by Newsbot | Jul 17, 2019 | Tech news
An advert for one of Dyson’s £400 fans has been labelled misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).The video, for the company’s Pure Hot and Cool Fan, suggests the fan is cordless when it actually needs to be plugged in, it said.Dyson...
by Newsbot | Jul 17, 2019 | Tech news
Apple has announced some new emojis – including a wheelchair user, people with walking sticks and a hearing aid.They’ve been released on World Emoji Day as part of a move by the tech company to represent disabled people better.New designs were proposed...
by Newsbot | Jul 16, 2019 | Tech news
Facebook says it is willing to postpone its digital currency until it has satisfied the concerns of the US treasury and other regulators around the world. David Marcus, head of Facebook’s Libra unit, was grilled by US senators on Tuesday who expressed concern...
by Newsbot | Jul 16, 2019 | Tech news
Facebook’s plan for a cryptocurrency has come under further attack at a US hearing, with politicians calling the company “delusional” and not trusted.The Senate Banking Committee is quizzing Facebook executive David Marcus over the tech giant’s...
by Newsbot | Jul 16, 2019 | Tech news
Fifa 20 will not feature Juventus, after Konami, the games company that makes Pro Evolution Soccer 2020, signed an exclusive deal with the club.Players of Fifa 20 will instead have to search for “Piemonte Calcio” if they want to play as Juventus stars such...
by Newsbot | Jul 16, 2019 | Tech news
A researcher found that it was possible to subvert the platform’s password recovery mechanism and take control of user accounts An independent researcher has found a security loophole in Instagram’s mobile password recovery flow that could have...
by Newsbot | Jul 16, 2019 | Tech news
It started as a bit of a joke, but now the US Air Force has told people not to go near Area 51.More than a million people have RSVP’d to an event on Facebook, threatening to storm the top-secret base in Nevada, which some believe is home to aliens.Thousands have...
by Newsbot | Jul 16, 2019 | Tech news
Neo-Nazi website publisher Andrew Anglin should pay $14m (£11.2m) in damages to a Jewish woman subjected to a “troll storm” at his urging, a US federal magistrate recommends.Tanya Gersh said that Mr Anglin had published 30 articles on the Daily...
by Newsbot | Jul 16, 2019 | Tech news
President Trump has said his administration will look into alleged links between Google and China.It follows a speech given by Peter Thiel in which the billionaire tech investor asked whether Google’s senior management considered itself to have been infiltrated...
by Newsbot | Jul 16, 2019 | Tech news
An artificial intelligence system created by researchers at the University of California has solved the Rubik’s Cube in a fraction of a second.DeepCubeA, as the algorithm was called, completed the 3D logic puzzle which has been taxing humans since it was...
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