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All WiFi  networks' are vulnerable to hacking, security expert discovers: The security protocol used to protect the vast majority of WiFi connections has been broken, potentially exposing wireless internet traffic to malicious eavesdroppers and attacks, according to the researcher who discovered the weakness. Mathy Vanhoef, a security expert at Belgian university KU Leuven, discovered the weakness in the wireless security protocol WPA2,  and published details of the flaw on Monday morning . “Attackers can use this novel attack technique to read information that was previously assumed to be safely encrypted,” Vanhoef said. “This can be abused to steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, photos and so on. Vanhoef emphasised that  “ the attack works against all modern protected WiFi networks. Depending on the network configuration, it is also possible to inject and manipulate data. For example, an attacker might be able

NDM: The decline in newspapers - MM case studies

1) What was the New Day trying to achieve? overall they are trying to create something different from  their daily paper. Something very  different. A small group of us set about coming up with a new kind of ideas; therefore are going to let them develop new range of news articles that the consumers actually find interesting and enticing to read. On the other hand the advantage of doing this is going to lead the news paper industry to reinforcing the traditional conventions of the newspaper which is what New Day is going to achieve by investing its time in what the people actually want.  2) List the key statistics on the first page: how many people buy newspapers in the UK? Within the article it states the way the paper has actually declined and suggest why the consumers wish they have a change in the way they see the news paper How has this declined in the last year?   About six million people buy  a newspaper in Britain every day. Sitting down and flicking  through the paper with

NDM: The decline in newspapers - MM case studies

On your blog, create a blogpost called 'The future of newspapers' and  write a paragraph  summarising the argument the article makes. Then answer the following questions: From the following article I was able to understand how majorly affected the newspaper is actually becoming meaning that they are going to have to either completely reinforce the paper in a new way which is one of the few ways that the newspaper institution will have to incorporate within the industry to ensure that it does not die out. On the other hand In his book “The Vanishing Newspaper”, Philip Meyer calculates that the first quarter of 2043 will be the moment when newsprint dies in America as the last exhausted reader tosses aside the last crumpled edition.  Which only suggest that the newspaper is going to become obsolete for the rich world newspapers which will soon become an endangered element to the corporate world. 1) Do you agree with its view that it is ‘a cause for concern, but not for panic

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai: 'I don't know whether humans want change that fast': From artificial intelligence to cheap smartphones, Google is on the frontline of technological development. But is it growing too big and moving too fast? A rare interview with Google’s boss by  Jemima Kiss It took five years for his family to get their first rotary telephone, when Pichai was 12. It was a landmark moment. “It would take me 10 minutes to call the hospital, and maybe they’d tell me, ‘No, come back tomorrow’,” Pichai says. “We waited a long time to get a refrigerator, too, and I saw how my mom’s life changed: she didn’t need to cook every day, she could spend more time with us. So there is a side of me that has viscerally seen how technology can make a difference, and I still feel it. I feel the optimism and energy, and the moral imperative to accelerate that progress.” Now 45, Pichai is a tall, slight man whose voice is a soft harmony of Indian and American accents. Sit

NDM case study: How has news changed?

1) Read this  Ofcom 2016 report on the consumption of news in the UK . Note down the key statistics and changes that Ofcom document.  The ofcom report provides the findings of Ofcom’s 2016 research into news consumption across television, radio, print and online.  News Consumption Survey methodology-• The News Consumption Survey is a face-to-face omnibus survey conducted by Kantar. 2894 interviews were carried out, including boosts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to ensure a minimum of 350 respondents in each. Data is weighted to reflect the UK population.  Interviews were conducted between 19th October – 8 th November 2016. there was a significant these differences are at a 95% confidence level.  on the other hand the most common form of media used today is nowadays's is TV is the most-used platform for news nowadays (used by 69% of adults), the internet has seen a considerable increase in use compared to 2015 (48% vs. 41%).   2) What are the most popular platforms

Las Vegas shooting: death toll rises to 50 as police name suspect – latest updates

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https://youtu.be/e-YkIjADCPY Las Vegas shooting: death toll rises to 50 as police name suspect – latest updates At least 50 people have been killed  and more than 200 injured at a country music festival in Las Vegas, in the worst mass shooting in US history. Two police officers are among the dead. The shooter was named by police as Stephen Paddock, 64 . Several rifles were found in his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, from where he fired multiple rounds at concertgoers at the Route 91 harvest country music festival. Paddock was described as a “lone wolf” with no known links to terrorist groups.  His motives are unknown.   A Swat team used a controlled explosion to enter his hotel room before shooting him dead. in my opinion i think that we would have not been able to get a perspective of what happened without citizen journalism which mean that overall this means we are able to experience what they did first hand when we see the videos.

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iPhone 8 review: so this is what good battery life feels like : t h e iPhone 8 Plus might have some fancy camera tricks up its sleeve, but is it really worth buying its bulky frame ahead of its sleeker rivals or the potential of the   iPhone X ? Like its smaller non-Plus sibling, the design of the  iPhone 8  Plus has barely changed since it was introduced in 2014 with the iPhone 6 Plus, but it has aged worse. The iPhone 6 Plus was thin but relatively wide and tall for a smartphone with a 5.5in screen in 2014, with big bezels and a chunky top and bottom. In my opinion i find that the new iPhone 8 is exactly the same as the older the model but the only different is the fact that these are the same phones but they have small changes that make them different to the previous phones but the market/audience will spend ages waiting to be one of the first to get the phone.