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The solace of quantum

At the moment cryptography concentrates on making the decrypting part as hard as possible. The industry standard, known as RSA (after its inventors, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), relies on two keys, one public and one private.
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Apple 'avoided billions in tax'

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Apple uses a "highly questionable" web of offshore entities to avoid paying billions in US income taxes, a Senate committee alleged on Monday....
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PayPal security boss: Obliterate passwords from THE PLANET

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Get used to fingerprint, eyeball scanners, warns exec.PayPal has declared war on the password - and wants a better way for folks to perform open sesame on their own internet accounts....
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Huawei's Ascend P2 is coming to Three next month

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Huawei seems to confirm this, saying that the Ascend P2 will be available in June at a number of mobile retailers and networks. It will also be offered in both black and white, but there are no details on pricing yet....
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Twitter...

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A survey of a "month in the life of Twitter" has been mapped to show the distribution of languages used in tweets around the world....
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Winston Churchill To Appear On New £5 Notes

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Former British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill is to appear on the next banknotes, it has been announced....
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The three men from the United Arab Emirates are said to have been removed from the Jenadrivah Heritage & Culture Festival in Riyadh because they were "too handsome". ...
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Password use risks online security

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Ofcom's study found 55% of adult internet users use the same password, while 26% say they tend to use easy to remember passwords such as birthdays or names, potentially opening themselves to account hacking. A quarter (26%) said they have problems remembering passwords....
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What happens to my pension when I die?

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Investors will get their money back if they die within 90 days of buying a pension annuity with Aviva. This is great news, but what happens otherwise? ...
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