Month: April 2021

Transport secretary Grant Shapps appeared to confirm in a recent interview that England’s NHS app would be used as a vaccine passport. Travel restrictions are due to ease on 17 May, after…

Apple has announced its new iOS 14.5 update for the iPhone and iPad. The most newsy feature is its new App Tracking Transparency function – which means users will have to “opt…

“The rate at which we’re growing the industry is absolutely scary,” says Paul Anderson from Birmingham University. He’s talking about the market for electric cars in Europe. By 2030, the EU hopes…

An audio start-up without revenue gets valued at $4bn (£2.8bn), Facebook is launching what it calls social audio experiences, while Twitter has a new feature called Spaces allowing users to start an…

The West is faced with a “moment of reckoning” when it comes to technology and security, the head of intelligence agency GCHQ has told the BBC. Jeremy Fleming said there was a…

Senators have grilled Apple and Google in Washington over “anti-competitive” behaviour related to their app stores. Representatives from Tile, Spotify and Match also gave evidence, accusing the two tech firms of charging…

Some “unacceptable” uses of artificial intelligence would be banned in Europe under proposals unveiled on Wednesday. The European Commission’s rules would ban “AI systems considered a clear threat to the safety, livelihoods…

An internal Facebook email, accidentally sent to Belgium-based Data News, has revealed its strategy for dealing with the leaking of account details from 533 million users. It suggests the social network expected…

The Bank of England and the Treasury have announced they are setting up a taskforce to explore the possibility of a central bank digital currency. The aim is to look at the…

Carla Johnson turned 45 on Tuesday, a milestone she thought she might not reach. On 12 July, she walked up to a manager at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, and said…