Samsung’s folding phone breaks for reviewers

Image copyright Samsung Image caption Samsung’s folding phone was shown off for the first time earlier this year Earlier this week, Samsung sent out its remarkable new folding smartphone to a number of media outlets, including the BBC. Perhaps now it wishes it hadn’t. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman: Skip Twitter post by @markgurman End of Twitter […]

Samsung’s folding phone breaks for reviewers

Image copyright Samsung Image caption Samsung’s folding phone was shown off for the first time earlier this year Earlier this week, Samsung sent out its remarkable new folding smartphone to a number of media outlets, including the BBC. Perhaps now it wishes it hadn’t. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman: Skip Twitter post by @markgurman End of Twitter […]

TED 2019: The online campaign that ended a beard ban

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Workers wanted the right to have “a neatly trimmed beard” Three years ago workers at US grocery chain Publix began an online campaign to reverse a ban on facial hair. Seventeen-year-old Brandon Wesley started his Let Us Have Beards campaign on coworker.org, a platform aimed at giving workers who […]

Vodafone ‘gigafast’ ad banned after Virgin Media complaint

Image copyright ASA Vodafone has been forbidden from re-running an advert for its home broadband service after it was challenged by rival Virgin Media. The complaint centred on Vodafone’s branding of a premium offering targeted at gamers and other heavy internet users as being Gigafast Broadband. Virgin Media said that term implied that its competitor […]

Vodafone ‘gigafast’ ad banned after Virgin Media complaint

Image copyright ASA Vodafone has been forbidden from re-running an advert for its home broadband service after it was challenged by rival Virgin Media. The complaint centred on Vodafone’s branding of a premium offering targeted at gamers and other heavy internet users as being Gigafast Broadband. Virgin Media said that term implied that its competitor […]

Vodafone ‘gigafast’ ad banned after Virgin Media complaint

Image copyright ASA Vodafone has been forbidden from re-running an advert for its home broadband service after it was challenged by rival Virgin Media. The complaint centred on Vodafone’s branding of a premium offering targeted at gamers and other heavy internet users as being Gigafast Broadband. Virgin Media said that term implied that its competitor […]

Vodafone ‘gigafast’ ad banned after Virgin Media complaint

Image copyright ASA Vodafone has been forbidden from re-running an advert for its home broadband service after it was challenged by rival Virgin Media. The complaint centred on Vodafone’s branding of a premium offering targeted at gamers and other heavy internet users as being Gigafast Broadband. Virgin Media said that term implied that its competitor […]

TED 2019: The $50 lab burger transforming food

Image copyright Impossible Foods Image caption Impossible Foods has just launched its plant-based meat burger in Burger King Bruce Friedrich has been a vegetarian for 30 years but he has recently been enjoying the taste of meat again. The burgers he has been tucking into have been described by Bill Gates as “the future of […]

TED 2019: Twitter boss offers to demote likes and follows

Image copyright TED Image caption Jack Dorsey answered questions at TED on problems with his platform Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has again admitted there is much work to do to improve Twitter and cut down on the amount of abuse and misinformation on the platform. He said the firm might demote likes and follows, adding […]

Apple and Qualcomm settle billion-dollar lawsuit

Image copyright Getty Images Tech giants Apple and Qualcomm have agreed to settle all ongoing lawsuits, putting an end to a long-running battle with billions of dollars at stake. “All litigation between the two companies worldwide” has been dropped, the firms said in a joint statement. The surprise settlement brings an end to a long-running […]