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The daughter of a fraud victim has branded HSBC's dedicated fraud helpline a "disgrace" after it took 20 hours of waiting on hold to get help. Lynn Edmonds' father, Richard, had £8,500 stolen by criminals who tricked…

image copyrightGetty Images Reddit removed 6% of all content posted in 2020, according to the site's annual transparency report. Of the 3.4 billion posts made by its users in 2020, 233 million…

Apple is changing its syringe emoji to remove the dripping blood, as it becomes widely used to talk about the Covid-19 vaccine. Apple's new version has nothing inside the needle. "This makes the emoji more…

Warning: this story contains disturbing adult themes. A BBC investigation into the increasingly popular live video chat website Omegle has found what appear to be prepubescent boys explicitly touching…

image copyrightGetty Images Google-powered Chromebook laptops have overtaken Apple's Macs in popularity for the first time, analysts suggest. Consultancy IDC tracked the use of operating systems, such as…

The use of "invisible" tracking tech in emails is now "endemic", according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC's request. Hey's review indicated that two-thirds of emails sent to its users'…

A Welsh YouTube channel has been labelled "racist" and accused of expressing "foul" and "unacceptable" language and ideas. Videos featuring the group have been removed by YouTube, with advertising prevented on others. Voice…

One of the most embarrassing parts of a video call can be trying to leave but failing to find the right button. Now a device which allows you to finish a call more easily has been invented. Created by Brian Moore, a 3D-printed pull cord…

This headline from the NY Times caught my eye: Clubhouse, a Tiny Audio Chat App, Breaks Through The 11-month-old app has exploded in popularity, even as it grapples with harassment, misinformation and privacy issues. I understand that…

Today we made an incredibly difficult decision to restrict the availability of news on Facebook in Australia. For the last three years, Facebook has worked closely with the Australian government on regulation that would help better define…

A community college in North Carolina already limited by the pandemic’s remote-learning conditions is being further challenged after a ransomware attack last week disabled systems needed for online learning and forced its employees off…

Artificial intelligence can help predict how students, faculty and higher education institutions can succeed, but understanding how AI algorithms work and how they can fail is essential for avoiding harm, data scientist Cathy O’Neil said…

Google’s current enterprise communications strategy is centered around Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. A new report today reveals that Google Cloud is working on a unified messaging app for businesses. According to the Information…

Modern technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science have become popular but no one completely understands it. They appear to be extremely complicated to a layman. All these popular terms sound like a business…

I FLATTER myself that I’m intelligent. I often listen to Radio 4’s Money Box while making lunch, and can’t believe all the people who answer their phone to a random stranger and end up transferring all of their money into the stranger’s…

Barely over a year ago, we pointed out how dystopian it seemed when Chinese schools added “smart uniforms” to track their students’ attendance. But US colleges are already testing out a similar tactic with a location tracking app, which…

The 2010s made one thing clear: Tech is everywhere in life. Tech is in our homes with thermostats that heat up our residences before we walk through the door. It’s in our cars with safety features that warn us about vehicles in adjacent…

More than a dozen teams in the US National Football League have had their social media accounts hacked. The teams included the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, who will compete in the Super Bowl Championship on 2 February. The…

If Instagram showed us what a world without art looks like, TikTok shows us what a world without shame looks like. The old virtues of restraint — prudence, discretion, tact — are gone. There is only one virtue: to be seen. In…

Intellectual property policymaking can be thorny territory, often because it’s a right mentioned both in the Bill of Rights and the original text of the Constitution. The Constitution foreshadows what many of the possible difficulties in…

Police involvement in a private landlord's facial recognition trial has led a regulator to call for government intervention. BBC Radio 4's File on 4 has learned that South Yorkshire Police shared three photos of serious offenders and one…

LONDON — Britain said on Tuesday that it would not ban equipment made by the Chinese technology giant Huawei from being used in its new high-speed 5G wireless network, the starkest sign that an American campaign against the…

American doctors are taking extra precautions as they monitor and treat patients with 2019-nCoV, the coronavirus that emerged in China last month. In order to prevent the coronavirus from spreading within and beyond the hospital, the…

Congressmembers are calling for Google to take action against climate disinformation. The U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis wrote a letter addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, requesting the company take action against…

Whether to allow Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network is one of the most consequential and difficult national security decisions government has faced. It involves balancing complex technical risks with geopolitics and costs to the…

An AI epidemiologist sent the first warnings of the Wuhan virus On January 9, the World Health Organization notified the public of a flu-like outbreak in Wuhan, China, that led to city lockdowns affecting tens of millions of people. But a…

Cloud computing has been around for quite some years now. Amazon first popularized the concept in 2006, before the other tech giants followed in 2008 (Google) and 2010 (Microsoft). At the heart of this technological shift is the idea that…

Two cybersecurity leaders are combining their expertise to offer a continuous approach to improve the security posture of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and larger organisations. Companies in Switzerland and Europe have been affected…

Recently, I read Amy Jen Su’s new book, The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self–Every Day. An experienced executive coach and productivity expert, she shares principles for how to be effective…

Go syntax implementation in python. In Golang, we can create parallel tasks via keyword go: //Golang //... go XXXX(arg1,arg2) //... In golang, the thread creating has following features: The parameter passing is the same as the…