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Fake work sites could be the next thing
Jobfishing working for nothing
A 21st-century problem could be virtual companies which are not real but basically scam employees.
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Phew. Philips Hue is a bridge too far
Opinion: Hue. And cry
Tech readers up on stuff will know that earlier this month Philips discontinued support for its first Hue bridge - V1, so its app no longer works. Or anything. It means you have to spend quite a lot more.
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BBC has no idea about its own computer systems
And it doesn't want us to know, either
A Fudzilla Freedom of Information( FOI) request to the BBC about how many computers it has and which operating systems it uses has drawn a complete blank.
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BBC thinks Alexa, Home and Siri bypass journo standards
Call for transparency
BBC executive Mukul Devichand, who is heading up the corporation's AI efforts, said at a Huawei event in Paris that “smart” assistants like Google Home, Alexa and Apple Siri ran the risk of becoming content editors.
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British broadcasters team up to create NetFlix rival
Birth of BritBox
British broadcaster ITV is teaming up with publicly-funded rival the BBC to create “BritBox”, a UK rival to subscription streaming service Netflix.
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Trump lashes out at Google
News is a tricky business
Donald Trump has taken a swipe at giant search engine Google, accusing it of being the peddler of what he likes to describe as fake news.
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BBC, Roku locked in deadly embrace
Updated! We can rock you, baby
People using the BBC iPlayer and a number of streaming products are finding themselves between a Roku and a hard place.
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Huddle lets in outsiders
Office collaboration tool was wide open
The BBC discovered a security flaw in the office collaboration tool Huddle that led to private documents being exposed to unauthorised parties.
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H.265/HEVC video compression standard 50 percent better
H.264/AVC is so slow
BBC engineers have revealed their research into H.265/HEVC video compression and claim that it is 50 per cent better than the older H.264/AVC standard.
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BBC shows off new microcontroller
Packed full of open source goodness
The BBC has shown the final design of its Micro Bit educationally-targeted microcontroller.