August 9, 2023
Facebook’s spread not linked to psychological harm, study finds
There is no evidence the global spread of Facebook is linked to widespread psychological harm, an Oxford Internet Institute (OII) study suggests. The research looked at how well-being changed in 72 countries as the use of the social media platform…
August 7, 2023
Elon Musk says X will fund legal bills if users treated unfairly by bosses
Elon Musk has said X, formerly known as Twitter, will pay the legal bills of anyone who is treated unfairly by their employer for their activity on his social media platform. On Sunday, Mr. Musk told users that financial assistance from his platform…
August 6, 2023
Razzlekhan and husband guilty of $4.5bn Bitcoin launder
A husband and wife cyber-crime team have pleaded guilty to trying to launder $4.5bn (£3.5bn) of Bitcoin that he had stolen in a hack in 2016. Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested last year in New York after police traced their riches…
August 1, 2023
What China’s new move in microchip war means for world
China is due to start restricting exports of two materials key to the semiconductor industry, as the chip war with the US heats up. Under the new controls, special licenses will be needed to export gallium and germanium from the world's…
July 27, 2023
Sam Altman launches eyeball scanning crypto coin
A cryptocurrency project described as being "dystopian" has been launched by AI entrepreneur Sam Altman. Worldcoin gives people digital coins in exchange for a scan of their eyeballs. In sites around the world, thousands of people queued to gaze…
July 25, 2023
Rare Apple computer trainers on sale for $50,000
A pair of rare Apple trainers are being sold by auction house Sotheby's for $50,000 (£38,969). The shoes were custom-made for employees only in the 1990s and were a one-time giveaway at a conference. A pair have never been sold to the public……
July 17, 2023
Call of Duty battle over after Sony deal with Microsoft
Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation in a deal between Sony and Microsoft, ending a fight over its future. It comes after a US judge rejected calls to block Microsoft from taking over games publisher Activision Blizzard. Microsoft's Phil Spencer…
July 10, 2023
Threads app signs up 100m users in less than a week
Threads, the social media app aimed at rivaling Twitter, has signed up more than 100 million users in less than five days, according to new data. It means Threads, launched by Instagram owner Meta, has beat a record set by Open AI's ChatGPT app.…
July 4, 2023
Twitter began to restrict how many tweets its users could read
Elon Musk tweeted that unverified users could read 1,000 tweets, and verified users 10,000 per day. People began to share screengrabs of messages that they'd "exceeded" their daily allowance of tweets. Elon Musk was doing something that seems…
July 1, 2023
Virgin Galactic completes its first commercial flight into space
Galactic 01 carried a crew of six on its roughly 90-minute flight to the edge of space. A rocket was released from a plane at around 50,000ft, its engine then ignited and sent it on a near-vertical climb to around 50 miles above the Earth. The crew…