Image copyright Getty Images Image caption EE’s 5G launch is initially limited to six cities, including Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast and London After years of hype – and sometimes confusion – the UK finally has a 5G network. BT’s EE subsidiary is the first to launch a service – and if you’re feeling wealthy enough and […]
Image copyright Reuters A vote calling for Mark Zuckerberg to stand down as Facebook’s chairman is expected to take place at the company’s annual general meeting on Thursday. Mr Zuckerberg is both Facebook’s chief executive and the chairman of its board of directors. Those calling for him to step down as chairman say this would […]
Image copyright Roblox Image caption Roblox is a multiplayer platform where players can create their own games and join in with others Online multiplayer game Roblox, which has 90 million users worldwide, is marketed at children – but there are fears it also being used to groom them. One mother explains how this happened to […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Could an app tell you where the best parking space is? Data on parking spaces across the UK is set to be standardised, in the hope that it will make finding and paying for parking easier. From Thursday, local councils are now able to release parking data in the […]
Image copyright Getty Images The amount of time we spend online is growing, but so are calls for tougher regulation, a study of 1,001 children and 2,057 over-16s suggests. The average British adult spent three-and-a-quarter hours a day online last year, said the study by Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office. But while most people […]
Image caption Carl’s vacuum’s view of his house The circular, grey robot vacuum gently bumps against against my feet. It stops, rotates and follows a skirting board along the kitchen, emitting a loud and unbroken drone. Throwing out beams of invisible light, it plots obstacles and walls, the narrowness of corridors and the expanses of […]
Image copyright Guo O Dong Image caption The laptop is still being live-streamed on gaming platform Twitch A laptop packed with six types of dangerous malware has been sold for $1.3m (£1.03m) in an online auction. The artwork titled The Persistence of Chaos was a joint project between artist Guo O Dong and cyber-security company […]
Image copyright Getty Images The US Navy is seeking to create an archive of at least 350 billion social media posts from around the world, in order to study how people talk online. The military project team has not specified which social media platform it intends to collect the data from. The posts must be […]
Image copyright Amazon Image caption A proposal to ban government use of the Rekognition system failed to attract mass support at Amazon’s annual general meeting An attempted shareholder revolt over Amazon’s sale of facial recognition technology to the police mustered less than 3% of votes cast at the firm’s annual general meeting. The tally was […]
Image copyright Amazon Image caption A proposal to ban government use of the Rekognition system failed to attract mass support at Amazon’s annual general meeting An attempted shareholder revolt over Amazon’s sale of facial recognition technology to the police mustered less than 3% of votes cast at the firm’s annual general meeting. The tally was […]
