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Cybercrime is skyrocketing in Switzerland

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This content was published on Jun 1, 2017 Last year, 14,033 cybercrime cases were reported to police in Switzerland, compared to 11,575 in 2015 and 5,330 in 2011. A survey from the firm KPMGExternal link released this week found that 88% of Swiss companies have experienced cyber-attacks in the past year compared to 54% in 2016. This might be just the tip of…

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The world’s first Swiss CO2 washing machine

This content was published on Jun 1, 2017 Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, who met at ETH Zurich in 2003, started research into ‘direct air capture’ in 2007. Their quest with Climeworks: to reduce negative emissions and supply to greenhouses through replacing the fossil industrial CO2, which is currently being used. Unfortunately for Gebald and Wurzbacher, they hit set-backs at the 2009 Climate…

What does CERN’s new particle accelerator do?

This content was published on May 30, 2017 Scientists at CERN are going to be smashing together more particles than ever before from now on. How are they going to do it?

Bern researchers nail down exoplanet orbit

This content was published on May 27, 2017 Scientists have determined the length of time it takes the last of seven recently discovered exoplanets to orbit around its central dwarf star.

Fantasy Basel – The Swiss Comic Con

This content was published on May 27, 2017 For three days, the Swiss city of Basel became a mecca for 43,000 comic and science fiction fans.

Under cyber attack: what should you do?

This content was published on May 25, 2017 Do you know how to protect yourself from computer viruses?

Particle physicist shuns hyperactive investments

This content was published on May 22, 2017 An interview with Elena Manola-Bonthond, chief investment officer of Cern’s $4 billion (CHF4 billion) pension scheme.

Protecting our thoughts with human rights

This content was published on May 20, 2017 Our minds may not be the last bastions of privacy we thought they were. Swiss researchers have proposed the new human rights to protect them.

Bird’s-eye view – as precise as never before

This content was published on May 19, 2017 New aerial images record details of Switzerland with an accuracy of 10cm.

Switzerland has a second stab at Digital ID

This content was published on May 17, 2017 The creation of a second digital ID project in Switzerland, called SwissID, has raised both hopes and questions for the future.

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