Facebook have held the F8 conference for 2016, and one of the major announcements is the move to make the Messenger app the one-stop shop for your daily needs, using AI bots to answer queries and set up orders. Potentially Read more…
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A report from Symantec, a security firm, has indicated there were 429 million identities exposed in 2015, although this number could be over half a billion as it was claimed that increasing numbers of companies are failing to report all Read more…
Daily Mail could be looking to buy Yahoo, the US internet company, as it was revealed talks are taking place between the newspaper’s owner and other parties. The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) – which is Daily Mail’s parent Read more…
2016’s British Academy Awards have been announced, and Bethesda’s Fallout 4 won the Best Game award. It was unsurprising that Fallout 4 was so well received by fans and critics, as Bethesda persistently deliver top quality RPGs, with a strong Read more…
Chinese technology firm Huawei has revealed its latest Android smartphone, the P9, which uses a dual-lens camera that allows you to refocus images after you take them, as the firm looks to continue its staggering growth. The 5.2 inch phone Read more…
Tuesday saw what has been called a “huge victory for privacy and free speech,” as WhatsApp fully rolled out end-to-end encryption for users of their service. End-to-end encryption is a method of locking messages that are sent, in such a Read more…
A system is being launched today by social media giant Facebook, which will allow blind people to ‘see’ photos thanks to the system reading out images to them. Through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), images which are uploaded to Read more…
A Taliban-produced propaganda app on the Google Play Store, “Pashto Afghan News – alemarah”, has been removed from the store just a couple of days after its launch. The app, which was only for Android phones and tablets, was removed Read more…
Every year, the Gadget Show Live draws huge crowds of people, be they journalists, exhibitors or, in the majority, people who just love the cutting edge of technology. This year was no different, and we headed over to the Gadget Read more…
A study by the NASUWT, the teacher’s union, found that more than half of its 1,300 members were aware of incidents of pupils using social media to send and receive nude pictures and sexually explicit messages. One incident involved a Read more…