TikTok users posting videos of cats or dancing do not pose a security threat to the UK, a cabinet minister has said, as he defended
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Australian Open avatars helping tennis reach new audience
The proposition is compelling: near-live, commentated coverage of the Australian Open, free to anyone across the world via YouTube, enhanced via a stream of comments
‘Like a big box of chocolates’: Tom Hanks puts his typewriters on display
Some celebrities collect art, rare film prints or plain old action figures. (Welcome to the club, Leonardo DiCaprio.) Tom Hanks, somewhat famously, collects something that’s
Drones flying into jails in England and Wales are national security threat, says prisons watchdog
Drones have become a “threat to national security”, the prisons watchdog has said, after a surge in the amount of weapons and drugs flown into
Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments
Schools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making ransomware payments under government proposals to tackle hackers. In a crackdown on such cyber-attacks,
Brazil says Meta getting rid of factcheckers is ‘bad for democracy’
The decision by the social media giant Meta to end factchecking in the United States is “bad for democracy”, Brazil’s newly appointed communication minister, Sidonio
Quitting smoking may be easier with a smartwatch app, researchers say
Smartwatches could be used to help people quit smoking, a study suggests. Researchers have developed pioneering motion sensor software that can detect the typical hand
Blind people excluded from benefits of AI, says charity
Blind and partially sighted people are being excluded from the benefits of artificial intelligence tools and facing “a new level of discrimination”, the new president
Amazon push may help Tom Grennan beat Wham! to UK Christmas No 1
Alexa, can you make a Christmas No 1? As this year’s battle for the most played and bought track of the festive season reaches its
More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
More than 140 Facebook content moderators have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder caused by exposure to graphic social media content including murders, suicides,