Faced with so much new music, major labels are using algorithms to hunt down tomorrow’s hits. Is this great news for rising stars – or the recipe for a bland new future? One lunchtime about three years ago, Hazel Savage and Aron Pettersson set a new piece of software running on a laptop then went …
FCA steps up oversight amid warning to consumers about platform Britain’s financial regulator has ordered Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, to stop all regulated activity and issued a warning to consumers about the platform, which is coming under growing scrutiny globally. In a notice dated 25 June, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) …
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Forget schools or a nice pub nearby. A good internet connection is a top priority. But not all properties are equal It used to be that demand for homes centred on the proximity to good schools, or how close they were to a nice restaurant or pub. Now, before they sign on the dotted line, …
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Managerial hierarchies must learn the true lessons of the pandemic if they are to survive and thrive Pandemics, the historian Yuval Noah Harari has observed, have a way of accelerating history. Just ask the founders of Zoom. Only two years ago, we were all thinking that it would take at least another decade before video-conferencing …
They were sold as gadgets that meant you would never miss a delivery. But now doorbell cameras – from Amazon’s Ring to Google’s Nest – are recording our every move I have got a new doorbell. It’s brilliant. It should be; it cost £89. It’s a Ring video doorbell; you’ll have seen them around. There …
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Change affecting all firms apart from game developers will increase pressure on Apple and Google Microsoft will no longer force companies to pay it a cut of their revenue if they want a place on the Windows app store, the company has announced, in a move calculated to increase the regulatory pressure on Apple and …
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CMA will decide whether consumer law was broken by not taking sufficient action to protect shoppers Amazon and Google are to be investigated by the UK competition watchdog over concerns the tech companies have not done enough to tackle the widespread problem of fake reviews on their websites. The Competition and Markets Authority, which began …
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New message warns that results are ‘changing quickly’ and may not yet include reliable sources Google has started warning users when they search for a topic that is likely to have poor results, as part of its effort to tackle “data voids” on the search engine. The new warning was spotted by Renee DiResta, an …
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At this stage, being a parent is more about negotiation and trust, says Annalisa Barbieri. Sit down as a family and talk about it – make rules together I have two children, aged nine and 11. We’ve always limited their tech but just before the pandemic, we bought them tablets to give them access to …
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Young TikTok users are sharing their passion for books with millions – bringing titles they love to life online and reshaping the publishing world, all in under a minute In August 2020, Kate Wilson, a 16-year-old from Shrewsbury, posted on the social media video platform TikTok a series of quotes from books she had read, …
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