The Porn Laws are misguided, repressive, and totally ineffective at protecting children April 24, 2019 Last week, the government announced a new law – one which would expose children to more harmful online material, compromise privacy, and hit the most vulnerable adults in society. As of 15 July, to access online pornography you will have to either purchase a porn pass online or venture to off-licence to acquire an age-verification [...]
Want to tackle the scourge of fake reviews? The market can help with that April 24, 2019 The internet has led to a massive increase in the amount of information available. Often, this is a good thing. For example, shopping around to find the cheapest price for something has become far easier. But it can have its downsides. A report last week from the consumer magazine Which highlighted one such disadvantage. An [...]
Snap smashes expectations with narrowed losses and surprise user growth April 24, 2019 Original shows, a design overhaul for Android phones and an entry into video games powered Snap to top analyst expectations last night, surprising Wall Street naysayers. Snap – the parent firm of photo-messaging app Snapchat – said its losses had narrowed to $0.10 per share or $123m (£95m) in the first three months of 2019, [...]
The UK’s young ‘tech for good’ startups provide £2.3bn boost to British economy April 24, 2019 The UK is a burgeoning hotspot for socially responsible technology companies, forming a sector valued at billions of pounds to the UK economy. So-called tech for good businesses were worth £2.3bn in 2018, with a turnover of £732m, according to data published today by Tech Nation. It tops the amount produced by the consumer manufacturing [...]
Twitter profits triple as it reaps rewards of crackdown on harmful content April 23, 2019 Shares in Twitter rose more than 16 per cent today after the social media platform posted a threefold increase in first-quarter profits. Read more: Twitter boss Jack Dorsey was paid just $1.40 in 2018 The figures Revenue grew 18 per cent year-on-year to $787m (£605m) in the three months to the end of March. Net [...]
Why Vodafone is still backed to hit 250p April 23, 2019 | City Talk By Graeme Evans from interactive investor. Some sense a shift in the balance towards more favourable news at the start of the new financial year. Despite a fruitful start to 2019 for most FTSE 100 index stocks, the mood of many investors will have been tempered by further uncertainty over the prized dividend at Vodafone [...]
Elon Musk predicts Tesla will launch a robotaxi service in 2020 April 23, 2019 Elon Musk has promised Tesla will be able to produce so-called robotaxis with no human drivers in parts of the US as soon as next year. Read more: Tesla investigating incident of car catching fire in Shanghai In a webcast ahead of the firm’s quarterly results this week, the outspoken chief executive said its driverless [...]
Leaving the legacy behind: Meet the tech company that could put a stop to the banks’ IT failures April 23, 2019 IT meltdowns are becoming dangerously common among the big banks. According to Which, at least one British bank suffered an IT failure every day during the last nine months of 2018. TSB’s outage last year, which left 1.9m customers locked out of their accounts and cost the bank £330m, demonstrates how catastrophic these IT issues can [...]
We are at the big data frontier – we’re going to need some rules April 23, 2019 We create data all the time, even if we don’t realise it. Whether from social media use, video-watching habits, satellite images, traffic flows, or location data from smart devices, companies are increasingly able to use this information to extrapolate trends and capitalise on behaviour patterns. This has driven change across many industries, but it’s of [...]
Humans aren’t just a mess of words and numbers – so why are our passwords? April 23, 2019 Protecting your identity used to be straightforward. You had your computer on your desk in front of you. Content was restricted to you alone, and all you needed was a key card and a one-time password. Then 30 years ago, the World Wide Web was born, and everything became a lot more complex. Since then, the [...]
