Image copyright Xiaomi Image caption Only three Mi 8 Lite phones could be bought in the first flash sale “Flash sales” publicising a Chinese smartphone company’s UK launch have sparked a backlash on social media. Xiaomi advertised two of its new handsets for £1 each last week as part of a “crazy deals” promotion. But …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Apple chief executive Tim Cook presents the firm’s newest line of products Apple shares have slumped by more than 4%, dragging down US markets and wiping more than $40bn (£31bn; €35bn) off the tech giant’s market value. The fall followed a profit warning from one of the firm’s major …
Image copyright Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Image caption The Summit supercomputer is housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. China has been pushed into third place on a list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The latest list by Top 500, published twice a year, puts two US machines – Summit and …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Hal discovered a plan by Dave (Keir Dullea) and Frank (Gary Lockwood) to disconnect him Actor Douglas Rain, who was the voice of the sinister computer Hal in sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died, the organisers of a theatre festival he founded have said. Rain died at …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionNato holds biggest military exercise since Cold War Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila has said the GPS signal in his country’s northern airspace was disrupted during recent Nato war games in Scandinavia. He said he believed the signal had been jammed deliberately and that it was possible …
Image copyright Getty Images A judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women died. Their bodies were found under the porch of a home in New Hampshire with multiple stab wounds. The man accused of their murder has pleaded …
Image copyright Valve A man has been given $20,000 (£15,500) for discovering a bug in the Steam video games store that let people download any game for free. Security researcher Artem Moskowsky found a flaw in Steam’s portal for games developers that let anybody generate licence keys without paying. Millions of people use Steam to …
Image caption The group includes politicians, business leaders and trade union representatives An action group tasked with saving the jobs of Michelin workers in Dundee has met for the first time. The tyre manufacturer announced last week it would be closing its factory in the city which employs more than 800 people. Politicians, business leaders …
Image copyright Getty Images Shares in two tobacco giants have been hit by reports that US regulators are planning to ban menthol cigarettes. Shares in British American Tobacco fell 9% to their lowest level for nearly five years, while Imperial Brands shares fell 4%. A report in the Wall Street Journal claimed the US Food …
What began as a way to describe misinformation was quickly diverted into a propaganda tool. The BBC’s Dave Lee examines how “fake news” went mainstream – and where it might go next. This story is part of a series by the BBC on disinformation and fake news – a global problem challenging the way we …