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May 31
- Should sentient AI eventually be given 'human' rights?
- VirnetX demands FaceTime and iMessage block
- MySpace confirms it has been hacked
- Tumblr hack affected 65.5 million users
- Google gets tough on handset makers neglecting Android updates
- Bitcoin value rises to $500 in 20-month high
- Intel unveils new 10-core 'Extreme Edition' processors
May 27
- Locky ransomware continues to bypass security
- Healthcare wearables could ease burden on NHS
- Google is constructing a new self-driving R&D centre in Michigan
- Facebook and Microsoft plan to lay a massive cable across the Atlantic
- Reddit resets 100,000 passwords in wake of LinkedIn hack
- Another 1,000 innocent people listed in biometrics database
- Smartphones at risk of data hack via USB charging port
May 26
- HP Enterprise spins off services division
- Has Pinterest been targeted by the FBI?
- Google, Slack, Arkadin and more to attend Collaboration and Communication event
- Three mobile ad-blocking coming in June
- Study shows snapshot of misogynistic abuse on Twitter
- WhatsApp Gold: stick with green, it's a scam
- BT's live core network speed tests smash 5.6Tbps mark
- Kaspersky spots patched Microsoft Office vulnerability risk
May 25
- Citrix wants to deliver Windows 10 as a service
- Dubai 3D prints an office with plumbing, electrics and lighting
- Brian May dusts off Victorian technology to build Google Cardboard VR rival
- The Pirate Bay returns to its .org domain
- HPE spins off enterprise services for "laser focus"
- Google's Paris office raided following tax evasion claims
- Raspberry Pi turned into thin client by Citrix
May 24
- NetSuite: Cutting channel pays off for partners
- Your pictures, videos, and usernames will no longer count towards Twitter's 140-character limit
- Google builds its own chips to turbo-power AIs
- Google wants to create an AI musician by teaching it our music history
- Asigra teams with Azlan to target MSPs
- Facebook overhauls Trending Topics in wake of bias claims
- Gemalto joins Cloud Foundry Foundation
- Surrey teenager charged over 'misogynist' Mumsnet hack
May 23
- Windows Phone is all but dead after sales sink below 1% of market
- NetSuite revamps partner segments
- Fitbit heart rate monitors are off by 20 BPM, study shows
- 11 of the best Ted Talks on technology
- Mobiles to shape future of contactless payments
- Motorola could be reviving the Moto Razr
May 20
- Sabre selects Virtustream's IaaS and managed services
- Digital divide: one in ten Brits haven't used web
- EU could force Netflix to show more European content
- Chromebook sales overtake Macs for the first time
- Uber tests driverless cars
- Missing patches leave Android at risk from Qualcomm flaw
- Sorry, Apple: Chromebooks outselling Macs
- SAP focuses hundreds of staff on customer cloud renewals
- Forbes' 30 Under 30 Asia summit highlights success of millennials in tech
- Bots presenting a substantial risk to banks and retailers
- Pavlok electric shock wristband could be security risk
May 19
- Are we really better off as part of the EU?
