Twitter: Elon Musk launches new long-form platform allowing 10,000 characters April 14, 2023 Twitter has launched a new platform to support writers move from micro-blogging to longer-form pieces, with posts of 10,000 characters permitted. The Elon Musk-owned social media giant announced the launch of Twitter Write on Friday, offering “improvements to the writing and reading experience” for users. “Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters [...]
Wall Street rally lifts tech stocks in latest signal US inflation is cooling, now eyes turn to Fed rate decision April 14, 2023 A rally on Wall Street on Thursday lifted stocks to their highest level in almost two months following the latest sign that inflation continues to cool. The S&P 500 rose 1.3 per cent after a report showed inflation at the wholesale level slowed last month by more than expected. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained [...]
Darktrace: Cybersecurity giant warns of slowdown as new customers cut back spending April 13, 2023 Cybersecurity firm Darktrace warned of a looming slowdown in sales today as tricky economic conditions and rising costs “pose challenges to winning new customers”.
Nothing Ear (1) review: Slick but room for improvement April 13, 2023 Nothing Tech sells itself as a cooler, more rebellious and – crucially – cheaper alternative to Apple. Its Nothing (1) smartphone follows 80 per cent of the Cupertino playbook but then mixes it up with a clear back panel that displays the phone’s innards, as well as using a retro dot matrix font in place [...]
‘There’s a real opportunity here’: Fintech chief Janine Hirt on why London remains the place to be April 13, 2023 The INnovate Finance boss speaks with City PM on why the next chapter will be crucial for the UK's fintech sector
Spotify and Apple warned against letting AI access copyrighted songs April 12, 2023 Universal Music Group has warned streaming platforms to clamp down on artificial intelligence tools wielding copyrighted songs for training purposes. In a letter sent to streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple, the music corporation expressed concern that AI tools would collect data from copyrighted songs available on the platform to train themselves to produce [...]
Five things we learned from Elon Musk’s interview with the BBC April 12, 2023 Elon Musk plans to revoke a disputed “government funded media” label Twitter attributed to the BBC, claims advertisers are returning to the platform and admitted that he sometimes sleeps in the office. The billionaire chief executive — who is also at the head of electric car maker, Tesla, and spacecraft manufacturer, SpaceX — made the [...]
Freight takes flight: £1.2m fund backs drones to connect isolated parts of the UK April 12, 2023 Drones will take to the sky in the Orkney Islands, as part of a £1.2m funding package to encourage more innovative and cleaner freight delivery solutions across the country. Skysports Deliveries – which provides infrastructure for the air mobility industry – won £150,000 and will use the drones to “improve island to island connectivity,” and [...]
Elon Musk drops DogeCoin logo, restores Twitter bird, plus the Blue Tick latest April 11, 2023 Twitter has restored its bird logo after Elon Musk, one of the world’s funniest richest men, had temporarily switched it for the meme dog best known as the logo of cryptocurrency DogeCoin. Internet sluths went into overdrive trying to work out the reason. Was it a hack? A disgruntled employee? No, it was of course [...]
UK standalone 5G rollout to be finished by 2030, ministers pledge April 11, 2023 Ministers are set to invest millions in boosting the UK’s connectivity via a nationwide rollout of 5G. All populated areas of the country will be covered by ‘standalone’ 5G – also called ‘5G-plus’, which is not reliant on existing 4G technology – by 2030, the government has pledged. Technology secretary Michelle Donelan today unveiled a [...]
