FCA says the digital assets appear to have become more normalised and viewed less as a gamble The number of UK adults who hold cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin has risen to an estimated 2.3 million, despite warnings from regulators and the head of the Bank of England that people should be prepared to lose all …
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With workers outside the ‘castle walls’ of their companies, criminals have it easier – and cryptocurrency hasn’t helped Ransomware has roared into the headlines in recent weeks after criminal hacking networks, tentatively linked to Russia, launched attacks on the major US meat packing plant JBS and the nation’s largest fuel pipeline. Joe Biden and his …
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Analysis of 20,000 mobile apps that ask for sensitive information shows that some track users across different platforms Nine out of 10 mobile health apps collect and track user data, according to a new global study. The research published in the British Medical Journal conducted in-depth analysis of more than 20,000 mobile health apps on …
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Switch; NintendoFrom Mario Kart racers to 2D platforms, this charming game-maker gives you access to the Nintendo toolkit One of the most wonderful elements of Nintendo’s Super Mario Maker titles, which give players the chance to build their own platformers, is that they provide a glimpse at how Nintendo thinks about game design. You get …
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Airbnb taskforce that ‘cleans up only after disaster strikes’ intervened after alleged attack, reports Bloomberg Businessweek An Australian woman who was allegedly raped at knifepoint in an Airbnb apartment in New York received a secret settlement of $7m which included restrictions on what she could say about the incident, according to a media investigation into …
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We asked citizens of the internet to send us the funniest things in their extremely online neighbourhood. Here’s what Alex Gallagher supplied There’s no way of dressing it up or making it out to be a more noble, onerous pursuit than it is: I am deeply online. In the decade and a half that I’ve …
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This year’s online-only E3 video game expo was hardly the usual explosion of blockbuster games, but there were still some standout stories We all wanted to see Metroid Prime 4, the long-anticipated first-person science-fiction shooter-adventure that has been in development at Nintendo for an absolute age. But instead we got a whole new Metroid – …
The California startup leads a global push toward lab-grown meat. But experts question its bold claims In December of last year, a handful of diners sat down to a futuristic meal at 1880, a members-only restaurant in Singapore. The star ingredient was “no kill” chicken – raised not on a farm but in a laboratory …
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Firm says sites are slow to act when warned that fake reviews are being solicited on their platforms Amazon has blamed social media companies for its failure to remove fake reviews from its website, arguing that bad actors turn to social networks to buy and sell fake reviews outside the reach of its own technology. …
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Premium PC with new choice of faster chips, eight-hour battery, great keyboard and face recognition Microsoft’s sleek and stylish Surface Laptop is back for its fourth generation with faster performance and a greater variety of chips. The Surface Laptop 4 is available with either a 13.5in or a 15in screen and starts at £999 in …
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