Under a cloudless sky, about 20,000 eclipse chasers watched a rare solar eclipse plunge part of Australia’s northwest coast into brief midday darkness on Thursday with an accompanying temperature drop. The remote tourist town of Exmouth, with fewer than 3,000 residents, was promoted as one of the best vantage points in Australia to see the […]
Twitter users have been voicing their discontent after losing ‘legacy’ blue ticks from their accounts, but what does this actually mean? Here, the PA news agency explains the changes on the social media platform. What has just happened? On Thursday (April 20), Twitter began removing legacy Verified checkmarks from hundreds of thousands of accounts. The checkmark […]
Evidence of fake review groups operating on Facebook has been found by Which? The consumer group said its snapshot investigation found more than a dozen groups trading glowing reviews in exchange for free products or payment. Groups had been trading in reviews for Amazon, Google and Trustpilot, Which? said. Which? investigated in March and April […]
Legacy blue ticks have been removed from Twitter as the social media site continues its push to drive more people towards signing up for Twitter Blue. Twitter Verified tweeted that legacy verified checkmarks would be removed from the site on April 20, with the main way of getting a blue tick being to sign up […]
Japanese gaming giant Sega Sammy has agreed to buy Angry Birds maker Rovio Entertainment. The groups confirmed in a joint statement on Monday that Sega, the firm behind franchises such as Sonic the Hedgehog, will buy its Finnish rival for 706 million euros (£625 million). It comes after Rovio confirmed the companies were in discussions […]
Nearly a third of businesses and a quarter of charities have said they were the subject of cyber attacks or breaches last year, new data has shown. Figures collected for the Government by polling company Ipsos show a similar proportion of larger and medium-sized companies and high-income charities faced attacks or breaches last year as […]
More needs to be done to protect the UK from the threat posed by Russia-aligned cyber groups, the head of the UK National Cyber Security Centre has warned. It comes as UK Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden warned that the “cyber equivalent of the Wagner group” posed a serious threat to the UK, as he […]
Heardle, the name-that-tune game inspired by the Wordle craze, is being dropped by Spotify less than a year after the music streaming giant acquired it. “After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to say goodbye to Heardle,” Spotify said in a statement. A similar announcement was posted on the Heardle home page. First […]
Apple has opened its first flagship store in India in a move that highlights the company’s aspirations to expand in a country which it hopes to turn into a manufacturing hub. Chief executive Tim Cook posed for photos with a few of the 100 or so Apple fans who had lined up outside the sprawling […]
Encrypted messaging services including WhatsApp, Signal and Element have signed an open letter opposing the UK Online Safety Bill ahead of its final reading in the House of Lords. The platforms argue the Bill could undermine end-to-end encryption – the privacy technology these companies provide – which is the most robust level of security as […]
