AI is coming to newsrooms, should we embrace it or resist it? Many large newsrooms and news agencies have, for some time, relegated sports, weather, stock exchange movements and corporate performance stories to computers. Machines can be more rigorous and comprehensive than some reporters. Software can import data from various ... Read More »
Facebook loses a million European users in three months
Total global user numbers continue to slowly rise, with more than 2.2bn people using the platform every month Facebook has lost a million daily and monthly active users in the last three months, the company’s latest financial results have revealed. The social network was the subject of a cyber attack ... Read More »
UK fines Facebook £500,000 for failing to protect user data
Decision by information commissioner comes after Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after allowing third party developers to access user information without sufficient consent. The ICO announcement on Thursday upholds its initial decision in July. ... Read More »
Pixel 3: Price, release date, and absolutely everything else you need to know about the new Google Android phone
Google has revealed its Pixel 3: the flagship phone you never have to use as a phone, and which might actually be the best camera you’ve ever held. The new handset is intended as Google’s expression of the way Android should be and an attempt to wrestle some of the ... Read More »
Have smartphones killed the art of conversation?
So we’ve gone off voice calls yet spend hours glued to our phones. But it’s simply that the rules of conversation have been redrawn in the age of WhatsApp, Snapchat and emojis News of the un-newsy kind this week, fresh from an Ofcom study designed to confirm a belief in ... Read More »
Google directs Android smartphone manufacturers to allow only two display cutouts
In one of the latest posts on the Android Developer Blog, Google has laid down ground rules for Android phone manufactures that allows them to have one or even two display cutouts in devices, but not more than that. Google has explained how developers should make changes to their app’s ... Read More »
Apple becomes first public company to be worth $1 trillion
Tech giant surged on Thursday afternoon after its own app mistakenly put its valuation above the $1 trillion mark earlier in the day Apple’s market valuation surged past the $1 trillion point on Thursday, the first time in history a company has reached that level. Shares surged 2.5 per cent ... Read More »
Can Apple pip others to be first with trillion dollar valuation?
It’s only a matter of time before the milestone is reached, but investors are advised against complacency over the tech firms Will it or won’t it? The question dominating Wall Street all week has been whether Apple will become the first company with a stock market valuation of a trillion ... Read More »
Google ‘working on censored search engine’ for China
Chinese human rights groups criticise internet company for reportedly designing software that would leave out blacklisted content Google is working on a mobile search app that would block certain search terms and allow it to reenter China after exiting eight years ago due to censorship and hacking, according to US ... Read More »
Over $119bn wiped off Facebook’s market cap after growth shock
Shares crash as social network admits user growth fell after Cambridge Analytica breach More than $119bn (£90.8bn) has been wiped off Facebook’s market value, which includes a $17bn hit to the fortune of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, after the company told investors that user growth had slowed in the wake ... Read More »