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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s identity startup ‘World’ has begun its rollout in the United States, introducing 20,000 biometric devices known as Orbs that scan users’ irises to confirm they are human. From Worldcoin to World World began life in 2019 as Worldcoin, a startup co-founded by Sam Altman and Ale...
In the interest of starting the kids early with life skills, The Halifax is enlisting the help of young YouTube stars / ‘vloggers’, to help teach other children...
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined MoneySuperMarket £80,000 for sending 7 million emails to former subscribers who had already opted out of receivi...
In Windows 10, the Microsoft Edge Browser has a habit of trying to open everything as the default app. You can stop this from happening. To stop this, and to be...
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is reportedly seeking to introduce a law that will force technology companies to give law enforcement agencies access...
The possible scrapping of a 2015 net neutrality order in the US has led to a group of major technology firms, including Alphabet Inc and Facebook, challenging t...
In a recent meeting with the National Governors Association, the US bi-partisan body dealing with state and national public policy and governance, Tesla and Spa...
Ukraine’s power distributor, one of the world’s largest snack companies, and even Chernobyl’s radiation monitoring systems were among the hundreds of businesses...
If you’d like a fast way to minimise all your open windows to clear the desktop on Windows 10, you can use the ‘secret’ desktop button. Here’s how: Look all the...
One of the biggest challenges to the IT sector over many years has been a skills gap but new research from IT contractor services provider SJD Accountancy into...
National Grid figures show that renewable sources of energy such as wind farms, solar panels, hydro and the burning of renewable biomass / wood pellets have, fo...
Virgin Media have developed and distributed a security patch for their Super Hub home routers after a potentially serious security flaw was uncovered by cyber s...
The first arrest made using facial recognition technology took place in Cardiff two weeks ago, just days after trialling of the technology at the Champions Leag...
Teresa May’s speech outside 10 Downing Street following the Conservative loss of parliamentary majority included an assurance that she would be pressing forward...
A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to death in Pakistan after being convicted of the crime of blasphemy over his Facebook and WhatsApp posts. Unpardonable Und...
According to a recent blog post by Google’s Senior Product Manager of Counter Abuse Technology Andy Wen, AI machine learning technology was recently used succes...
Apple is reported to be launching its “HomePod” Siri-controlled smart speaker in December this year, and although it’s in the same market as Amazon’s Echo and S...
After a barrage of bad publicity over surge pricing, ride-hailing company Uber has announced that it has refunded those affected by inflated prices while trying...
The recent terror attacks in Manchester and London have led to renewed calls by the UK government for more to be done to beat terror online including ending end...
If you’re worried about the security implications of Wi-Fi Sense on Windows 10, and if you’d like to wipe off any details of any Wi-Fi networks you’ve sig...
Google’s new “Finding Choices” initiative will directly ask web users who encounter sites where content is funded by adverts to turn off their ad blocker or pay...
While Windows Defender (that comes with Windows 10) offers some virus and malware protection, if you are unlucky enough to pick up a computer virus that has som...
A recent report by ‘Hired’ has shown that the uncertainty surrounding Brexit has made UK employers less likely to seek migrant tech employees, and h...
The current Net Neutrality regulations, set in 2015 and designed to force ISPs to treat all data traffic as equal, have been overturned by two-to-one in a vote...
Hewlett Packard has reportedly unveiled a prototype computer with a massive 160TB of memory, enough to analyse the equivalent of 160 million books at the same t...
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