Robert Scammell
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8 Jan
Genetically modified spicy tomatoes could lead to cheaper pain relief
Scientists are trying to create genetically modified spicy tomatoes in the hope of mass-producing the spice molecule found in chilli peppers – something that could, in turn, lead to cheaper over the counter pain relief.
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8 Jan
This robot delivery dog will hitch a ride in a driverless car to deliver your packages
German automotive manufacturing giant Continental AG has unveiled its solution to autonomously deliver packages to your front door: robot delivery dogs.
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7 Jan
700m virtual personal assistants expected in vehicles by 2023 – here are the three main types
Virtual personal assistants (VPAs) such as Siri and Alexa are expected to proliferate vehicles over the next five years, with markets analytics company IHS Markit forecasting some 700 million software platforms to be in cars by 2024.
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7 Jan
Astrocast announces three partners to pilot its IoT nanosatellite network
Nanosatellite startup Astrocast has announced three new pilot companies that will utilise its network of IoT cubesats.
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24 Dec
Earthrise at 50: What will be the next image to change the world?
On Christmas eve 1968, 50 years ago today, humans orbited the Moon for the first time in history.
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19 Dec
Uber appeal rejected as Court of Appeal rules drivers are workers
The UK’s Court of Appeal has ruled that Uber drivers are “workers” and therefore entitled to the minimum wage and holiday pay.
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19 Dec
Hacked EU cables reveal concerns over Trump, Russia and Iran
Hackers have intercepted more than a thousand confidential European Union communications over the past three years, the New York Times has reported.
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18 Dec
CMA audit reforms a “watershed moment” for sector
Accountancy firms face an overhaul to the way they conduct audits under proposals by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition watchdog.
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17 Dec
Who’s top of the football cybersecurity league? Probably not who you think
It’s not often that football and cybersecurity are mentioned in the same sentence. But with endless streams of data being collected by teams to inform their strategies both on and off the pitch, a cybersecurity incident could be catastrophic.
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14 Dec
Latest Elon Musk Bitcoin scammer lures users on ramen tweet
A professional golf long driver appears to have had has his Twitter account hacked to spread the latest Elon Musk bitcoin scam.
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14 Dec
Watch: Spectacular video of Virgin Galactic space flight
Yesterday Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic test flight successfully flew to the edge of space, marking a major milestone in the commercial space race.
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13 Dec
NVIDA releases Jetson AGX Xavier to power next-gen AI robots – and it fits in the palm of your hand
GPU maker NVIDIA has released the Jetson AGX Xavier module, bringing powerful computing to AI machines such as manufacturing robots, autonomous cars and handheld DNA sequencers.
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13 Dec
Brexit: What happens next?
There are 106 days until the UK leaves the European Union on the 29 March 2019.
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12 Dec
Kanye West, Pentagon and Nutella among worst password offenders 2018
Kanye West topped the list of ‘worst password offenders 2018’ for revealing his phone password to the world live on TV during his White House meeting with Donald Trump.
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12 Dec
Who is backing Theresa May in no-confidence vote?
Theresa May faces a no-confidence vote from the Conservative party after the 1922 Committee received the 48 letters necessary to trigger a vote in her leadership.
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11 Dec
24 hours, 7,000 bots: How Twitter amplification bots are faking popularity
Research carried out by cybersecurity firm Duo Security have found more proof that Twitter bots are being used to inflate the popularity of content, finding evidence for 7,000 potential Twitter amplification bots in just 24 hours.
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10 Dec
Brexit increased UK energy bills by £2bn – and it could be about to get worse
In the year after the Brexit referendum consumers paid an average of £75 more for gas and electricity, an overall increase of £2bn.
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10 Dec
A third of consumers don’t trust any companies with their personal data
The seemingly endless data breaches of 2018 have taken its toll on consumers, with almost a third (32.3%) stating that they would not let any company use any of their personal data.
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7 Dec
Connected car market expected to be worth $225bn by 2025
The connected car market is expected to be worth $225.16bn by 2025, according to a report by Allied Market Research.
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7 Dec
Dark web recruitment: In the web’s lawless underbelly, there are still rules
What we see when we browse the web is just the tip of the iceberg.
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6 Dec
PolySwarm to offer hackers cryptocurrency for discovering malware
PolySwarm is set to launch a decentralised cyber threat intelligence marketplace before the end of the year, in which security experts get rewarded with cryptocurrency for discovering new malware threats.
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4 Dec
Quora hack reaction: ‘No sector is safe’ as 100m users’ data stolen
Question and answer website Quora has suffered a data breach affecting more than 100 million of its users, prompting cybersecurity experts to comment that the Quora hack shows how no sector is safe from cyberattacks.
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4 Dec
Who’s to blame in an autonomous car accident? A legal expert considers three scenarios
As car makers steam ahead in the driverless car race, lawmakers are being left in the dust – and one of the biggest grey areas is liability in the event of an autonomous car accident.
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3 Dec
Realistic 3D printed bones promise lower rejection rates
Scientists from German research organisation Fraunhofer have devised a process to make 3D printed bones that are more realistic and less likely to be rejected by the human body than previous versions.
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30 Nov
Marriott data breach: Details of 500m hotel guests exposed — could it face a GDPR fine?
Marriott International Inc., the parent company of leading hotel chains such as the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott, has suffered a data breach which exposed the details of some 500 million guests.
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30 Nov
Thousands of commercial electric vehicles to trial in UK next year
The UK’s energy regulator Ofgem has given the green light to a trial of up to 3,000 commercial electric vehicles (EVs) to begin in 2019, as part of the biggest push yet to prepare the country for the EV revolution.
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29 Nov
Business digital asset spend surpasses traditional deals for first time
Businesses around the world are now spending more on digital and technology assets than on traditional mergers and acquisitions, a comprehensive report by leading global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has found.
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28 Nov
FBI and Google take down $30m botnet ad fraud operation
The FBI, Google and a host of cybersecurity companies have combined to take down a botnet ad fraud operation that made nearly $30m in illegal online advertisement activities.
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28 Nov
Hiber nanosatellites to bring internet access to remotest reaches of Earth
Dutch space startup Hiber is set to launch the first of its nanosatellites into orbit today as part of its mission to provide the entire planet with internet access.
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27 Nov
First seized Facebook documents revealed in government grilling
The first details of Facebook documents seized by the UK Parliament have revealed that entities with Russian IP addresses pulled “over three billion data points a day” through a Pinterest application programming interface (API).