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By Michael Moore Facebook users sick of being tagged in unflattering photos, or guilty of sharing them, could soon get a reprieve thanks to a new drive by the company to better understand its users. The social networking site is looking at developing a “digital assistant” program, which learns your usage habits and can offer […]

By Tom Jowitt The arrival of driverless cars on British roads has moved significantly closer after it was revealed that four English cities will host testing schemes of the vehicles next year. The tests are part of the government’s efforts to allow driverless cars on British roads by 2015. Real World Tests The decision was […]

By Michael Moore British shoppers can now complete their purchases with just a single touch of their mobile devices, thanks to the rollout of a leading payments technology. Payments provider Braintree has announced the U.K. launch of its OneTouch payments service, which means users no longer need to enter a username and password when they […]

By Steve McCaskill EE is to connect 1,500 rural communities in the UK to its 4G network by the end of 2017 using micro network technology that makes it easier and more economical to reach isolated locations by eliminating the need for cables. Micro networks can connect up to 150 properties within a half square […]

By Steve McCaskill RBS has been fined £56 million for an epic IT failure in June 2012 that left millions of customers without access to basic banking services for several days. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) dished out a £42 million fine and the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) issued a £14 penalty, […]

By Tom Jowitt Human rights campaign group Amnesty International has released software that it says can detect whether computers are infected with surveillance spyware from government agencies. The Detekt software aims to help activists and journalists (and indeed members of the public) detect whether they are under government surveillance, but experts have questioned whether a […]

By Michael Moore The U.K. is fast becoming a nation of contactless shoppers, as the technology begins to take off and is close to becoming mainstream, new research has revealed. Data from payments provider Worldpay has shown that the total number of contactless transactions completed in the U.K. rose by more than 150 percent over […]

By Michael Moore The U.K. is struggling to turn into a nation of mobile workers as productivity apparently takes a nosedive whenever we are out of the office, a report has found. Research by Ricoh found that 75 percent of U.K. workers believed they were less productive when away from their desks as they did […]

By Michael Moore NHS chiefs have backed new plans which would see patients able to gain access to their medical records using their smartphone or laptop. The NHS aims to be able to provide access to GP records through dedicated apps and specially designed digital platforms by early 2015, with access to all health records—held […]

By Tom Jowitt Scientists have come up with a potentially very useful development for parents to help make batteries safer if they are accidentally swallowed or ingested. In the United States alone, it is estimated that nearly 4,000 children a year have to go to the hospital after swallowing the flat disc-like batteries commonly found […]

By Tom Jowitt Researchers have developed a tiny robot that could, in theory, swim through the bloodstream of a human being in order to deliver medicine to the problem area. The development was made by a team of researchers led by Prof. Peer Fischer at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart. Engineered […]

By Steve McCaskill Speed will not be the key differentiator of 5G networks, according to the head of the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey, who says the next generation of mobile connectivity will be user-centric, offer low latency and offer an impression of “infinite capacity.” Professor Rahim Tafazolli outlined the center’s […]