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Autocorrelation of a trimmed surface Photograph: Sam Ashworth/2019 EPSRC Photography Competition People and Skills category, first prize and overall winner: Syrian refugee at Azraw refugee camp by Dr Dima Albadra, University of Bath As part of a participatory design workshop, refugees in Azraq...

It was once heralded as a possible saviour of the music industry in the digital age, famously annoyed fans by forcing a U2 album on them, and its 20,699-word terms and conditions have even inspired a graphic novel, but now Apple is to replace its iTunes download service. According to a report...

Until recently, the only thing the average citizen could have told you about Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, was that s/he hadn’t the faintest idea of how to pronounce it (it’s “hwa-wei” btw, according to Wikipedia). And then, suddenly, this unpronounceable company seemed to be all over the...

Blowing raspberries Last week a startup based at Plymouth University unveiled the world’s first raspberry-picking robot. The machine can pick about 25,000 berries a day, which is 10,000 more than a human during an eight-hour shift. Raspberries are particularly challenging for machines to...

BBM, or BlackBerry Messenger, the encrypted messaging service that introduced many to the joys of mobile chat – and was blamed for the 2011 London riots – is finally shutting down on Friday. The Indonesian company that owns the service, announced its plans in April, giving users a month to...

The OnePlus 7 Pro is the firm’s largest, most expensive and most premium phone yet. While not that cheap, it still undercuts the competition by some margin, while offering sheer speed and a stunning notchless display that even its most expensive rivals can’t touch. Starting at £649, the OnePlus...

A school district in western New York is launching a first-of-its-kind facial recognition system, generating new privacy concerns about the powerful but controversial technology. The Lockport city school district is beginning implementation of the Aegis facial recognition system this week...

Uber lost more than $1bn in the first three months of the year, the ride-sharing company announced on Thursday. Releasing its first quarterly report since it became a public company, Uber said it now had 93 million customers who are active on a monthly basis, 33% higher than the same period...

May 14, 2019 / 6:28 AM / in 33 minutes (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday moved closer to developing a national electric vehicle supply chain policy, with senators voicing bipartisan support for legislation designed to parry China’s dominance in metals production and battery manufacturing...

May 14, 2019 / 8:17 AM / in 12 minutes JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Facebook’s WhatsApp said on Tuesday a security breach on its messaging app had signs of coming from a private company working on surveillance and it had referred the incident to the U.S. Department of Justice. WhatsApp, one of the...

May 14, 2019 / 5:30 AM / in 4 hours (Reuters) - With private fitting rooms, members-only stores and clever apps, U.S. department stores are reinventing their old and tested loyalty programs to fend off the challenge from e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc and other online rivals. A sign is seen...

May 14, 2019 / 6:18 AM / Updated 3 hours ago 2 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon has teamed-up with British clothing chain Next to offer a network of stores where the U.S. online retail giant’s UK customers can collect their parcels. Seeking to capitalize on the growing popularity of click &...

May 14, 2019 / 6:28 AM / Updated 5 minutes ago (Reuters) - The United States faces stiff challenges as it moves to create its own electric vehicle supply chain, industry analysts say, with the extent of the country’s metal reserves largely unknown and only a few facilities to process minerals...

May 14, 2019 / 7:43 AM / in an hour LONDON (Reuters) - Huawei is a private company that is not controlled by the Chinese government and would refuse to hand over information to Beijing although no such request has been made, the firm’s Vice President of Western Europe said on Tuesday. The...

May 14, 2019 / 8:17 AM / Updated 19 minutes ago JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Facebook’s WhatsApp on Tuesday urged users to upgrade to the latest version of its popular messaging app following a report that users could be vulnerable to having malicious spyware installed on phones without their...

May 13, 2019 / 10:02 PM / in 9 minutes WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The social media giant Facebook Inc is headed toward an agreement with the U.S. government over its privacy policies and practices that would put it under 20 years of oversight, according to a source knowledgeable about the...

May 13, 2019 / 11:20 PM / Updated 2 hours ago BERLIN (Reuters) - Amazon has almost doubled its brand value to $316 billion as it expands in areas like entertainment and smart speakers, while China’s Alibaba is now the world’s second most valuable retail brand, a survey showed on Tuesday. The...

May 13, 2019 / 8:59 AM / Updated 2 hours ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitcoin surged to more than $8,000 late on Monday, its highest level since July last year, as the cryptocurrency’s rally gained further momentum. There is no real fundamental explanation as to why bitcoin, the original...

May 13, 2019 / 2:11 PM / Updated 4 hours ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave the go-ahead to an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple Inc of forcing consumers to overpay for iPhone software applications, a decision that could lead to billions of dollars in damages...

May 13, 2019 / 9:26 PM / Updated 17 minutes ago (Reuters) - The former chief financial officer of British software company Autonomy was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison, after a U.S. jury found him guilty of fraud over the $11.1 billion sale of Autonomy in 2011 to Hewlett-Packard...