Google's Pixel event was awkward and forced, underselling the technology it had on display.

The UK's internet watchdog has launched an investigation into how four companies - that collectively run 34 pornography sites - are complying with new age-check requirements.

Sir Keir Starmer has said he will "look" at the unpopular winter fuel policy to make more pensioners eligible for the payments.

The common wisdom is we are living in an age of polarity. But isn’t the truth that most of us are somewhere in the neglected middle?

Rock’n’roll legend makes series of blistering speeches on stage in Manchester, targeting ‘corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration’ Bruce Springsteen has made a series of rousing, splenetic speeches castigating Donald Trump and his administration, calling the president “unfit” for office. In what amounts to one of the most sustained attacks on Trump and American lawmakers from a cultural figure, he made the speeches on stage in Manchester, as he opened his Land of Hope and Dreams tour with the E Street Band. There’s some very weird, strange and dangerous shit going on out there right now. In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now. In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now. Continue reading...

In an age of disinformation, our broadcaster is trusted to find and tell the truth. Now more than ever we need it, says former reporter, MP and Unicef ambassador, Martin Bell

British semiconductor company Alphawave IP Group on Monday said the UK takeover panel had extended the deadline for a takeover offer by U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm to May 27.

Samsung says it “plans to solidify its global No. 1 position in the consumer audio market” after its Harman subsidiary acquired the consumer audio division of Masimo. Harman/Samsung now owns audio brands Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Polk Audio, Marantz and others - in exchange for roughly $350 million in cash. Those brands will now sit in Harman’s portfolio alongside existing brands Harman Kardon, JBL and others.

Vulcan device ‘capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses’ fuels fears of mass job losses Amazon said it has made a “fundamental leap forward in robotics” after developing a robot with a sense of touch that will be capable of grabbing about three-quarters of the items in its vast warehouses. Vulcan – which launches at the US firm’s “Delivering the Future” event in Dortmund, Germany, on Wednesday and is to be deployed around the world in the next few years – is designed to help humans sort items for storage and then prepare them for delivery as the latest in a suite of robots which have an ever-growing role in the online retailer’s extensive operation. Continue reading...

TeleMessage, an encrypted messaging app based upon Signal, has been temporarily suspended out of "an abundance of caution" after a hacker reportedly gained access to US government communications.

The air traffic system meltdown at Newark Liberty International Airport last week “was the most dangerous situation you could have,” according to an air traffic controller on duty that day, as the fal...