Mark Zuckerberg is facing the European Parliament on Tuesday, answering yet more questions about how his company will tackle a scandal over the improper use of Facebook members' data.
It's one of several crises engulfing the company in …
The University of Greenwich has been fined £120,000 ($160,000) by the Information Commissioner.
The fine was for a security breach in which the personal data of 19,500 students was placed online.
The data included names, addresses, d…
While most SD-WAN (software defined wide area network) solutions promise to save money and improve network agility, it is possible to help customers build a better WAN to deliver higher levels of application performance, business productiv…
He's been referred to as one of the UK's most eligible bachelors but Hollywood star Hugh Grant is finally tying the knot.
The Four Weddings and a Funeral and Paddington star is set to wed the mother of three of his children, Swedish TV …
Shares in Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) jumped more than 4 percent on Monday as investors were encouraged by the company’s placing a $78,000 price tag on the fully-loaded version of its Model 3 sedan.
Separately, research firm Berenberg raised its…
Ride-hailing firm Grab will partner with Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank), Malaysia’s biggest bank, to drive the usage and adoption of its GrabPay mobile wallet, the companies said in a statement on Monday.
Grab, which received its e-money…
Britain will tackle “the Wild West elements” on the internet from cyberbullying to online child exploitation by introducing new laws for social media companies, digital minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday.
Launching a consultation on w…
The diagnosis of cancer and other diseases in the UK can be transformed by using artificial intelligence, Theresa May is to say.
The NHS and technology companies should use AI as a "new weapon" in research, the PM will urge in a speech …
In a change of plan, the public will be able to watch Mark Zuckerberg's response to European Parliament leaders' privacy concerns.
The body's president, Antonio Tajani, has tweeted that tomorrow's 75-minute meeting would be livestreamed…
Two smart luggage firms have closed in May, with both blaming changes to airline policies regarding how lithium batteries can be taken on board planes.
Raden and Bluesmart said the changes, by several major airlines in December 2017, ha…
In the race to build autonomous vehicles, what is the right balance between encouraging innovation and making sure our cities are safe?
That is one of the big questions we address in this week's edition of Tech Tent.
Stream or dow…
Which? says many UK households get half the broadband speed they pay for.
Customers on a 38Mbps service received average speeds of 19Mbps, according to its findings, taken from 235,000 uses of its broadband speed checker tool.
And th…
Ethereum is the top public blockchain in the cryptocurrency space, while that of bitcoin, the original virtual currency, is ranked 13th, according to the Chinese government’s first monthly Global Public Chain Assessment Index released on T…
Apple this morning announced another expansion of Everyone Can Code, bringing its Swift coding curricula to a number of US schools focused on students who are blind and deaf. The current list includes eight schools in California, New Yor…
Uber [UBER.UL] submitted an appeal on Friday against the decision by the southern coastal English city of Brighton to strip the taxi app of its licence for not being “fit and proper” over data concerns and the use of drivers from outside t…
No, it’s not a “regram” option. Sorry! But today, Instagram is officially launching a new feature that will allow users to re-share someone’s Instagram post with their friends via Instagram Stories – something it confirmed was in testi…
Fortnite is finally coming to Android…in a matter of months. After dominating the iOS gaming charts since March, the wildly popular sandbox survival game will be hitting the world’s top mobile operating system at some point this summer.
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After 14 months of silence since launching, Facebook Stories has finally announced a 150 million daily active user count for its Snapchat Stories clone. And now it’s time to earn some money off it. Facebook Stories will start testing its …
Apple has paid 1.5 billion euros ($1.76 billion) into an escrow account set up by the Irish government to hold 13 billion euros in disputed taxes, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said on Friday.
The European Commission ordered Apple in…
By Antigone Davis, Global Head of Safety and Karuna Nain, Global Policy Programs Manager at Facebook
Today we’re excited to launch our Youth Portal, a central place for teens that includes:
Education: Information on how to get…
Mobileye, Intel Corp’s Israel-based autonomous driving unit, has signed a contract to supply eight million cars at a European automaker with its self-driving technologies, a company official told Reuters.
Financial terms of the deal and…
The UK technology sector grew 2.6 times faster than the UK economy as a whole last year, new figures show. One of the biggest growth areas was in compassionate tech, with new apps and online services helping society's most vulnerable.
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Facebook has confirmed its chief executive will meet leading members of the European Parliament to discuss privacy concerns in Brussels.
The date of the meeting with Mark Zuckerberg has yet to be fixed but the president of the European …
Details have been released of the first ever console controller designed and made specifically for disabled gamers.
Microsoft says the Adaptive Controller will give people easier access to the games they love.
Currently players have …
The introduction of Nokia ‘1’ smartphone on Android (Go edition) by HMD Global, the Nokia phone manufacturers has given Ghanaians an exceptional phone experience.
