Month: July 2015

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a baby girl. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

Our global expansion continues in Bucharest, Romania, the 6th largest city in the European Union* following London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, and Paris (nearly all of which feature a CloudFlare PoP!). From Bucharest, our latest data center will serve all 11 million Romanian Internet users, as well as users throughout the Balkans and Eastern Europe. In …

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A government-related agency in the US has published a report on privacy concerns relating to facial recognition. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

NatWest Bank has blamed earlier problems with its website on a series of deliberate attacks, known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

A widely used location-tracking system can be intercepted or fooled with fake data, claims a security researcher. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

A US man has shot down a drone which was hovering over his back garden. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

Spammers are exploiting the Ashley Madison hack by posting links that offer stolen data but lead to booby-trapped web pages and scams. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

The US has been spying on Japanese cabinet officials, banks and companies, including the Mitsubishi group, Wikileaks says. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

A crossbench life peer of the House of Lords, Baroness Beeban Kidron, has re-proposed a new “cultural framework” (iRights), which among other things moots the seemingly controversial idea of a universal Internet delete button where “every website” that allows people to post content would also offer the ability to remove it. On the surface this …

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A US photographer launches an internet hunt to find two women pictured on an old roll of film she discovered in a second-hand store. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

The taxi booking service Uber says it will invest $1bn to expand its business to more cities in India. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today committed itself to achieving five “ambitious” sustainability goals in the next five years, which covers everything from the energy efficiency of their on-going £3bn “Project Lighting” network expansion to improving the lives of disabled people through digital technology. As the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Virgin Media, Brigitte Trafford, …

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The tech helping Kenyan smallholders reap rich rewards Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

BBC Click’s Nick Kwek looks at some of the best of the week’s technology news Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

A team of robotic developers has built an interactive robotic climbing frame, that can roam designated play areas, ready for children to play with it. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

UK ISP Sky Broadband has announced that their unlimited ‘up to’ 17Mbps standard broadband package, which is currently being offered for free for a whole year (£10 per month thereafter), will now also come with the option of a £100 M&S or Tesco e-voucher, pre-paid MasterCard or a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 computer. The offer …

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The social network Facebook announces it has built its own drone to bring internet connectivity to remote parts of the world. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

Google is to defy a French ruling that the “right to be forgotten” should be applied globally and not just in Europe. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

Scientists in South Korea develop a tiny robot – based on the water strider insect – that can jump on water Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

Two journalists have been charged with treason after they published information about surveillance technology used by Germany’s intelligence agency. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology