Will we start the journey to a better, kinder internet? Which countries are best placed to win the AI race? And should Ivanka Trump be speaking at a tech show? Just some of the questions we address in the first edition of Tech Tent this year.
Last month, the creator of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee, told us of his plan to put it...
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Apple is pushing ahead with a lawsuit against Corellium, in what is being labelled as a move to end jailbreaking.
The tech giant began its legal battle in August, claiming the firm profits from "perfect replicas" of iOS.
Apple has now amended its lawsuit, alleging copyright infringement.
Corellium...
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Sonos is facing a backlash for encouraging customers to get rid of their old speakers when there may be nothing wrong with them.
The US speaker giant offers customers a 30% discount on new products if they follow steps to recycle their old ones.
Following these puts the device in Recycle Mode, which means it will then be permanently deactivated.
Sonos said it wanted to...
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A 22-year-old man has admitted trying to blackmail Apple by claiming he had access to millions of iCloud accounts.
Kerem Albayrak from north London threatened to wipe 319 million accounts unless Apple gave him iTunes gift cards worth $100,000 (£76,000). But an investigation found that Albayrak had not compromised Apple's systems. He has been given a two year suspended jail sentence and ordered to do 300 hours of unpaid wo...
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Uber's co-founder Travis Kalanick is to step down from its board at the end of the year.
The 43-year-old ousted the ride-hailing firm's original chief executive within a year of its creation, but was himself forced to stand down six-and-a-half years later in 2017 after a number of scandals.
He had, however, remained involved as one of its nine directors. Mr Kalanick also recently sold of...
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Apple is developing satellites that could one day offer high-speed data directly to its smartphones, tablets, watches, and computers. Bloomberg reports the Cupertino-based company has a "secret team" designing satellites, and the technolo...
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Facebook has a heavy reliance on other company's operating systems to allow its social network to function and its hardware to operate, but that may not be the case for much longer. Facebook is developing its own operating system from scratch.
As The...
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Facebook is to stop using members' phone numbers in its friend’s recommendation system in 2020 following concern about privacy implications.<...
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Enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) for your Twitter account is a good idea, but handing your phone number over to Twitter gives many pause for thought. It's also not the most secure method of protecting your account, especially when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently had his account hack...
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