Logitech MX Keys and MX Master 3 review: The keyboard and mouse upgrade you never knew you needed January 13, 2020 How do you make keyboards cool? Trick question, you can’t. If anybody ever describes a keyboard as cool, or shows any interest in keyboards at all, you should turn around and walk away because they’re clearly dangerously unhinged. That being said, Logitech’s new wireless MX Keys keyboard is incredibly nice to use, and almost certainly [...]
Tech confidence holds firm ahead of upcoming EU exit January 13, 2020 Confidence among British tech startups remained steady in the final quarter of 2019, as companies awaited the outcome of the General Election and stood firm ahead of the UK’s upcoming exit from the EU. Overall business confidence rose slightly, as 74 per cent of respondents to Studio Graphene’s Tech Tracker survey said they were confident [...]
Tiktok mulls curated content feed in bid to woo advertisers January 13, 2020 Tiktok is said to be mulling the launch of a curated content feed as the Chinese social media app looks to assuage advertiser fears over harmful material posted to its platform. The video-sharing firm is considering setting up a new stream that would contain carefully vetted content from so-called Tiktok creators or videos from professional [...]
With its foray into facial recognition, Uber is normalising mass surveillance January 13, 2020 The news late last year that Uber plans to introduce facial recognition technology seems to have mostly escaped the notice of the public, buried as the story was beneath five or six paragraphs in most of the reports on the loss of the firm’s London licence. Or perhaps, as one depressing Wall Street Journal headline [...]
London leads the UK in creation of startups January 13, 2020 London continued to dominate the startup landscape in 2019, as the UK hit a record level for a second year in a row. The number of startups in London increased 2.4 per cent to 221,373 companies, a substantial portion of the 681,704 businesses created in 2019. Data from the Centre for Entrepreneurs’ annual startup index released on Monday showed that [...]
US officials to hold last-ditch talks with UK over Huawei ban January 12, 2020 US officials are gearing up for a final attempt to persuade the government to block Huawei from building the UK’s 5G network. Representatives from the US National Economic Council and National Security Agency are set to hold meetings in London tomorrow ahead of a final verdict on whether the embattled Chinese tech firm will face [...]
Three ways to prevent the UK from falling into data anarchy January 10, 2020 No business will admit to using personal data in ways that are unethical or discriminatory. But when every social media click, phone call, card payment, and gym visit pings into existence a new nugget of data, how can any of us be sure that our data is being used ethically? There are many excellent examples [...]
Just one in 10 Brits trusts Huawei amid China spying fears January 9, 2020 While the UK is yet to decide whether or not it will allow Huawei to participate in the country’s 5G network, it seems the public may already have made up its mind. Just one in 10 Brits said they trust the controversial Chinese tech firm, according to a new survey from Yougov, while 22 per [...]
Apple’s iPhone sales surging in China, government data shows January 9, 2020 Sales of Apple’s iPhone in China jumped over 18 per cent year-on-year in December, according to government data. China is gearing up for the Lunar New Year in late January – a major holiday for gift-giving in the country. Read more: Apple rekindles relationship with Imagination Technologies with new deal Apple shipped roughly 3.2 million [...]
The best (and weirdest) new gadgets from CES 2020 January 9, 2020 As difficult as it is to believe, 2019 has actually ended, slinking out of time’s backdoor like a scolded cat and into the history books under a chapter titled ‘Bloopers and Outtakes’. Of course, the annual changing of the calendar guards heralds many things – reflection, resolution, vegan steak bakes – but it’s also a [...]