Facebook should be ‘controlled and regulated’ or it could become a threat to democracy, a former senior intelligence boss has said. Robert Hannigan, who was head of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, said the social media giant was incapable of reforming itself. The company wanted to ‘squeeze every drop of profit’ out of users’ […]
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Customers of a major bank can now block themselves from specific types of debit card spending with a new service. Barclays is the first high street bank to introduce the tool and said it would give customers more control over where they spend their money and offer better protection against fraud. The bank says the […]
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Londoners could be whisked around the capital in a fleet of self-driving cars by 2021 after a new partnership deal was signed this week. Private hire firm Addison Lee has teamed up with driverless car specialists Oxbotica to put the autonomous vehicles to work in the capital. The move could eventually see Addison Lee’s entire […]
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The much-delayed Virgin Galactic space craft will lift off in weeks, its billionaire owner Richard Branson has predicted. He told CNBC that he hoped the first paying passengers would be on board within months if all went well. Branson’s ambitious project is part of a private space race between Virgin Galactic, Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos’ […]
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Robots and other new workplace technology could create more than 133 million jobs worldwide, dwarfing the number of those they put at risk, according to a new report. The World Economic Forum (WEF) says the advent of technology-driven automation will see about 75 million jobs disappear over the next decade with many more being created […]
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