2014年9月22日 星期一

2014-09-23 U.K. Spotlight

  BBC News   
Google and Apple to introduce default encryption  BBC News
Google has announced that its next mobile operating system, Android L, will encrypt users' data by default. The measure will make it more difficult for private information to be hacked or handed to law enforcement agencies. On Thursday, Apple said that ...


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You may not want to hear this, but Tony Blair is right about ISIL  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
It is – in short – that there is a global threat from militant Islamism. That it is spreading – and it is getting worse. And that we must act. It is clear that there is a fundamental problem with radical Islamism; clear that it is deep; clear that the solutions are not easy or ...


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Ed Miliband will struggle to answer the English question  Financial Times
To understand Ed Miliband's predicament, conjure this scene. His Labour party wins next year's UK general election without a parliamentary majority in England. Soon, his 40 or so MPs with Scottish seats are voting through bills on education and healthcare ...


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  BBC News   
Scientists debate polar sea-ice opposites  BBC News
Arctic sea ice has passed its minimum summer extent, say polar experts meeting in London. The cover on 17 September dipped to 5.01 million sq km, and has risen slightly since then, suggesting the autumn re-freeze has now taken hold. This year's minimum ...


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The size of the financial black hole is incomprehensible. So Labour has opted ...  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
It was about half way through Ed Balls' conference speech that I realised: it's pointless. Utterly, utterly pointless. Labour's shadow chancellor had just got to the section where he said “We know there would have been tough decisions on tax, spending and pay ...


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  New Scientist   
Looming quakes may be betrayed by groundwater changes  New Scientist
Changes in the chemical make-up of underground water may be a warning that an earthquake is on the way. This is not a new idea, but it is a difficult one to prove. Seismologists have seen changes in levels of radon gas, concentrations of dissolved elements ...


   

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Scottish independence: Guide to Scotland referendum night  BBC News
Voters in Scotland will go to the polls in the independence referendum on 18 September. But what will happen, when? And what time is a result expected on 19 September? When does counting begin? An overnight count will begin immediately after polls ...


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Britain is built on a Roman skeleton  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
60 years ago this month, 400,000 Londoners flocked to the City of London to see a newly-unearthed Roman temple. Us doom and gloom merchants like to think we were higher-minded in the 1950s. I'm sure we were – but I bet a similar discovery today would ...


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  New Scientist   
Ripples from dawn of creation vanish in a puff of dust  New Scientist
A sprinkle of stardust has probably skewered what looked like one of the biggest scientific results of the year. In March, the BICEP2 collaboration claimed to have discovered the first evidence of ripples in space-time hailing from the birth of the universe.

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Modi tackles India's 'Licence Raj' with a thousand cuts  Financial Times
In 1863, a boiler exploded in Kolkata, killing several people and prompting a new rule for regular inspections of potentially hazardous steam boilers. In 1923, India's colonial administration passed a new Indian Boilers Act to harmonise boiler rules across the ...


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