Annual rankings of global broadband speed based on 557 million tests conducted across 221 countries and compiled by Cable.co.uk showed it typically takes twice as long as to download a film in the UK than the average for Western Europe, as the UK has fallen 13 places to 47th, down from 34th a year ago.…
Thomas Rid, a German born political scientist who is now professor at the John Hopkins, a renowned expert on technology and national security traces the revelatory and dramatic history of misinformation, reveals the rise of secret deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms. “We live in a age of disinformation –…
Audi, the German carmaker has apologized for an insensitive advert showing a little girl eating a banana in front of a high-performance car, after it flared up criticism on social media. Audi tweeted in its apology, “We hear you, and let’s get this straight. We care for children. We sincerely apologize for this insensitive…
Wildlife photographer Mithun H, whose shot of black panther leopardess went viral, revealed he had to wait for six days and night in the same spot to get the shot. ” It is a fruitful though. Sayya the Black Panther and Cleopatra the Leopardess, have been courting for four years”. The Bengaluru-based wildlife photographer during…
Twitter has revealed that hackers viewed 36 accounts and its private direct messages and one of the accounts affected was according to local Dutch report is far-right politician Geert Wilders. His profile image was replaced with that of a cartoon of a black man, and his account’s background image was changed to that of a…
TikTok with strong links to China is the latest company to come under attack as tensions between President Xi’s China and President Donald Trump’s US escalate. India has already taken it off app stores as Australia and the US are considering banning the app. TikTok a free app like a short-form version of YouTube where…
Twitter was hit with a massive hack on Wednesday as several high-profile accounts tweeted about the same Bitcoin wallet, urging followers to send cryptocurrency with the promise of returning double the amount. This, of course, was an orchestrated scam. The company says it’s still investigating the incident, but has shared what it knows so far.…
Greg Jenner, writes about a vibrant cast of ovr 125 actors, singers, dancers, sportspeople, freaks, ruffians in search of celebrity’s historic roots. Dead Famous is funny and fascinating exploration of both a bygone age and how we came to inhabit our modern, fame obsessed society. The scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans…
In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders who wanted to cultivate a community of photographers and artisans released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple irresistible feature. It would make anything you captured through your phone look more beautiful. In less than two years it went mainstream and caught Facebook’s attention as…
Boris Johnson has been moved from intensive care back to the ward at St Thomas Hospital, Downing Street has said. Mr> Johnson has spent three nights in a high dependency unit at St Thomas’ Hospital in London this week having being admitted from late Sunday due to contracting coronavirus. As soon as he was given…