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April 29
- Topshop teams with L Marks to drive forward fashion tech
- Instagram demands LitterGram app gets a name change
- Virgin Media to invest £3bn in UK fibre optic rollout
- BT will raise the costs of its services over summer
- BA plane may have been hit by "plastic bag", not drone
April 28
- German nuclear power plant finds malware on its systems
- Young women could embrace tech careers with better support from schools
- IT teams “not fit for purpose”, say tech leaders
- International Girls in ICT Day: Interest in entrepreneurship almost equal, but we need to do more
- All ATMs can be hijacked with malware, Kaspersky says
April 27
- QNB hack allegedly compromises Qatar's secret service data
- As the iPhone’s reign ends, Apple needs a new ‘next big thing’
- Getty Images claims Google's image search 'promotes piracy'
- Google, Ford, Uber and Lyft form driverless cars coalition
April 26
- Riverbed launches SteelConnect SD-WAN product
- Google Maps-style harassment tool launched to tackle sexual violence
- Twitter makes it easier to report trolls' abusive tweets
- Android ransomware downloads malicious apps that lock your device
- BeautifulPeople.com hacked and personal details leaked
April 25
- Apple's Project Titan car plans are real, claims Ford CEO
- Facebook malware leaks employees' usernames and passwords
- Huawei FusionServer E9000 achieves record-breaking processing speed
- Google expands '20% Time' with new start-up incubator
- EE 4G network 'to cover 95% of UK' by 2020
- China blocks Apple's online book and movie services
April 22
- Thieves steal $80 million from bank without a firewall
- Catalyst start-up incubator opens for 2016 applicants
- Apple pulls support for QuickTime on Windows, leaves Adobe hanging
- Uber kills class-action lawsuits with £58m settlement
April 21
- Campaigners reveal government's secret spying regime
- Exclusive: 123-reg suffered serious security lapse while deleting 67 servers
- London bans drones during President Obama's visit
- An AI algorithm can predict who dies in Game of Thrones Season 6
April 20
- European Commission hits Google with Android antitrust charges
- Apple complies with 80% of US data requests
- Samsung shares first industry speakers for 2016 developer conference
- Opera halts development of Windows Phone browser
- Apple pays $25 million to resolve Siri lawsuit
- BT launches new scheme to support digital transformation
April 19
- Meet your future workplace: AI bots, 3D printing and virtual reality
- Scientists use AI and machine learning to detect cancer with more accuracy
- Users rage as 123-reg admits it has no customer data backups
- Huawei launches VR headset that works with Mate 8 and P9
- BlackBerry believes tech firms should submit to government requests
- EE is the best 4G network in the UK, but other countries are streets ahead
- This MIT-designed AI can predict up to 85% of cyber attacks
- YouTubers can livestream 360-degree VR videos
April 18
- Wozniak: Uber doesn't pay its drivers enough money
- Man who 'deleted company with one line of code' admits it was all a hoax
April 15
- Research reveals new way of visualising blood test results
- Microsoft vs DoJ: Redmond giant sues US Department of Justice for greater transparency
- Cloetta selects Interoute's digital infrastructure platform
- Dell launches version 13.1 of its Statistica analytics platform
April 14
- Google gives $20m to fund technology helping disabled people
- Google Chrome kills support for Windows XP, Vista and old OS X
- BT announces cybersecurity recruitment drive
April 13
- Why 4.5G and beyond are the key to the success of the IoT
- Linux Foundation: The internet is crumbling
- Facebook created M to intrigue developers
- Businesses losing tech talent due to lack of focus on innovation
- Microsoft's Patch Tuesday deals with Badlock Bug
- How CloudRAN could solve the UK’s mobile coverage problem
April 12
- Ed Vaizey: Tech City has become a beacon for UK business
- Google launches Beta Voice Access app
- This new strain of Qbot malware is tougher than ever to find and destroy
- EU-funded project calls on advanced authentication tech to stamp out student cheats
- HTC 10 hands-on
- Experts recover data encrypted by Petya ransomware
- Nationwide develops behavioural authentication prototype
April 11
- Google's latest robot climbs stairs and carries heavy weights
- Martha Lane Fox joins Twitter's board to promote diversity
- Huawei wants to be the next Apple
- Huawei talks up “video as basic” at Analyst Conference 2016
April 8
- Adobe patches ransomware flaw targeting Windows 10
- Microsoft’s Hub Keyboard lands on iOS
- Linking to Playboy piracy isn't infringement, says EU advisor
- Google helps network admins block dodgy software
- IT departments suffer from reverse skills gap
April 7
- IBM explores how IoT and analytics can help monitor Parkinson's symptoms
- Amazon builds out AI division with Orbeus 'acquisition'
- Google's self-driving cars hit the road in Arizona to test extreme heat tolerance
- White House wants agencies to open source their code
- Reddit arms users with new troll-blocking tools
April 6
- Huawei P9 hands-on
- This Firefox add-on forces other extensions to steal your data
- Jeff Bezos: We never said Amazon has the right work culture
- Donald Trump's hotel business 'targeted by cyber terrorists'
- WhatsApp announces end-to-end encryption
April 5
- Verizon: B2B start-ups lead way in IoT innovation
- Facebook captions photos for blind people
- HPE boosts high-performance computing offerings
April 4
- Apply for John Lewis’s start-up accelerator scheme
- Public open to cybercrime thanks to location tracking
April 1
- Apple turns 40 and continues to evolve
- Google pulls April Fools' Day prank after barrage of complaints
- Has the US forced Reddit to secretly hand over user data?
- Ofcom reveals EE is most reliable network