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Google Buys UK Artificial Intelligence Start-Up DeepMind
Reported $400 million deal is Google’s largest European acquisition to date
AT&T Rules Out Vodafone Takeover Bid For Six Months
UK takeover panel requests AT&T makes its position clear after months of speculation
Hackers Infiltrate Israeli Ministry Of Defence
Researchers say Israel's Civil Administration computer was infected with Xtreme RAT malware
Lloyds Fixes IT Systems Failure That Prevented Card Payments
Lloyds, TSB, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers are left red-faced after being unable to use their cards on Sunday afternoon
BBC CTO Sacked Over Failed Digital Project
John Linwood was fired from the BBC without a payoff over the failure of the BBC's digital production scheme
Gmail, Google Services Hit By Outage
The service issues, which affected a range of Google products, began on Friday evening and lasted about an hour
In Pictures: The History Of The Apple Mac On Its 30th Birthday
The Apple Mac celebrates its 30th birthday, but do you remember them all?
Qualcomm Hoovers Up HP’s Palm Patents
HP finally gets rid of the patents it acquired in the disastrous purchase of Palm back in 2010
BT To Invest Another £50m In Urban Fibre Rollout
BT to connect 400,000 more homes and businesses across 30 cities to its fibre network
Smart Meters Really Are Saving People Money – British Gas
Nine out of ten customers have managed to improve their energy usage habits thanks to smart devices
Samsung Quarterly Profits Fall First Time In Two Years
The company warns the situation might not improve next quarter
Pope Francis Celebrates Internet As ‘A Gift From God’
The pontiff says we should continue using social media, despite the 'violent aggression' of advertising
Millions Of Email Passwords Stolen In Germany
Germany's federal security bureau (BSI) warns 16 million Germans may have had passwords to online services stolen
GSMA Says Ofcom Spectrum Licence Increases Will Affect 4G Rollout
GSMA says UK operators can't afford LTE upgrade if they have to pay more for a licence
Microsoft Profits From Strong Enterprise Demand
Microsoft reports better than results as strong enterprise demand delivers record sales
Quiz Of The Week: Fibre Broadband
Thanks to optical fibre we have superfast broadband. How well do you know it?
Sugar-Powered Battery Could Be Your Phone’s Next Boost
Breakthrough from American scientists means your smartphone or tablet could be sugar-powered in just a few years
Nokia Handset And Network Equipment Sales Slump In Q4
Nokia and Microsoft both have much to do once devices and services sale is complete
Facebook “To Lose 80 Percent of Users By 2017”
Research from Princeton University compares Facebook to an ‘infectious disease” and predicts we will all recover
Davos: Two-Year Investigation Into Future Of The Internet Announced
Commission chair Carl Bildt says open and flexible model of the Internet increasingly under attack
Lenovo Confirms Purchase Of IBM x86 Server Business For £1.4 billion
Lenovo will also take on 7,500 IBM workers under terms of the deal
Ofcom Protects Consumers And SMBs From Mid-Contract Price Hikes
New Ofcom rules allow telecoms customers to exit if contracts change
Verizon’s Transparency Report Shows Another Rise In US Data Requests
Verizon reveals the masses of data requests it receives from the US government and law enforcement
Microsoft Readies Zero-Carbon Data Centre
Microsoft to utilise biogas derived from local municipal waste for clean data centre energy
Russian Government Accused Of Industrial Cyber-Espionage
CrowdStrike claims the ‘Energetic Bear’ group has been hacking foreign companies on behalf of the Russian state
China Suffers Internet Outage After ‘DNS Hack’
Large-scale Internet outage in China raises questions about the Great Firewall
Cool Jamaican Olympic Bobsleigh Campaign Raises Value Of Dogecoin
Crowdfunding using Dogecoin sends Jamaican bobsled team to Sochi
Russian Programmer Armed ‘Potato’ Malware Used On Target
Rinat Shabayev says he modified Kaptoxa malware to earn some money
Homeland Security Grills Google Glass-Wearing Cinema Goer
Google Glass gets anti-terror grilling over suspicions of copyright theft