Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionNato holds biggest military exercise since Cold War Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila has said the GPS signal in his country’s northern airspace was disrupted during recent Nato war games in Scandinavia. He said he believed the signal had been jammed deliberately and that it was possible …
Image copyright Getty Images A judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women died. Their bodies were found under the porch of a home in New Hampshire with multiple stab wounds. The man accused of their murder has pleaded …
Image copyright Valve A man has been given $20,000 (£15,500) for discovering a bug in the Steam video games store that let people download any game for free. Security researcher Artem Moskowsky found a flaw in Steam’s portal for games developers that let anybody generate licence keys without paying. Millions of people use Steam to …
Image caption The group includes politicians, business leaders and trade union representatives An action group tasked with saving the jobs of Michelin workers in Dundee has met for the first time. The tyre manufacturer announced last week it would be closing its factory in the city which employs more than 800 people. Politicians, business leaders …
Image copyright Getty Images Shares in two tobacco giants have been hit by reports that US regulators are planning to ban menthol cigarettes. Shares in British American Tobacco fell 9% to their lowest level for nearly five years, while Imperial Brands shares fell 4%. A report in the Wall Street Journal claimed the US Food …
What began as a way to describe misinformation was quickly diverted into a propaganda tool. The BBC’s Dave Lee examines how “fake news” went mainstream – and where it might go next. This story is part of a series by the BBC on disinformation and fake news – a global problem challenging the way we …
Image copyright Getty Images The pound has fallen against the dollar amid political uncertainty as Prime Minister Theresa May struggles to broker an agreement on Brexit with her cabinet. In early trading, sterling fell nearly 1% against the dollar to $1.2845. Against the euro, it was down 0.2% at €1.1422. Mrs May is trying to …
Image copyright PA Drinks giant Diageo has announced that it is selling a portfolio of 19 brands to US privately owned firm Sazerac for $550m (£427m). The list includes three varieties of Seagram’s whisky, plus Romana Sambuca and the now-defunct Booth’s gin brand. Diageo said the sale would allow it to have “greater focus” on …
Nothing to be Written is a virtual reality (VR) experience that moves you between war trenches, hospitals, trains and anxiously waiting at home for field postcards sent by soldiers during World War One. BBC Click visited two Chelsea Pensioners, Michael Allen and Michael Paling asking them to put on VR headsets to try out the …
Image copyright Getty Images Firms seeking staff are being hit by labour shortages, with a “reversal” in the number of migrants in UK workplaces, says HR body the CIPD. As Brexit approaches, the CIPD says the shortage of both EU and non-EU migrants reflects a falling interest in the UK as a destination for migrant …