The high quality, but affordable smartphone guarantees a wholesome but po…
As Hollywood studios unleash their summer blockbusters into theaters, Netflix Inc is trying to give film buffs a reason to stay home.
The streaming service is on track to release at least 86 Netflix original films in 2018, the company t…
Pupils are being told to remove watches from their wrists before taking GCSE and A-level exams, to combat cheating.
In most cases, students are being told to place the timepieces on their desks, but invigilators can demand they are left…
A few weeks ahead of its latest flagship announcement, HTC just revealed another piece of hardware. While the Taiwanese company has consolidated much of its mobile offerings in recent years, it announced today at the Consensus 2018 bloc…
When Apple introduced its completely redesigned App Store last fall, one of its goals was to improve app discovery by placing a larger emphasis on editorial content – including things like “app of the day” picks, lists, how-to’s and eve…
There’s probably an important gap in attention being paid at internet companies to young kids that are good targets for parental controls and older ones who are having to learn to use the internet in a responsible way on their own.
To…
Google is revamping its consumer storage plans today by adding a new $2.99/month tier for 200 GB of storage and dropping the price of its 2 TB plan from $19.99/month to $9.99/month (and dropping the $9.99/month 1 TB plan). It’s also rebra…
Police must address concerns over the use of facial recognition systems or may face legal action, the UK's privacy watchdog says.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said the issue had become a "priority" for her office.
An inv…
Zimbabwe’s central bank has stopped local banks from trading or processing payments linked to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, its governor said on Monday, but stopped short of banning local cryptocurrency trading exchanges.
In the southe…
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has registered a new electric car firm in Shanghai, as China prepares to scrap rules on capping foreign ownership of new-energy vehicle (NEV) ventures.
The new company, Tesla (Shanghai) Co Ltd, was registered on May 1…
Facebook Inc has so far suspended around 200 apps in the first stage of its review into apps that had access to large quantities of user data, in a response to a scandal around political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
The apps were su…
Apple and Samsung are facing each other in a California court for a third trial involving the same set of five patents.
Apple was originally awarded $1.05bn (£772m) in 2012 after a jury found the South Korean firm had infringed several …
A widely used method of encrypting emails has been found to suffer from a serious vulnerability, researchers say.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a data encryption method sometimes added to programs that send and receive email.
Details …
Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker that’s looking to raise as much as $10 billion in a Hong Kong IPO, is continuing to grow its presence in the American market after it announced plans to bring its smart home products to the U.S..
Th…
If you’ve been meaning to ask your friends just how eggplant emoji your new summer cutoffs are, you’re in luck. Today, Instagram is introducing a feature it’s calling the “emoji slider,” a new audience feedback sticker that polls your vi…
The science of your Instagram posts
Why is it some things we post on Instagram have much bigger engagement than others? Can we apply a formula to the way we react to different images?
Using artificial intelligence, Tomorrow's W…
The digital advertising industry is in crisis: ad fraud is rife, many online ads are never even seen and ad blocking software is threatening to undermine the internet's fundamental business model.
So how did it get into this mess and wh…
Landmark U.S. “net neutrality” rules will expire on June 11, and new regulations handing providers broad new power over how consumers can access the internet will take effect, the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday in setti…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai milked the woos from a clappy, home-turf developer crowd at its I/O conference in Mountain View this week with a demo of an in-the-works voice assistant feature that will enable the AI to make telephone calls on be…
China’s biggest ride-sharing company, Didi Chuxing, said on Friday it would halt for a week one of its domestic services, which it calls “ride-hitching”, following the death of a female passenger that sparked questions about safety.
The…
Google says it will take steps to ensure that humans are not fooled when they get called by software bots that can convincingly mimic the human voice.
Anyone called by the bot will be told they are conversing with a machine, Google told…
File sharing and storage company Dropbox Inc (DBX.O) beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly results and topped estimates for paying subscribers in its first financial report as a publicly traded company.
However, the company’s shar…
Music streaming app Tidal has been accused of inflating audience figures for two albums - Lemonade by Beyonce, and The Life of Pablo by Kanye West.
A Norwegian-language newspaper claims the move would have led Tidal to have paid disprop…
Network gear maker Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) is pulling all online ads from YouTube due to fears of the ads appearing on sensitive content on the platform, Cisco’s chief marketing officer, Karen Walker, said in a blog on Wednesday.
The…
Most Western technology companies are losing ground in Russia under the weight of restrictive rules and mounting local competition. Germany’s SAP (SAPG.DE) is thriving.
SAP is the clear leader in the Russian business-planning software m…
Uber Technologies Inc on Wednesday re-opened a contest to select the first international city to launch its proposed flying taxi project, following apparent delays in getting the service off the ground in Dubai, a previously proposed marke…
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