Woollip kickstarter: This is the only pillow you need for desk napping March 23, 2016 Feeling the mid-week dip? Flagging a little from early starts and late evenings? You probably need this pillow, which may just be the best invention for desk napping we've seen yet. Bonus – it's also perfect for getting a bit of shut-eye while you're travelling, too. Simply inflate the Woollip cushion and you get a strange looking [...]
Twitter stickers? The latest feature being tested to capture users imagination March 23, 2016 First came gifs, but now Twitter is said to be working on another new visually stimulating feature – this time, it's stickers. The social network is considering letting users edit photos with the addition of "sticker" images such as hearts to add a bit of personalisation. It could also suggest images to post and show how pictures have been changed [...]
Streaming overtook digital downloads and CDs as the biggest source of revenue in the US music industry for the first time last year March 22, 2016 Streaming became the biggest source of revenue for the music industry in the US for the first time ever last year, new figures have revealed – and the recent trend for buying vinyl has pushed the sector back to 1980s levels. The streaming category includes subscription services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Jay Z's [...]
Uber’s giving £10k to hackers with a bug bounty program to find security flaws March 22, 2016 Uber is offering up to $10,000 to hackers. No, it's not some sort of blackmail, it's for the friendly sort who can spot security flaws in their technology meaning they can fix it before any not so friendly hackers do. The so-called bug bounty program offers a tidy cash sum to anyone who can track down bugs in their code as [...]
Apperio, London tech startup with aim of bringing “meaningful transparency” to legal system, raises £1.7m in seed funding round March 22, 2016 London legal technology startup Apperio has secured £1.7m in a seed funding round. The company, which provides a real-time legal fee tracking platform, said it has been backed by Notion Capital, NextLaw Labs and IQ Capital among others. This was Apperio's second funding round and was led by Notion Capital, which focuses on cloud computing and [...]
Brussels airport explosions: Facebook Safety Check activated for Brussels terror attacks March 22, 2016 Facebook has deployed Safety Check, a feature designed to alert loved ones that you're ok in an emergency, after the Brussels terror attack. Explosions at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro killed more than 30 people and seriously injured many more. Some have criticised the tech company for not activating the feature earlier, however, while others have asked why [...]
Neelie Kroes joins Salesforce board: Fromer EU competition chief hot on tech regualtion just joined a tech company March 22, 2016 Neelie Kroes, the woman who spent more than a decade overseeing competition in the EU, has joined the board of US-based global tech firm Salesforce. With nicknames such as Nickel Neelie or Steely Neelie, Kroes handled antitrust cases involving many of the world's largest telecoms and tech firms. “She is an amazing and respected leader who has done extraordinary work [...]
Imagination Technologies share price rockets after news Apple is in “advanced talks” to acquire British chip design company March 22, 2016 Apple is in "advanced talks" to acquire UK chip design company Imagination Technologies. The share price of Imagination has rose by more than 17 per cent to 217p this morning, taking to company's market cap to around £600m. Imagination declined to comment and Apple has not responded to a request for comment on the story, which was [...]
Less than half of cybersecurity experts are sharing information with each other, even though the overwhelming majority who are see great benefits from doing so March 22, 2016 Clearly nobody ever told IT departments that to share is to care, as less than half of cybersecurity experts share information on threats with others in their profession. According to research released today from McAfee Labs, the threat research division of Intel Security, only 42 per cent of the cybersecurity professionals they surveyed use shared threat intelligence, [...]
FBI says it may be able to unlock San Bernardino iPhone and asks court to cancel hearing March 21, 2016 The FBI says it may have found a way to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers without help from Apple, leading the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to file a request to postpone a hearing scheduled for today. A judge has reportedly allowed the continuation, meaning Apple's legal battle has [...]