Technology

We spoke to Baroness Beeban Kidron, chair of the Five Rights Foundation which promotes online protection and regulation for children and young people.

Millions of teenagers, not to mention cabinet ministers, love to post on the social media app TikTok.  But today the British government said it would ban TikTok from government phones over fears that there could be a risk to ‘sensitive data’. 

The number of cars rolling off British production lines has fallen to its lowest level for 66 years.

Social media bosses who repeatedly fail to protect children from online harms will face jail, after the Government was forced to head off a potential rebellion by Tory backbenchers. Under the changes to the Online Safety Bill, executives whose platforms fail to block content involving abuse, suicide and self harm could get two years in…

Facebook owners Meta have agreed a £600 million settlement in a US case, over a data breach linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

ChatbotGPT is a new artificial intelligence programme designed to simulate human conversation and tackle complex questions. It’s made by Open AI foundation, a tech-startup co-founded by Elon Musk, and it draws on text taken from a variety of sources on the internet and its creators say it has learned how to answer academic questions, and…

A plan to make big tech companies remove ‘legal, but harmful’ content has been scrapped from the Government’s Online Safety Bill – to the dismay of campaigners who’ve described it as a hugely backward step. 

It’s a fraud which is costing banks and consumers millions of pounds every month – cases of Authorised Push Payment fraud have reached record levels. 

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, reached a deal to buy Twitter.

In Russia, TikTok has become the latest social media site to restrict operations. 

If the Russians are relying on overwhelming force, how does Ukraine counter that? 

We were joined by Michelle Shi, the global manufacturing and procurement director at Dyson.

More than a dozen workers making products and components for Dyson are taking legal action against the company, alleging a string of labour abuses at a supplier in Malaysia, a Channel 4 News investigation can reveal. 

Welcome to the brave new world of biotech and robotics – where people can interact with each other through time and space in ways which were once the stuff of science fiction.

What the unravelling of a once Silicon superstar tells us about the world of start-ups and high-level investors.