Technology
The trolls are winning: Returning CEO takes on Reddit’s ‘dark side’
Reddit’s returning CEO Steve Huffman took to the site Thursday to propose a new set of content guidelines meant to curb harassment and, in turn,...
How Reddit’s new CEO wants to end the forum’s ‘dark side’
Reddit’s returning CEO Steve Huffman took to the site Thursday to propose a new set of content guidelines that is meant to curb harassment, and in...
‘Get rid of junk day’: Amazon under fire for Prime Day 'car boot sale’
It was hyped as a sale that would put Black Friday bargains in the shade. But Amazon’s 'Prime Day’ sale - exclusively for subscribers...
Air-heads! Rejected $150,000 start-up stake now worth $2bn
As bad business decisions go, it may sit alongside music executive Dick Rowe turning down then-unknown band The Beatles in 1962.
Gaming community mourns loss of Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata
Nintendo’s chief executive has died of cancer at the age of 55, in an upheaval for the Japanese videogame giant just months after abandoning a consoles-only...
Analysis: ‘Reddit Revolt’ that led to Ellen Pao’s resignation is bad news for the Internet
Interim Reddit CEO Ellen Pao stepped down yesterday, following a week that saw the online community’s users call for her head on a pike after the...
Reddit chief Ellen Pao quits after receiving ‘sickening’ abuse from users
Ellen Pao has bowed to pressure to quit as Reddit chief executive after a revolt from the website’s users over her handling of a popular employee’s...
Frenchmen dispute first-ever electric plane Channel crossing
French pilot Didier Esteyne says he has made aviation history after flying an all-electric plane across the English Channel this morning.
Pilot left buzzing by first electric-powered flight across Channel
A French pilot has completed the first flight in an electric-powered plane across the English Channel - just hours before an attempt was about to be launched...
Honey, we shrunk the chip: IBM unveils ‘breakthrough’ computer processor
IBM says it has achieved a breakthrough in shrinking computer chips, creating a test version of the world’s first semiconductor that shrinks down...
IBM unveils ‘breakthrough’ computer chip
IBM says it has achieved a breakthrough in shrinking computer chips, creating a test version of the world’s first semiconductor that shrinks down...
Teen guilty of hacking Playstation network
A teenager who helped to ruin Christmas for millions of children by shutting down the PlayStation and Xbox networks has been convicted of 50,700 offences.
The hacker who ruined Christmas: Teen guilty of shutting down PlayStation
A teenager who helped to ruin Christmas for millions of children by shutting down the PlayStation and Xbox networks has been convicted of 50,700 offences.
Nintendo’s PlayStation, the Holy Grail of Game Memorabilia, Has Been Found
An extraordinarily rare prototype of the Nintendo PlayStation console, which was created as part of a failed partnership between Nintendo and Sony some...
US spy agency targeted top Brazilian officials: WikiLeaks
Aside from listening in on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s phone calls, US spies also targeted top political and financial officials, according...
Reddit struggles as moderators close discussion boards in protest
One of the world’s most popular websites has been thrown into chaos by a rebellion sparked by the sacking of a popular staff member. The unpaid...
Reddit and weep: Rebellion sees website in chaos after worker sacked
One of the world’s most popular websites has been thrown into chaos by a rebellion sparked by the sacking of a popular staff member. The unpaid...
Where’s the fun in that? New ‘space-saving’ bubble wrap has no pop
A new version of Bubble Wrap won’t have the one distinctive feature most of us love it for — the “pop.” Sealed Air, its manufacturer,...
Want to pay online? Forget using a password, just send us a selfie
MasterCard is testing new technology which could allow customers to pay online by taking a selfie rather than entering a password.
Google apologises after photo app labels black couple ‘Gorillas’
Google has said it is “genuinely sorry” after its image recognition software labelled photographs of a black couple as “gorillas”.
Zuckerberg: Facebook will be able to read your mind in the future
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg believes users will one day be able to send ‘telepathic’ messages to one another.
NASA reveals plans for first airplane on Mars
The first airplane on Mars will be pretty far from this fantasy. Chances are, it will look a lot more like a kind of glider that’s already in use...
Court rules NSA can resume bulk collection of phone call records
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled that the National Security Agency may temporarily resume its bulk collection of Americans’...
Roaming free: No more extra mobile phone costs in the EU from 2017
Mobile roaming charges are set to be scrapped within the European Union from June 2017.
Google’s self-driving cars hit the road
A few of Google’s cartoon-like self-driving cars are now sharing the road with regular vehicles around the company’s Mountain View, California...
Facebook ups the ante with HBO premieres
Facebook and HBO are teaming up, as the social media site makes a big push into video. Facebook will stream the premiere episodes of the new HBO shows...
Mon Dieu! Claims that America spied on three French Presidents
The United States National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press...
WikiLeaks: NSA eavesdropped on the last 3 French presidents
The United States National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press...
Tech industry rolls out new features to lure hesitant pay-by-phone users
The tech industry has been saying for years that smartphones would make traditional wallets obsolete.
Moon jellyfish’s symmetrical impulse could inspire self-healing robots
A jellyfish which rearranges its limbs if one of them is lost could provide the blueprint for self-healing robots.
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