Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionHow restaurants with poor hygiene are still available on Just Eat Many takeaway shops in England with a zero rating for hygiene are among those listed on the Just Eat food ordering app, a BBC investigation has found. Half of outlets rated as zero by the Food …
Facebook has apologised to a mum whose baby was stillborn after she continued to receive parent-related adverts despite triggering the settings to hide them. Anna England Kerr wrote an open letter to the social media giant – asking them to stop bombarding her. “Your ads were unintentionally taunting me with reminders of what I’d lost,” …
Image copyright NTT Docomo Image caption The credit-card-sized phone will fit inside a card holder A 5.3mm (0.2in) thick 4G phone has been announced by Japan’s biggest telecoms firm NTT Docomo. The compact device, which will be released in Japan next month, is designed to fit inside a card holder. It is part of a …
Image copyright Angelene Bungay Image caption Angelene Bungay lost £13,000 after transferring it to someone she thought was her builder The name of someone receiving a payment will be as important as their banking details for the first time from next summer, in an attempt to combat fraud. At present, anyone wanting to transfer money …
Image copyright Getty Images Kleenex is scrapping “Mansize” branding from its tissue boxes after 60 years on the shelves as consumers called it out for being sexist. The company said the tissues would now be called “Extra Large”. One customer questioned the firm after her four-year-old son asked if “girls, boys and mummies” can use …
Image copyright Getty Images UK retail sales saw their biggest drop in six months in September as customers spent less on food, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. Sales fell by 0.8% from August, while annual growth slowed to 3% from 3.4%. Rhian Murphy, head of retail sales at the ONS, said sales …
Image copyright Getty Images/Twitter Image caption The data trove covers 3,800 Russia-linked accounts and 770 Iran-attributed accounts More than 10 million tweets posted by suspected state-backed Russian and Iranian “troll farms” have been shared online by Twitter. It has published more than 360GB of material to aid studies into how its platform has been used …
Image copyright Getty Images Former government adviser Philippa Stroud has told the BBC universal credit was designed around monthly payments because the “majority of people in work are paid monthly” and its creators wanted the “out-of-work experience mimic the in-work experience”. Across the UK, 85% of all employee jobs had monthly or four weekly pay …
Mitsubishi has developed a new indoor lighting system that mimics blue skies, sunrises and sunsets. The company hopes the system will prove popular in offices and homes that lack natural light. BBC Click’s Dan Simmons finds out more. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick. Source by [author_name]
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