Tag: Cloud
Derby cloud gathers over Luxembourg after gallops setback for O’Brien
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Luxembourg, the clear favourite for the Derby since his running-on third in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, could miss the Classic at Epsom on 4 June after suffering a setback on the gallops, Aidan O’Brien, the colt’s...
Fire at industrial unit in Berkshire sends huge smoke cloud across motorway
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Fire crews are attending a blaze at an industrial building in Westbrook, Newbury, after an fire sent a huge cloud of smoke across the M4. A Royal Berkshire fire and rescue service spokesperson said: “At 1.41pm on Satu...
Indonesian Semeru volcano spews huge ash cloud – video
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A sudden eruption from the highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java left several villages blanketed with falling ash.The eruption was accompanied by a thunderstorm that spread lava and smou...
Indonesia: one dead as Semeru volcano spews huge ash cloud
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One person has died after the highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java spewed thick columns of ash high into the sky, triggering panic among people living nearby. As well as the fatality, t...
Cryptocurrency miners using hacked cloud accounts, Google warns
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Cyberhackers are using compromised cloud accounts to mine cryptocurrency, Google has warned. Details of the mining hack are contained in a report by Google’s cybersecurity action team, which spots hacking threats agai...
Ash Barty pulls out of Indian Wells, WTA Finals campaign under cloud
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Ash Barty has withdrawn from next week’s Indian Wells Masters event, casting further doubt over whether Australia’s world No 1 will play any more tennis this season. Barty, who has not competed since her shock US Open...
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr review – all human life is here
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Constantinople, 1453. A young girl darts through streets that bristle with fear of the besieging Ottomans. Slung over her shoulder is a heavy sack of mildewed codices, pilfered from an abandoned priory on behalf of an...
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr review – a joyous epic of love and survival
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There is a kind of book a seasoned writer produces after a big success: large-hearted, wide in scope and joyous. Following his Pulitzer winner All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land is a deep l...
Apple delays plans to scan cloud uploads for child sexual abuse images
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Apple will delay its plans to begin scanning user images for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) before uploading them to the cloud, the company says, after a backlash from privacy groups. The company’s proposal, first...
Cloud spraying and hurricane slaying: could geoengineering fix the climate crisis?
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Tom Green has a plan to tackle climate change. The British biologist and director of the charity Project Vesta wants to turn a trillion tonnes of CO2 into rock, and sink it to the bottom of the sea. Green admits the i...
Make it rain: US states embrace ‘cloud seeding’ to conquer drought
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With three-quarters of the US west gripped by a seemingly ceaseless drought, several states are increasingly embracing a drastic intervention – the modification of the weather to spur more rainfall. The latest report...
That Cloud Never Left review – experimental ruminations on cinema and labour
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An artful hybrid of documentary and fiction, That Cloud Never Left zooms in on quotidian life in Daspara, a small West Bengal village where toys are made from reels of discarded film footage. The iconography is clear:...