-
air, alert, app, Hamill, lends, Mark, News, raid, Russian, Star, strikes, Ukrainians, voice, warn, Wars, World
Star Wars star Mark Hamill lends voice to air raid alert app to warn Ukrainians of Russian strikes | World News
admin
Star Wars star Mark Hamill is lending his voice to an air raid alert app to warn Ukrainians of incoming Russian bombardments. “Attention. Air raid alert,” he says in the calming, wise manner of his famous character Luke Skywalker. “Proceed to the nearest shelter. “Don’t be careless. Your overconfidence is your weakness.” Losing city ‘could…
-
agent, app, Chew, chief, China, Congress, defends, executive, hearing, News, Shou, tense, TikTok, video, World
TikTok ‘not an agent of China’: Chief executive Shou Zi Chew defends video app during tense US Congress hearing | World News
admin
TikTok’s chief executive has sought to reassure US Congress that the Chinese-owned video app is not “an agent” of Beijing and poses no risk to national security. Shou Zi Chew faced hours of tough questioning by deputies in the House of Representatives convinced that the popular app is a “tool” of the Chinese Communist Party.…
-
TikTok: Scottish Parliament ‘strongly advises’ MSPs to remove app for security reasons | UK News
admin
Scottish MPs have been “strongly advised” by parliamentary authorities to remove the controversial social media app TikTok from any devices. The move follows a decision to ban the app from UK government devices. In an email on Friday, MSPs and staff at Holyrood were “strongly” advised to remove TikTok, including from personal devices used to…
-
TikTok ban: UK minister asks National Cyber Security Centre to look into safety of app | Politics News
admin
A UK minister has asked the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to look into TikTok after governments around the world have begun banning it from their work phones. The Chinese-owned video sharing app is increasingly under the European and US microscope over security and data privacy, with concerns it could be used to promote pro-Beijing…
-
Apple ‘set to allow rival app stores on iPhone’ to meet EU law | Science & Tech News
admin
Apple is set to allow rival app stores on to the iPhone and iPad in the EU, according to a report. Bloomberg says the company could make the move as soon as late next year to comply with a new competition law from the bloc, which has already forced the tech giant to reluctantly adopt…
-
Elon Musk hits out at Apple – and claims tech giant threatened to block Twitter from App Store | Science & Tech News
admin
New Twitter owner Elon Musk has hit out at Apple – claiming it has threatened to block his social network from its app store without explanation. The world’s richest man, who took the company private last month for $44bn (£36.7bn), also said the iPhone maker has “mostly stopped advertising” on his platform. Musk wrote in…
-
Super app or ‘Wild West’? The future of Twitter under Elon Musk | Science & Tech News
admin
Elon Musk is finally buying Twitter, promising – or to some, threatening – sweeping changes for one of the world’s biggest social media platforms. With a self-proclaimed remit to ensure everyone’s timeline becomes the ultimate home of free speech, and a vague long-term goal to transform it into “X, the everything app”, the billionaire is…
-
WhatsApp down: Thousands of people report being unable to use messaging app | Science & Tech News
admin
WhatsApp went down for users across the UK this morning, with tens of thousands of people reporting being unable to send or receive messages. Downdetector, which tracks outages, said more than 69,100 reports of problems had been submitted at 8.28am, with issues first detected just before 8am. However, the number of users that experienced issues…
-
Elon Musk’s Twitter deal back on – and he says it’s the path to creating ‘everything app X’ | Business News
admin
Elon Musk is planning to buy Twitter for his original offer price – and he’s hinted at his plans for social media. The world’s richest man is proposing to go ahead with purchasing the platform for $54.20 per share, a total value of $44bn (£38.4bn), following months of legal battles. After news of the deal’s…
-
COVID app that detects virus in your voice ‘more accurate than lateral flow tests’ | UK News
admin
A mobile phone app can detect COVID in people’s voices with “potentially high precision” using artificial intelligence (AI), according to researchers. An AI model was said to be 89% accurate and is cheap to use, which means it could be adopted in low-income countries where PCR tests are more expensive. Results can be provided in…