TECHNOLOGY

Whether you are a product- or service-based business, you will most likely have a website or are in the process of creating one. While I teach entrepreneurs how to create their own DIY website, I’ve noticed that once they have mastered the steps, there is always one question that follows: How do you make money from your website once it’s ...

Apple removed messaging app Telegram from its app store because some users were sharing images of child abuse. The explanation was revealed in an email from Phil Schiller, manager of the App Store, which was published by Apple news site 9to5Mac. The secure messaging app returned to the app store within hours with fixes to prevent the illegal content being ...

More than 746,000 phishing emails pretending to be from the NHS were blocked in just one month in 2017, the National Cyber Security Centre says. A report on the first year of the GCHQ unit’s cyber-defence programme found that it removed 121,479 phishing sites hosted in the UK. This reduced the UK’s share of global phishing attacks from 5.3% to ...

The value of Bitcoin has fallen to below $6,000 – its lowest price since November 2017. The price fell to $5,947.40 (£4,256.44) on Tuesday, according to a price index run by news website Coindesk. Bitcoin reached its peak in November, when it hit $19,000, and then began to fall steadily from mid-December. The latest fall comes a day after several ...

A Poundland ad campaign that featured innuendo and depictions of sexual acts has been deemed “irresponsible” by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The pre-Christmas social media posts featured a “naughty” toy elf and were published on Twitter and Facebook. One image featured the elf holding a tea bag in a suggestive pose with a plastic doll. The ASA ruled that ...

The BBC is launching its first augmented reality app. It will enable people to explore historical artefacts from UK museums in virtual exhibitions. It is a companion to BBC Two’s Civilisations series, which will be broadcast in spring 2018. Users will be able to view and explore artefacts virtually – for example, looking at a mummy inside a sarcophagus. Other ...

Ex-Uber boss Travis Kalanick has taken the stand at a trial accusing his former firm of stealing driverless car technology from Google’s Waymo. The San Francisco trial pits two of the biggest players in self-drive technology against each other. Lawyers for Waymo pressed Mr Kalanick on allegations he orchestrated a theft of trade secrets from Waymo, via former Google employee ...

Bitcoin is proving that cryptocurrencies can erase wealth as fast as they create it. Its January slide knocked $44.2 billion off the $200 billion in market value generated in all of last year, the biggest one-month loss in dollar terms in the short history of digital assets. The cryptocurrency fell by 30% to start the year, erasing $44 billion in ...

The last week has seen PS Plus subscribers on an emotional rollercoaster as games were leaked, questioned, revealed as fake and then bizarrely offered for free again. Initially, it was suggested that the PS Plus February 2018 line-up had leaked ahead of time, with Far Cry 4, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin and PlayLink title That’s You ...

Call him the ultimate hodler. After being one of the first musicians to accept Bitcoin all the way back in 2014, Rapper 50 Cent (a.k.a. Curtis Jackson) appears to have accumulated a small fortune in the volatile digital currency. As TMZ first reported, and the man himself seems to have confirmed, 50 Cent left his Bitcoin sales untouched until rediscovering ...