Digital legacy: what happens to your accounts when you die
Most online accounts are licences that end at death rather than property that passes under a will, so platform tools such as Apple's Legacy…
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Amelia Hart
Technology Correspondent
Amelia Hart covers artificial intelligence, consumer tech and the platform economy. She has written about the technology industry for more than a decade.
What end-to-end encryption actually protects and what it does not
End-to-end encryption secures messages in transit between devices, but metadata, cloud backups and compromised handsets remain exposed…
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The James Webb telescope: what it has actually changed
Webb's real legacy is not imagery but overturned assumptions: galaxies too big and too bright barely 300 million years after the Big Bang…
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Why software updates break things: the hidden economics of patching
Every patch trades a known security hole for unknown regressions, and modern dependency chains mean a faulty kernel-level update can ground…
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How universities are funded, and why so many are cutting courses
A frozen domestic fee, a reliance on international students and loss-making research explain most of the financial distress now visible…
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How forensic DNA evidence actually works in court
A courtroom DNA 'match' is a statistical statement about how rare a profile is, not proof that a named person committed a crime, and…
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How recommendation algorithms decide what you watch next
Streaming and video platforms rank content by predicted engagement rather than quality or stated preference, using two-stage…
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Rewilding versus farming: the land-use argument splitting the countryside
Britain must grow food, store carbon and recover nature on the same finite land, and the rewilding argument is really about which acres…
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T Levels explained: the qualification trying to be both A-levels and an apprenticeship
T Levels pair classroom study with a substantial industry placement in one two-year technical package, and their success rests on placement…
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