Driverless cars’ arrival looks set to shake up the automotive, oil and tech sectors December 16, 2016 The energy markets are starting to recover from their multi-year swoon, but there may be a bigger change ahead. It’s starting to look like the rise of self-driving vehicles is not only inevitable, but that it will be here sooner than many would have thought possible. That will likely upend the oil markets in ways [...]
Editor’s notes: Forget about Murdoch, media dominance is now an online battle December 16, 2016 For a while this week it felt as if we’d slipped back five years, as Ed Miliband and Vince Cable dusted down their criticisms of Rupert Murdoch. 21st Century Fox’s bid for Sky saw the former Labour leader take to Twitter like a student protester. “Do we want Rupert Murdoch controlling even more of [the] [...]
The energy answer is blowing in the wind December 16, 2016 | City Talk "Let's go fly a kite up to the highest height." And get wind of this: you can generate energy at the same time. It's true. You may have seen wind turbines working their energy magic across the UK countryside – but how about kites doing the same thing? These commercial kites achieve 'high flight speeds', over 100mph in [...]
You can start playing Super Mario Run right now December 15, 2016 It's here! Super Mario Run, Nintendo's first ever wholly owned game for smartphones and Mario's first appearance on non-Nintendo devices, has finally launched on the iPhone. Sorry Android users, this is only for iOS, with the much-anticipated arrival first teased in September at the unveiling of Apple's iPhone 7. Hot on the heels of the Pokemon [...]
Yahoo hack puts Verizon deal and Marissa Mayer under pressure December 15, 2016 Yahoo shares have dived more than four per cent in early trading in New York after disclosing a second major hack attack, twice the size of the previous one it revealed earlier this year, and which experts are calling the biggest hack in history. The revelations that user accounts were compromised come at a crucial time for [...]
Yahoo hack: These are the biggest data breaches of all time December 15, 2016 An announcement by Yahoo last night revealed as many as 1bn of its users' data may have been compromised in the biggest hack of all time. The breach is even bigger than Yahoo's previous hack, when the details of 500m accounts were stolen – at the time, that was the biggest hack in history. This [...]
Experts say Yahoo attack raises serious questions about the business and global cyber security December 15, 2016 Yahoo's year has gone from bad to worse in the last 24 hours after revealing it had broken records and been the victim of the biggest hack of all time. Just a couple of months after it revealed a similar attack – but one that impacted 500m accounts rather than 1bn in the latest revelation [...]
California regulator wants Uber to put the brakes on its self-driving cars as it doesn’t have a permit December 15, 2016 Uber's self-driving car service might be driven off-track, after the California highways regulator ordered it to pull the service hours after it was launched. Uber had started giving passengers the option of a self-driving car with a safety driver when booking a journey. Regulators said the ride-hailing app firm had to stop immediately and get [...]
Yahoo hack: How to find out if your details have been stolen and what to do if they have December 15, 2016 Last night Yahoo disclosed what is thought to be the largest cyber attack in history. Up to 1bn accounts are thought to be affected by the hack, which Yahoo said took place in 2013. How do you know if you've been affected? And what should you do if you have? We've answered all your questions [...]
In pictures: After the vacuum and the hairdryer, Dyson engineers have redesigned the humble Christmas tree December 15, 2016 First it was the vacuum cleaner, then it was the fan, and then it was the hairdryer. Now engineers at Dyson have redesigned the humble Christmas tree. Forget your Nordman Firs – the design, produced by engineers at Dyson's snazzy new campus included baubles made of hairdryers and 1,500 LEDs which can be remotely controlled to display different [...]