Image copyright PA Potential bidders for the National Lottery are being sought by the Gambling Commission ahead of the current licence ending in 2023. The commission said it would be seeking the “best ideas, innovations and experiences” to create a lottery fit for the future. It wants the next operator to “maximise returns to good …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) broke the record held by Jeff Koons A celebrated painting by British artist David Hockney has been sold at Christie’s in New York for just over $90m (£70m) – an auction record for a work by a living artist. Portrait of …
Image copyright Getty Images EE and Virgin Media have been fined £13.3m by the telecoms regulator for overcharging customers who wanted to leave their contracts early. Ofcom said customers of both companies were left “out of pocket” by the early-exit charges. The regulator that around 400,000 EE customers who ended their contracts early were over-billed, …
Image copyright Getty Images Japan Airlines will introduce a new breathalyser system at overseas airports after one of its pilots was arrested at Heathrow Airport for being drunk. Katsutoshi Jitsukawa was arrested last month after a test showed he was over nine times the legal alcohol limit. The new measures also come after a series …
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Yoshitaka Sakurada said his lack of experience with computers should not pose a problem Japan’s new cyber-security minister has dumbfounded his country by saying he has never used a computer. Yoshitaka Sakurada made the admission to a committee of lawmakers. “Since I was 25 years old and independent I have …
BBC Click’s Nick Kwek looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Amazon announces the locations for its new US campuses IBM’s Summit becomes the world’s most powerful supercomputer Researchers aim to get a better insight into how gorillas solve complex problems See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick. Source …
Image copyright Getty Images Properties are taking longer to sell than a year ago, analysis suggests, at an average of more than three months in urban areas of the UK. Homes in cities and major towns were on the market for 102 days on average before being sold or put under offer. This was six …
Image copyright Sophie Roberts “I knew from a young age that I wasn’t the same as the other children,” says Sophie Roberts, a 34-year-old Amazon software developer based in Edinburgh. “I realised at around 14 or 15 that I was transgender but I wasn’t comfortable at that point in my life in being out about …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Our sun is a huge nuclear fusion reactor. Can we mimic its energy-making process on earth? We’re just five years away from harnessing almost unlimited power from “miniature suns”, some start-ups say: nuclear fusion reactors that could provide abundant, cheap and clean energy. In a world of global warming …
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Investigators examine one of the engines from the doomed Lion Air flight JT 610 The family of a passenger killed when a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea near Indonesia are suing Boeing over an alleged fault with the jet’s design. The lawsuit accuses the US aircraft manufacturer of …