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Direct link to WHO report on Coronavirus in China
One of the great advantages of the internet is that we don’t need to rely in journalists to interpret things for us – we can read the source documents and draw our own conclusions. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf One highlight, Individuals at highest risk for severe disease and death include people aged over 60 years and those with…
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The spectacular power of Big Lens
I used to read the Guardian in order to challenge my settled opinions but in the end I gave up because it is just too annoying. However this is an excellent article about technology and consolidation in the spectacles industry and the potential benefits and risks to the global health. If you have been wearing…
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Support My School Goes Live
All businesses like to have several fund raising streams so that they can defer the risk of falling income from one of them. This problem is particularly acute in the state maintained education sector where both the income and expenditure is decided by political whim. To help address this challenge I have created a new…
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Bell’s Theorem and Quantum Computing
One of the themes of the history of science is that topics that were obscure in the past “suddenly” become critically important. A current example is the esoteric science that allows quantum computing. Quantum computing relies on the fact that a pair of particles can be entangled in a singlet state and until they are…
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Your Smartphone Could Detect Breast Cancer
A tourist has told of her “life-changing” visit to the Camera Obscura in Edinburgh after one of its thermal cameras detected she had breast cancer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-50139540 This raises the possibility of creating a very low cost breast screening programme using smartphones. Add-on infrared (thermal) cameras for smartphones already exist and it would be simple to…
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A Tech Stack for a Start-up
I am a fan of IndieHackers and one of the members posted an great article about their own tech stack https://www.indiehackers.com/article/how-i-chose-my-startup-stack-d9bc800e2a My own start-up, CryptoStar uses WordPress as the key platform. This is a good choice for a solo developer because of the huge number of high quality and inexpensive open-source plug-ins that can be…
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Afternoon event on avoiding crypto scams
I am going to an afternoon event next Friday 4th October called “How to Scam People in Crypto and Avoid being scammed). The speakers look interesting and I know On Yavin from Cointelligence. How to Scam People in Crypto (and How to Avoid Being Scammed) (affiliate link)
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Should Managers or HR hire?
Most of my work has been for smaller organisations in highly competitive environments. In these organisations HR is not an empowered function and most hiring is done personally by managers. In larger organisations and those that are not subject to much competition for example, the BBC or Microsoft, then HR and their hiring quotas and…
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Integrating Contractors into your O365
Setting up IT for consultants is always a challenge and in the past often the only workable solution was to give them a domain account. Microsoft has done great work over the the past few years in supporting external users better and has now created a toolkit to address this challenge. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/blog/2018/12/06/introducing-microsoft-365-freelance-toolkit-a-solution-to-launch-and-scale-your-freelance-workforce/
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Passwords as an attack surface
Here is an interesting article by Microsoft about passwords as an attack surface. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Your-Pa-word-doesn-t-matter/ba-p/731984 TLDR: Make your users use 2FA (this can include Windows Hello/Biometrics).
Dr James Bayley 