Image copyright Sainsbury’s Sainsbury’s has seen sales fall over Christmas after general merchandise trading was hit by consumer caution. Like-for-like retail sales, which exclude sales from new stores, fell by 1.1% across the Christmas period. General merchandise sales, including at Sainsbury’s-owned Argos, fell by 2.3% and overall clothing sales by 0.2%. Chief executive Mike Coupe …
Image copyright Samsung Image caption Arch-rivals Samsung and Apple have snuggled up together in Samsung’s new Smart TVs Samsung has said that from spring 2019 its new smart TVs will include iTunes – software made by rival tech firm Apple. The move was “a true first”, senior Samsung executive Dave Das told the CES tech …
Start-ups from across the world are preparing for the opening of CES’s show floors. The event is the biggest tech expo in the calendar and one of the world’s biggest conferences. Read and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019 The BBC’s Dave Lee took a high-speed tour of some of the weirder innovations on …
Image copyright PA The military is helping police after sightings of a drone temporarily halted flights at Heathrow airport on Tuesday. Scotland Yard said a “full criminal investigation” had been launched into the incident – and that officers were among those to see the drone. Departures from the west London airport were suspended for about …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWATCH: Chris Fox tries out Lumen, the breath test gadget that gives dietary advice Two gadgets that analyse the gases in people’s breath in an effort to reveal how they should improve their diet are being showcased at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. Lumen and …
Image copyright Getty Images A ban on nuisance calls, texts and emails about pensions has now come into force but people are still being urged to be on their guard. Cold-calling has been used by fraudsters trying to steal life savings or persuade people to invest in high-risk schemes. Some 10.9 million unsolicited pension calls …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The UN warns about migrants not using their skills, leaving “surgeons flipping burgers” Migration remains one of the most potent international political dividing lines – with arguments about controlling borders and pressures on local services. But a report from the United Nations warns that once migrants have arrived, host …
They say it’s hard for a young woman to break the glass ceiling, but artist Beth Gates has decided to smash right through it instead. The 20-year-old, from Farnham in Surrey, is one of a very few young, female glassblowers in the UK. Beth works at a studio in Child Okeford, Dorset, and says peoples’ …
Image caption Losing house keys can be an expensive experience A digital solution for lost house keys has been revealed at the CES tech show. KeyHero will scan and upload a precise image of a key to the cloud for free, but it can only be accessed in one of the firm’s partner stores. This …
Image copyright EPA Image caption User @_0rbit tweeted new information every day in December A 20-year-old man has made a “comprehensive” confession that he was behind a data breach affecting hundreds of high-profile Germans, police say. Styling himself “G0d”, he published private information about politicians, journalists, and celebrities on Twitter, under the username @_0rbit. Investigators …