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Artificial intelligence has been used to predict the structures of almost every protein made by the human body. The development could help supercharge the discovery of new drugs to treat disease, alongside other applications. Proteins are essential building blocks of living organisms; every cell we have in us is packed with them. Understanding the shapes […]

A group of cyber-security experts is urging companies to set up a way for people to report their workers behaving abusively online. A number of companies have already signed up, two of Respect in Security’s founders say. The initiative launched on Thursday. Lisa Forte, of Red Goat Cyber Security, says she has received unsolicited explicit […]

Proposed changes to EU law would force companies that transfer Bitcoin or other crypto-assets to collect details on the recipient and sender. The proposals would make crypto-assets more traceable, the EU Commission said, and would help stop money-laundering and the financing of terrorism. The new rules would also prohibit providing anonymous crypto-asset wallets. The proposals […]

Video conferencing firm Zoom has struck a multibillion dollar deal to buy a cloud-based call centre operator in a bet on the future of hybrid working. The firm announced the $14.7bn (£10.7bn) acquisition of Five9 in a blog post on Sunday. Zoom boss Eric Yuan said the deal would allow its customers to “reimagine the […]

Rights activists, journalists and lawyers around the world have been targeted with phone malware sold to authoritarian governments by an Israeli surveillance firm, media reports say. They are on a list of up to 50,000 phone numbers of people believed to be of interest to clients of the company, NSO, leaked to major news outlets. […]

WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will let people message without using their phone for the first time. At present, WhatsApp is linked to a user’s phone. Its desktop and web apps need that device to be connected and receiving messages. But the new feature will let users send and receive messages “even if […]

Microsoft has announced a new “cloud PC” product where users can stream a Windows device from anywhere. Windows 365 will work similarly to game streaming – where the computing is done in a data centre somewhere remotely and streamed to a device. That means all sorts of devices – including tablets or Apple Macs – […]

Websites for a Russian-linked ransomware gang blamed for attacks on hundreds of businesses worldwide have gone offline. Monitors say a payment website and a blog run by the REvil group became suddenly unreachable on Tuesday. The reason behind the disappearance is unknown, but has sparked speculation that the group may have been targeted deliberately by […]

Heathrow’s Terminal 5 saw long queues at security on Monday morning because of the absence of more than 100 staff. The airport said the issue had arisen because the security staff were instructed to self-isolate by the NHS Test and Trace app. Some passengers experienced lengthy queues from 06:00. Many complained that there was limited […]

If you are less focused on climbing the corporate ladder since the coronavirus crisis forced more of us to work from home, you are not alone. That is according to a study by Aviva, which found 47% of employees were less career-focused because of the pandemic. Around two in five people said they could never […]