Image copyright Clint Furnish Image caption Clint Furnish reckons he will miss out on £450 in savings after missing out on the 26-30 railcard by one day The launch of the new 26-30 railcard has been delayed slightly, it was announced on Friday. Millennials had been promised they could buy the popular discount card by …
BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at some of the best of the week’s technology news stories including; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg angered representatives from nine countries by refusing to attend a UK parliamentary select committee investigating disinformation and fake news Uber has been fined £385,000 for letting hackers steal data on 2.7 million UK customers. …
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The new search app would reportedly “blacklist sensitive queries” Google staff have pledged $200,000 (£157,000) to engineers if they go on strike over the firm’s work on a censored search engine for China. A prominent Google engineer started the fund after reports suggested it would avoid standard internal checks. The …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Matt Hancock says he was unaware of the sponsorship Matt Hancock has been accused of breaking the ministerial code after appearing to endorse a smartphone app. Labour MP Justin Madders is demanding an investigation after the health secretary backed the use of “GP at Hand” in an Evening Standard …
Image copyright Dave Simpson Image caption London Grammar headlined the festival at the Lulworth Estate in August Bestival headliners London Grammar are still awaiting payment from the annual music festival, which was forced into administration in September. Bestival, held annually in Dorset, also owes £105,000 to rapper and singer Plan B, aka Ben Drew. Papers …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The revised deal has been renamed as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. US President Donald Trump and leaders from Canada and Mexico have signed the successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). The revised deal has been renamed as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. Renegotiating …
Image copyright Getty Images The records of 500 million customers of the hotel group Marriott International have been involved in a data breach. The hotel chain said the guest reservation database of its Starwood division had been compromised by an unauthorised party. It said an internal investigation found an attacker had been able to access …
Image copyright Getty Images Uncertainty in the economy, as well as a squeeze on household budgets, is keeping potential buyers out of the housing market, a lender has said. The Nationwide Building Society said that demand from buyers was “subdued” and unlikely to pick up soon. UK house prices had risen by 1.9% in the …
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The company will block the content from 2019 Starbucks has announced it will block access to pornography on its free wi-fi in all its US outlets from 2019. While watching explicit content in store was always banned, the coffee giant will now actively block such content. The company has been …
Image copyright Good Fuels As things stand, the vast majority of ocean-going vessels that transport goods across the globe run on what is known as “heavy fuel oil”. It is thick, black and cheap. Dirk Kronemeiier describes it as the “dirtiest fuel ever invented by mankind.” He believes his biofuel company, Good Fuels, has developed …