China blocks Signal – here’s what you need to know
The popular encrypted messaging app Signal is the latest online service to be blocked in China with users across the country reporting that they are no longer able to access...
Google Cloud shares carbon-free datacentre energy usage stats with users
Google Cloud has committed to sharing data with its customers that shows how much of the energy used to power its datacentre regions comes from renewable sources, so enterprises can...
This Virgin broadband deal offers superfast speeds, low costs and big vouchers
With everyone spending more time at home, more time binging Netflix and likely more time working from their kitchen, upgrading to superfast internet could be a change worth making.If you've...
Wikipedia is getting a ‘premium’ paid version – but you can’t get it
The parent company of Wikipedia has revealed it is launching a new paid service for companies that take information from the online encyclopedia.The new Wikimedia Enterprise platform will only apply...
I was a teenage Twitter hacker. Graham Ivan Clark gets 3-year sentence
A Florida teenager accused of orchestrating one of last year’s Twitter hacks—this one used celebrity accounts to make more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scam—pleaded guilty on Tuesday in exchange...
Nordic healthcare digitisation drives medtech growth
The use of digitisation and robotics to modernise Nordic healthcare is increasing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) technologies. High demand for patient-focused healthcare technologies has...
Big tech companies may soon have to pay for Wikipedia content
Wikipedia is set to launch a paid option to get major technology companies like Google, Google, Amazon and Facebook pay up for using its content.But don't worry, you as a...
Google cuts Play Store commission fee – But Indian app developers unimpressed
Google has announced that it is halving the commission Android developers have to pay on in-app purchases of digital goods on its Play Store to 15% (from the existing 30%)...
US ecommerce could be a trillion-dollar market by 2022
Next year could be the first trillion-dollar year for ecommerce in the US as the pandemic has changed how consumers shop according to a new report from Adobe.To compile its...
Mimecast says SolarWinds hackers breached its network and spied on customers
Enlarge / Breaking in the computer. Email-management provider Mimecast has confirmed that a network intrusion used to spy on its customers was conducted by the same advanced hackers responsible for...