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IN FOCUS: Your daughter is in trouble. Your urgent parcel has been held up. You’ve been offered a desperately needed loan. In recent years, a wave of scammers have developed cruel, emotionally sophisticated methods to exploit human instincts and vulnerabilities. Tom Ough uncovers how scammers got smart – and how, scarily, new voice technology means they’ll only get smarter
Your daughter is in trouble. Your urgent parcel has been held up. You’ve been offered a desperately needed loan. In recent years, a wave of scammers have developed cruel, emotionally sophisticated methods to exploit human instincts and vulnerabilities. Tom Ough uncovers how scammers got smart – and how, scarily, new voice technology means they’ll only get smarter
Rosalind Franklin - Credit: By MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - From the personal collection of Jenifer Glynn A sculpted portrait of pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin is to be unveiled in Hampstead. The biophysicist's X-ray Photo 51 helped Watson and Crick discover the double helix structure of DNA – but she didn't share their 1962 Nobel Prize because she died of ovarian cancer four years earlier. To mark International Women's Month, the property firm redeveloping the former Westfield College site in Kidderpore Avenue into luxury apartments, will install a tondo sculptu...
Willesden Jewish Cemetery. - Credit: Michael Eleftheriades An immersive audio art experience has been introduced at Willesden Jewish Cemetery. Until the end of January, visitors can engage with the free sound installation Invisible City by artist group FOR NOW. The work was commissioned by the cemetery as part of the first Brent Biennial, part of Brent 2020 London Borough of Culture. Using a smartphone or, from January 3, a sanitised headset and MP3 player provided, visitors can walk the cemetery paths or find a bench in the heart of the site and lose themselves in a world of reminiscen...