The GuardianTechnology Elon Musk and Grimes change baby's name: 'Roman numerals look better' The Guardian - Edward HelmoreThe tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and the musician Grimes have changed the unusual and largely unpronounceable name of their firstborn child. But anyone hoping that X Æ A-12 might be replaced by something
The GuardianTechnology Pizzas in the post: Shopify challenges Amazon for slice of lockdown trade The Guardian - Zoe WoodWhen the lockdown forced the Pizza Pilgrims chain to close, the company came up with an unusual solution to stay in business. The company, with restaurants in London and Oxford and run by brothers Thom
The GuardianTechnology Cyber security review may spell end for Huawei 5G deal The Guardian - Dan SabbaghThe National Cyber Security Centre in the UK is expected to conclude that US sanctions against Huawei will make it impossible to use the Chinese company’s technology as planned for 5G networks. The emergency
The GuardianTechnology Huge rise in hacking attacks on home workers during lockdown The Guardian - Jasper JollyHackers have launched a wave of cyber-attacks trying to exploit British people working from home, as the coronavirus lockdown forces people to use often unfamiliar computer systems. The proportion of targeting
The GuardianWisconsin Amazon threatened with closure of Wisconsin campus over coronavirus The Guardian - Kenya Evelyn in WashingtonHealth officials in south-eastern Wisconsin have warned Amazon that if the company does not fully cooperate with state testing and tracing efforts, its Kenosha campus located 40 miles south of Milwaukee
The GuardianTechnology Lockdown laptops: affordable options for those stuck at home The Guardian - Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editorWith a full return to work, school and spending time with family in real life rather than on a video call still not in sight, you may have finally decided that it is worth buying a new laptop. If you an
The GuardianTechnology Boris Johnson forced to reduce Huawei’s role in UK’s 5G networks The Guardian - Dan SabbaghBoris Johnson has been forced to cave into to Conservative backbench rebels opposed to the presence of Huawei in 5G networks and has drawn up plans to reduce the Chinese company’s involvement to zero 2023.
The GuardianTechnology Puzzled man solving 'miracle' sudoku becomes YouTube sensation The Guardian - Simon UsborneWhen Simon Anthony quit his lucrative but miserable job at a London investment bank to solve sudoku puzzles on YouTube, it looked like a bit of a leap. His early posts had done well to gain 100 views.
The GuardianTechnology Facebook expects half of employees to work remotely over next five to 10 years The Guardian - Mario Koran and agenciesFacebook will permanently embrace remote work, even after coronavirus lockdowns ease, Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday, accelerating the tech sector’s geographic diversification away from its
The GuardianJames Dyson Dyson's UK staff revolt against order to return to work The Guardian - Rob DaviesThe engineering firm Dyson told staff who were able to work from home to return to the office this week, in apparent contravention of government advice, then cancelled the plan after a mutiny among dismayed
The GuardianTechnology Apple and Google release phone technology to notify users of coronavirus exposure The Guardian - Kari Paul and agenciesApple and Google have released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. The companies had announced the unprecedented collaboration
The GuardianTechnology 'It started as a joke': the animal Zoom calls delighting a locked-down public The Guardian - Jessica MurrayWhile the rest of the world has been in lockdown, the goats of Cronkshaw Fold farm in Lancashire have never been busier. In the past few weeks they’ve been to a rave in Berlin and a birthday party in Zealand,
The GuardianLifestyle (UK) Can trolling ever be charming – or are 'good' trolls still a complete nuisance? The Guardian - Adrienne MateiThe benevolent troll-queen of the internet prefers to remain anonymous, but here’s what we know: the 30-year-old US-based cartoonist and internet personality who goes by the alias CartoonsHateHer (let’s
The GuardianTechnology Huawei MateBook X Pro review: Windows 10's MacBook Pro rival The Guardian - Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editorThe 2020 MateBook X Pro takes a winning design and upgrades the chips to Intel’s latest for a powerful and surprisingly good-value machine. The new MateBook X Pro starts at £1,299, and fits a pretty large
The GuardianTechnology The Zoom boom: how video-calling became a blessing – and a curse The Guardian - Ammar KaliaJust before lockdown, 29-year-old Ala Uddin became ill with coronavirus-related symptoms and had to self-isolate in his London flat. “For 23 days I was relying on video calls,” he says. “I hardly used
