Image copyright AFP Image caption The company launched its 5G network technology at a special event in Beijing Huawei has a public relations problem – to put it mildly. Last week, Oxford University said it had decided to decline new research grants from the giant Chinese telecoms company. This week, it was Queen’s University Belfast. …
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Image copyright Getty Images Microsoft has confirmed that access to its Bing search engine in China has been restored after an outage. The firm did not offer any explanation for why the search engine had been inaccessible. The outage caused concern that the service might have been blocked by the Chinese authorities. Authorities in China …
No party would be complete without a whole load of multi-coloured balloons. They were invented by one of history’s most eminent scientists and they became increasingly popular over the 19th and 20th Centuries. But recently, sales of party balloons have plunged. Aaron Heslehurst explains why. Video producer: Jeremy Howell Source by [author_name]
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe scheme will cover products such as toiletries and breakfast cereals to begin with Toothpaste tablets instead of tubes, ice cream in aluminium tubs and body lotion in glass bottles could be what we’re all buying in future if a new environmental scheme succeeds. Tesco and French …
Image copyright AFP Image caption Barclays’ Wealth Management chief executive Tom Kalaris Barclays executives discussed going to jail in connection with a plan to raise emergency funds from the Gulf state of Qatar, a court has heard. Prosecutors played a phone call from 11 June 2008, when Barclays was seeking to raise billions of pounds. …
Image copyright AFP The billionaire philanthropist George Soros has used his annual speech at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, to launch a scathing attack on China and its president Xi Jinping. Mr Soros warned that artificial intelligence and machine learning could be used to entrench totalitarian control in the country. He said this scenario …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Katherine Jenkins is among the artists who have performed at Huawei’s concerts for the Prince’s Trust The Prince’s Trust has become the latest organisation to back away from Huawei, following security fears raised about the Chinese tech firm. The youth charity, which was founded by Prince Charles, said it …
Image copyright EPA The clouds seem to be gathering for the eurozone’s economy. At a news conference after a policymaking meeting on Thursday, European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi described an outlook that is becoming more overcast. Economic data, he said, had been weaker than expected, and the risks to growth have increased. There …
Image copyright Getty Images Pregnant women and parents returning to work will receive greater protection from redundancy under new plans. The government proposes extending legal protection against redundancy for pregnant women for six months after they return to work. The protections could also be extended to others, including men, who return from adoption or shared …