Image copyright Getty Images YouTube will spend $20million (£15m) developing educational and how-to content on the platform, the company has announced. Some video-makers have been frustrated by changes to the platform that made it harder for them to earn money producing short and well-researched videos. Critics say YouTube’s algorithms favour long and sensationalist videos. The …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Transport Secretary Chris Grayling was giving evidence to MPs The government will decide “within weeks” whether to strip Govia Thameslink Railway of its franchise, the Transport Secretary has said. Chris Grayling has been answering MP’s questions about a timetable overhaul that caused chaos this summer. He said: “We are …
Image copyright Classic Tetris World Championship Image caption Joseph Saelee and finalist Jonas Neubauer at the contest. A 16-year-old boy from California was the surprise winner of the grand final of the Classic Tetris World Championship in Oregon. The iconic block stacking computer game is 13 years older than him. Joseph Saelee beat Jonas Neubauer, …
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is due to host the conference A website for an upcoming conference in Saudi Arabia is inaccessible after apparently being attacked by hackers. Pictures circulating on Twitter show the Future Investment Initiative website with a mocked-up photo of the country’s ruler about to execute Saudi …
Mark and Lisa Elkins are being forced to sell the house they’ve lived in for 15 years. They took out a mortgage with Northern Rock back in 2003. When an American private equity firm, Cerberus, took over former Northern Rock mortgages in a £13bn deal in 2016, it told the UK government it was planning …
Image copyright Whitbread Would you stay in a pod less than half the size of a normal Premier Inn room? For prices as low as £19, the Whitbread chain is betting the answer is yes. The first Zip by Premier Inn hotel opens in the Roath area of Cardiff early next year and will have …
Image copyright Rockstar The hotly anticipated game Red Dead Redemption 2 is due for release on Friday (26 October). The western-style adventure is set in the aftermath of a failed train robbery and is actually the prequel to the original 2010 title. It’s the first major release for studio Rockstar Games since the launch of …
Image copyright Reuters Morrisons has lost its challenge to a High Court ruling that it is liable for a data breach that saw thousands of its employees’ details posted online. The Court of Appeal upheld the original decision against the supermarket, issued in December 2017. Workers brought a claim against the company after employee Andrew …
Image copyright Vievu Image caption A Vievu camera Police in New York have been told to stop using some of their body-worn cameras after one of them exploded. On Saturday, a night officer noticed smoke coming out of their camera and took it off. It then exploded, the NYPD said in a statement. It ordered …
Image copyright Peter Macdiarmid A US private equity company has been accused of misleading the government about the biggest sale of state assets in UK history. BBC Panorama has discovered Cerberus told the government it was planning to offer homeowners better mortgage deals before its £13bn purchase of former Northern Rock mortgages in 2016. But …