger apps

Facebook announced new set of emojis that are rolling out for the Facebook and Messenger apps and now they’re available on the regular web versions of Facebook. The emojis are…

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Remote work helps Microsoft soften pandemic blow

Microsoft posted a sharp rise in its profits in the latest quarter, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Surpassing Wall Street expectations, the US technology giant reported a fiscal third-quarter profit of…

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U.N. security council members to hold online summit

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have agreed to hold an online five-way summit, proposed by Russian President…

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European carmakers to restart production

Volkswagen will restart production at its Wolfsburg factory in Germany on Monday, the latest of a fleet of European carmakers to take advantage of eased coronavirus lockdown rules to resume…

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The Centre Pompidou launches video game that invites the public to discover some its major works

The Centre Pompidou in Paris, France, is launching Prisme7, its first video game, which invites the public to discover some major works from the collection of the Musée national d’art…

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Zoom makes privacy and security fixes

Zoom will begin rolling out a long-awaited security update this weekend to deal with widespread complaints of video-conferencing interruptions and other potential meeting vulnerabilities, the company said Wednesday. As…

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Google to make verification mandatory for all advertisers

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Thursday all advertisers would have to complete a verification process before buying ad space on its platform, starting this summer, in a bid to make…

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Snapchat shares rise 20% as coronavirus spurs use

Snap Inc beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue and user growth for its Snapchat app, as more people seek entertainment while they stay at home during the global coronavirus…

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UNICEF and Microsoft launch global learning platform to help address COVID-19 education crisis

UNICEF and Microsoft Corp. announced the expansion of a global learning platform to help children and youth affected by COVID-19 continue their education at home. The Learning Passport started off…

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Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years

Apple Inc is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists…

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Hackers exploit coronavirus lockdown with fake Netflix and Disney+ pages

More than 700 fake websites mimicking Netflix and Disney+ signup pages have been created seeking to harvest personal information from consumers during the coronavirus lockdown streaming boom. Netflix, which is…

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Zoom rolls out new measures as security fears mount

Videoconferencing platform Zoom is rolling out a number of measures meant to stem criticism over how it has handled security as users flock to the application during the coronavirus pandemic.…

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India bans Zoom for government remote meetings

India has banned the use of video-conferencing app Zoom for government remote meetings, the government said Thursday, in the latest warning about the platform’s security, The app has become the…

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Hackers target U.S. coronavirus treatment research

A senior FBI cybersecurity official said on Thursday that foreign government hackers have broken into institutions conducting research into treatments for COVID-19, the sometimes fatal respiratory illness caused by the…

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Microsoft making AccountGuard threat notification service available free to healthcare providers worldwide

Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust of Microsoft announced that Microsoft is making its AccountGuard threat notification service available at no cost to healthcare providers on…

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Bill Gates condemns Donald Trump for stopping US payments to WHO

Bill Gates has said Donald Trump's decision to stop US funding of the World Health Organisation "during a world health crisis" is as "dangerous as it sounds". The Microsoft founder…

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Singapore suspends use of Zoom by teachers

Singapore has suspended the use of video-conferencing tool Zoom by teachers after “very serious incidents” in the first week of a coronavirus lockdown that has seen schools move to home-based learning,…

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Coronavirus underscores urgency to bridge digital divide

The world is witnessing one of the swiftest organizational transformations in history as governments and businesses rely heavily on the internet to minimize the disruption caused by lockdowns and…

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Eurojust tackles online fraud and hacking during pandemic

Eurojust is taking action against online fraud and computer hacking by criminal organisations abusing the current COVID 19-crisis. At the request of, for instance, Germany, France and the Czech Republic,…

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US Senate tells members not to use video conferencing app Zoom

The US senate has told members not to use video conferencing app Zoom over security concerns, the Financial Times reports. Senators have been asked to find an alternative platform…

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Zoom apologises for security issues and promises fixes

Zoom is to pause the development of any new features to concentrate on safety and privacy issues, in the wake of criticism from users of the app. In a blog,…

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Google releases location data to show if coronavirus lockdowns working in 131 countries

Alphabet Inc’s Google on Thursday published reports for 131 countries showing whether visits to shops, parks and workplaces dropped in March, when many governments issued stay-at-home orders to rein…

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Zoom videoconferencing app sees a rise in users

Zoom, a free conference calling app, that has reportedly seen a rise in users during the ongoing novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. According to media reports, given a recent unforeseen…

