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December 23
- Black Friday sales overtake Cyber Monday in 2016
- DeepMind announces second NHS partnership
December 22
- Blind NHS patients to get bionic eyes
- Reused passwords behind Groupon fraud attack
- Uber's self-driving trial hits red light in San Francisco
- Zuckerberg's AI voiced by Morgan Freeman
- Virtual Personal Assistants will become the norm by 2019
- BNP Paribas blockchain payments go live
December 21
- Orlando victims' families sue Facebook, Twitter and Google
- Blow for Snoopers Charter as EU court bans mass data collection
- Oracle staffer quits over Trump support
- GovWifi will roll out to government buildings next year
December 20
- Scientists are turning to AI to create safer batteries following Samsung Galaxy Note 7 debacle
- Hackers could use in-flight entertainment to take control of airplane
- EU: Facebook 'misled' Commission in WhatsApp takeover deal
- BlackBerry opens self-driving car research centre
- DDoS attacks increase 40% year-on-year
- EU regulators demand crackdown on big data
December 19
- Should algorithms be regulated?
- Computing classes struggling to attract students
- Data breach insurance claims hit one a day
- Over 9.5 million users alerted after Lynda.com data breach
- Water resistant device sales up, as water damage claims rise
- Government working with networks on car mobile blocking tech
December 16
- Ofcom: Millions of homes unable to access "decent" broadband
- Infosys and MongoDB want to modernise your legacy systems
- BlackBerry brand will live on in new TCL deal
- US election hack could prompt UK attacks, warns UK cyber chief
- BMW is putting IBM's Watson AI in the passenger seat
December 15
- EU Commission agrees rollout of 5G mobile broadband
- Elon Musk joins President-elect Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum
December 14
- UK has 'worse 4G coverage than Albania and Peru'
- EU proposes personal data restrictions for WhatsApp
- Apple will charge a fee of $69 to replace lost or broken Apple AirPods
December 13
- Netgear customers warned to stop using flawed routers
- Finger-lickin' hack: KFC loyalty card scheme breached
- NCA arrests 12 people in DDoS crackdown
December 12
- Popcorn Time ransomware wants you to hack your friends
- Amazon workers forced to sleep in tents, reports claim
- CEOs fear Brexit will leave firms out of step with GDPR
- Apple fixes its spammy calendar with Report Junk feature
- FoI: London councils run aging server software
- Tech leaders funnel $1bn into green energy innovation
- Microsoft reveals Zo chatbot as follow-up to Tay
December 9
- Turkish hacking group offers cyber criminals rewards for successful DDoS attacks
- Businesses spend just 5% of budgets on IT security
- Porn site xHamster protests Snooper's Charter a week too late
- Yahoo fixes a severe security vulnerability in Yahoo Mail
- How LinkedIn will invade Windows and Office
- Microsoft and Intel's Project Evo charts future of mixed reality
- UK infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber attacks
- Capita outsources jobs to robots, despite own report saying nothing to fear
- ThyssenKrupp's technical trade secrets stolen in massive hack
December 8
- Huawei teams up with Simplivity to boost hyperconvergence
- New Mirai variant 'hijacked TalkTalk routers for botnet'
- Government digital services 'fail to address public needs'
- BT and Huawei announce new 5G research partnership
- Nine in 10 NHS trusts still use Windows XP
- Qualcomm targets Intel's servers business with new chip
December 7
- Science Museum walks children through the rich history of mathematics
- IT admin fleeced Expedia for $330k in insider trading scam
- Trump summons Silicon Valley chiefs to roundtable
- European Commission clears Microsoft LinkedIn deal
- Facebook takes aim at enterprise collaboration with Workplace app platform
December 6
- Dailymotion hack exposes '85 million' user accounts
- Amazon Go is a store with no checkouts
- Uber wants to know where you go - after you leave its cars
- Uber opens AI lab to help power future of self-driving cars
- Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter unite to fight terrorist propaganda
- Hackers 'steal TalkTalk customers' Wi-Fi router passwords'
- OpenAI teaches artificial intelligence with Universe software
December 5
- BT admits it must improve as Openreach spin-off looms
- Google DeepMind makes AI training available to everyone
- Major tech companies not fighting hate speech fast enough, says European Commission
- The Brexit vote is already hurting tech salaries
December 2
- WhatsApp could stop working on older phones
- Diversity pays with tech investment
- Google makes plans to build smart city
- TalkTalk and Post Office broadband customers hit by cyber attack
- Avalanche malware network taken down by security consortium
December 1
- Android malware campaign 'targets 1 million Google accounts'
- Fitbit rumoured to be buying Pebble for a song
- Nokia to make comeback in 2017 under HMD Global
- How LinkedIn survived its early years in startup wilderness