- Fitbit steps up its game with mobile payments acquisition
- SAP has not listened to users, says CEO, as he renews focus on customers
- Google Allo and Duo to take on WhatsApp with AI
- 117m LinkedIn account details for sale
- Nokia launching Android phone business under HMD Global
- Ingram Micro boosts services business with Comms-care acquisition
May 18
- Google I/O 2016: company unveils 'Google Home' smart assistant
- Microsoft and HPE come out against Brexit
- Mozilla’s bid for Tor hack used in child porn case rejected
- Searching for pirate copies of Game of Thrones could lead to malware infection
- Urban driving is next big challenge for autonomous cars
- Hacking forum Nulled.io breached, member information dumped
- Riverbed SteelCentral now supports Azure and AWS
- London and Bristol take Smart Cities crown
May 17
- Lenovo K5 hands-on – Lenovo smartphones arrive in the UK
- Moto G4 Plus hands-on – even bigger and now you can pay for a better camera
- SAP lets users run HANA cloud on Azure, tightens integration with Office 365
- Google announces new carpool service using Waze
- iOS gets full Google Cardboard support
- IBM introduces an entry level IoT course
- Tribunal will not automatically listen to unlawful spying claims
- Starbreeze and Acer partner up on virtual reality headset
May 16
- Google trimming support for Flash on Chrome browser
- Spammers selling fake tickets for Rio Olympics 2016
- GCHQ joins Twitter in drive for openness
- Ofcom vows to speed up Wi-Fi connections for everyone
May 13
- Google to change AI forever with open source 'Parsey McParseface'
- Kaseya targets MSP growth with latest software releases
- Donald Trump threatens to crush Amazon over its "antitrust problem"
- Digital transformation needs CFO and CIO alignment, finds Oracle
May 12
- Samsung Galaxy Note 6 tipped for mid-August release date
- Campaigners urge UK to adopt Digital Bill of Rights
- Data breaches 'have destroyed customers' trust in companies'
- Ad blocking 'will cost publishers £19 billion by 2020'
- Google outlaws ads from payday lenders
- Perez Hilton malware strikes millions of users
- RBS builds tech innovation centre on Red Hat
- Pre-Android 4.1 devices open to malware attack
- Why is everyone making such a fuss over Instagram's new icon?
May 11
- Slow broadband speeds impacting UK business productivity
- EU spikes Three’s £10.5 billion bid for O2, spelling the end for UK mobile mergers
- Panama Papers: Emma Watson named in leaked documents
- Children’s hospital uses IBM Watson app to improve healthcare
- Uber launches fleet of wheelchair-accessible cars in London
- A quarter of Windows devices open to hack
May 10
- Arrow exec Ellis jumps to Exclusive Group
- Opera free VPN for iOS will collect your data and ping you with ads
- Judge strikes down NCA attempt to grab Lauri Love's encryption keys
- Uber's former Silicon Valley tech campus, RocketSpace, seeks London start-ups
- Jurors in Oracle-Google copyright case told to tighten social media privacy settings
- Privacy International challenges Snooper's Charter blanket hacking warrants in High Court
- Google switches hyperlinks to black
- 794,000 Kiddicare customer details stolen in data breach
- Kaseya turnaround focuses on customer relationships
May 9
- Rural areas in the UK may have to request broadband services
- NHS hit with £180,000 fine for HIV patients data breach
- Equifax 'suffers data breach, losing 431,000 workers' details'
- Will Facebook soon be exempt from the Great Firewall of China?
- Twitter blocks US intelligence agencies from Dataminr alerts
- Two-thirds of UK firms suffered cyber attacks in the last year
May 6
- Android Qualcomm flaw lets hackers access your texts, call logs, and browsing histories
- Apple signals B2B push, letting developers build SAP-powered iPhone and iPad apps
- Google has been reading romance novels to its AI
- Facebook fails to throw out photo-tagging privacy lawsuit
- Businesses must pay greater attention to third-party risk
- Craig Wright fails to prove he's Bitcoin creator
May 5
- Basho open sources its database for the Internet of Things
- US tech players tell Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to focus on encryption
- Two laptops are lost on the tube every day, says TfL
- Siri's creators are set to launch a new app-less AI assistant, Viv
- BT invests £6 billion to bring UK broadband to 10 million homes
- Now TV picks MongoDB to cope with Game of Thrones streaming traffic
- Hacker sells 272 million Google, Yahoo and Hotmail email accounts online
- GDPR gets a deadline: 25 May 2018
May 4
- Huawei introduces new partner incentives
- ‘Ignorant’ NHS trust fined £185,000 for leaking thousands of staff details online
- Zuckerberg celebrates lifting of Brazilian WhatsApp ban
- Facebook gives $10,000 to 10-year-old boy who found Instagram comments bug
- Upcoming SQL Server 2016 will better integrate with Microsoft Azure
May 3
- Barclays.net still trying to catch up after outage
- Google's DeepMind can read 1.6 million NHS patients' records
- Stop worrying about Apple, says CEO Tim Cook
- Marissa Mayer will receive £40m payout if Yahoo tanks
May 2
- EMC reveals quest to modernise the datacentre at EMC World 2016
- New Dell/EMC name revealed at EMC World 2016
- The Rock just released an alarm clock that won't let you go back to bed