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Microsoft joins effort make ventilators for the NHS

A consortium of major UK industrial, technology and engineering businesses from across the aerospace, automotive and medical sectors has come together to produce medical ventilators for the NHS. Companies including…

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SEO Expert GainChanger Joins Microsoft’s Growing Start-Up Program

SEO remains a difficult science and too expensive or close to impossible to understand how each variable and ranking factor contribute in this highly dynamic environment. Once its mechanisms…

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Govt must support media as it has bigger role to play during crisis – Prof Azzopardi

Prof Andrew Azzopardi has urged Government to set up as soon as possible a financial package that can supports the media during this time of crisis. Prof Azzopardi argued that…

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Facebook steps up efforts to combat the spread of coronavirus misinformation

As a global pandemic takes hold, more people are turning to Facebook in search of news about the coronavirus. But the traffic load on the social media platform is also…

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Protect journalism: Media calls on PM Abela for support

The Institute of Maltese Journalists called on Government for protection by extending aid announced earlier this week to the media industry. The Institute noted that in view of the fact…

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Microsoft says Teams communication app has reached 44 million daily users

Microsoft’s Teams service for calling and chatting with colleagues has over 44 million daily active users, up from 20 million in November, the company said on Thursday. The disclosure puts…

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UK issues guidelines to get the most from your internet

Offices, factories and schools across the world have shut to manage the spread of the coronavirus. And with millions told to "stay at home", this has put pressure on broadband…

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Cybersecurity experts tackle coronavirus-related hacking

An international group of nearly 400 volunteers with expertise in cybersecurity formed on Wednesday to fight hacking related to the novel coronavirus. Called the COVID-19 CTI League, for cyber threat…

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Major telecom companies to help EU track virus

Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Orange and five other telecoms providers have agreed to share mobile phone location data with the European Commission to track the spread of the coronavirus, lobbying…

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Minecraft launches free educational content for children

Minecraft has released a series of free educational sessions that parents can download to help children learn at home. Minecraft Marketplace, which features items and add-ons that people can use…

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Facebook introduces new paid time off programme to allow employees take care of sick relatives

Facebook has introduced new paid time off programs that will allow employees to take up to a month away from work to care for sick relatives in light of the…

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Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft expand partnership to decode COVID-19

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corpand Microsoft Corp. announced they will leverage their existing partnership mapping population-wide adaptive immune responses to diseases at scale to study COVID-19. Finding the relevant immune response signature…

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Facebook to donate 720,000 masks, reaches out to UN

Tech giant Facebook has donated 720,000 masks to US health workers, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said. Mr Zuckerberg said the masks had been bought in case the US wildfires…

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YouTube to reduce its streaming quality in EU and UK to avert internet gridlock

YouTube said on Friday it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union and the United Kingdom to avert internet gridlock as thousands of people work from home. The…

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Facebook admits bug had blocked coronavirus stories

Social media giant Facebook has admitted that a bug in its anti-spam system has blocked a number of links to news stories about the coronavirus, at times marking them as…

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Microsoft launches a coronavirus tracker dashboard on Bing

Microsoft rolled out a new live dashboard to track the COVID-19 outbreak. The company said its aggregating data for the dashboard from trusted sources like the World Health Organization (WHO), the…

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Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board to focus on philanthropy

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company's board to spend more time on philanthropic activities. He says he wants to focus on global health and development, education…

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Microsoft issues app to let staff communicate during a crisis

Microsoft has released an app that allows companies to collaborate more effectively during a crisis. Built by a team of developers in just 48 hours, the Power Apps template has…

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Microsoft helps in new action to disrupt world’s largest online criminal network

Microsoft and partners across 35 countries took coordinated legal and technical steps to disrupt one of the world’s most prolific botnets, called Necurs, which has infected more than nine million…

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Cybercriminals are capitalizing on coronavirus fears

A leading cyber security firm says criminals and a group affiliated with China are capitalizing on growing fears over the coronavirus, leading to a spike in malicious online activity. "They've been…

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MIC Hosted Over 200 Technology Start-Ups Over Past 7 Years

Microsoft Innovation Centre Celebrates Seven Years of Innovation Start-ups have been amongst the main stakeholders of the Microsoft Innovation Centre since it opened its doors in February 2013. Hosting and…

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Microsoft Surface helps authors in the UK write and release short story for kids

Microsoft has teamed up with children’s authors in the UK, Greg James and Chris Smith, to release a digital short story on YouTube to celebrate World Book Day. The free…

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