The GuardianTechnology Apple whistleblower goes public over 'lack of action' The Guardian - Alex HernA former Apple contractor who helped blow the whistle on the company’s programme to listen to users’ Siri recordings has decided to go public, in protest at the lack of action taken as a result of the
The GuardianTechnology Facebook launches shopping feature as pandemic pushes businesses online The Guardian - Kari PaulFacebook announced on Tuesday it is launching Shops, a service that will allow businesses to display and sell products on its platforms. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, is positioning Shops as a tool
The GuardianTechnology Covid-19's unlikely victim: new emojis 😱 The Guardian - Alex HernCovid-19 has taken so much from us, but now it’s come for our emojis too. As a result of the global pandemic, the Unicode Consortium, which sets standards for digital typography, has been forced to delay
The GuardianTechnology Surface Go 2 review: Microsoft’s smaller, cheaper Windows 10 tablet The Guardian - Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editorThe Surface Go 2 is Microsoft’s second iteration of its low-cost, smaller tablet computer and continues to prove that cheap Windows PCs don’t have to be terrible. The Surface Go 2 starts at £399, but that
The GuardianTechnology Streaming executive behind Disney+ to become new TikTok CEO The Guardian - ReutersWalt Disney Co’s top streaming executive, Kevin Mayer, will leave the entertainment and theme parks giant to become the chief executive officer of TikTok, the popular video app owned by China’s ByteDance,
The GuardianTechnology UK Covid-19 briefing hit by Zoom technical issues The Guardian - Clea SkopelitiUsers of the video conferencing platform Zoom reported outages on Sunday, with many unable to host or join meetings. The website DownDetector said thousands of people were having issues with the service,
The GuardianDonald Trump 'People still need to laugh': how lipsyncing spoofs saved lockdown The Guardian - Elle HuntIn the TikTok videos going viral across social media, the voices are familiar: a rambling presidential whine, or a patronising prime minister. But the people apparently speaking are altogether – and hilariously
The GuardianTechnology Millions risk being locked out of Covid-19 contact tracing app The Guardian - Alex Hern Technology editorTen million people in the UK risk being locked out of the Covid-19 contact-tracing app because of a “digital divide”, putting potential constraints on their ability to access work and safeguard their a
The GuardianTechnology 'F*ck Elon Musk': Democrat rebukes magnate over coronavirus restrictions row The Guardian - Martin Pengelly and agenciesAfter Elon Musk sued local authorities in California and threatened to move Tesla’s HQ to Texas or Nevada over attempts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, one Democratic state politician had a blunt
The GuardianTechnology Google Australia paid $133m in tax in 2019 in major victory for ATO The Guardian - Ben ButlerGoogle’s Australian arm paid $133m to the Taxation Office last year as it caught up with back taxes. The company, one of the ATO’s most high-profile targets in a campaign to get tech giants to pay tax
The GuardianTechnology Beats Powerbeats review: Apple's cheaper Bluetooth fitness earbuds The Guardian - Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editorApple’s revamped Powerbeats Bluetooth workout earphones take what was great from the firm’s true wireless earbuds and add a cable, longer battery life and cheaper price. The new £129.95 Powerbeats replace
The GuardianTechnology Addison Lee and Uber to install partition screens in cabs The Guardian - Rebecca Smithers Consumer affairs correspondentAddison Lee andUber are to install partition screens in vehicles to protect staff and passengers from infection with coronavirus, after new data earlier this week revealed that male taxi drivers and chauffeurs
The GuardianTechnology Elon Musk v public health: a timeline of the Tesla factory standoff The Guardian - Julia Carrie Wong in San FranciscoOn Monday 11 May, Elon Musk attempted to fashion himself into a hero of the anti-public-health movement when he dared authorities to arrest him for restarting production at Tesla’s northern California
The GuardianTechnology Facebook to pay $52m for failing to protect moderators from 'horrors' of graphic content The Guardian - Kari PaulFacebook has agreed to pay a settlement of $52m in a court case alleging the company failed to protect workers tasked with moderating disturbing content from the grave mental health impacts of the job.
