Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mobile payments are growing in popularity – but may not work everywhere Cash is at risk of disappearing without action from regulators and the government, according to a major report published earlier this week. The system which underpins the use of notes and coins was at risk of falling …
Image copyright National Beverage Corporation Image caption National Beverage Corp makes La Croix drinks The billionaire chief executive of a US firm has been lambasted for comparing managing a soft drinks brand to “caring for someone who becomes handicapped”. Nick Caporella, the boss of National Beverage Corp. made the comment as he revealed falling quarterly …
Image copyright Getty Images Facebook has removed more than 130 accounts, pages and groups it says were part of a UK-based misinformation network. The company said it was the first time it had taken down a UK-based group targeting messages at British citizens. The same group set up pages posing both as far-right outlets and …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWATCH: Security holes found in third-party smart car alarms Security flaws in three specialist car alarms have left vehicles vulnerable to being stolen or hijacked, say researchers. The bugs were found in alarm apps by Clifford, Viper, and Pandora. The alarms are on three million vehicles. The …
BBC Clickâs Lara Lewington looks at some of the best tech news stories of the week including: Volvo unveils a full size 12m (39ft) autonomous electric bus in Singapore A remotely operated robotic hand which can relay touch to its wearer is developed A running, jumping and back-flipping bot is created by the Massachusetts Institute …
A no-deal Brexit threatens billions of pounds of chemical imports, the head of the Chemical Industries Association, Stephen Elliott, has warned. He says secondary legislation, needed to copy EU regulations into UK law, contains “significant gaps”. The loophole could halt UK imports of chemicals by EU-registered countries from countries outside the EU, he says. “Put …
America’s new commercial astronaut capsule completed its demonstration flight on Friday with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. The SpaceX Dragon vehicle left the International Space Station (ISS) where it had been docked this past week and re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. It had a heat shield to protect it from the high temperatures of re-entry. …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Windows 7 was released in 2009 but is still widely used Windows 7 users are at risk from a “serious” bug that could let malicious hackers take over their computer, Google has warned. Cyber-thieves are “actively exploiting” the vulnerability by combining it with a separate flaw found in the …
Image copyright Getty Images US jobs grew at their slowest rate for a year-and-a-half in February, coming in well below forecasts. Just 20,000 new jobs were created in February against expectations of a 180,000 increase, official figures show. It is the slowest growth in non-farm payrolls since September 2017 when employment was impacted by Hurricanes …