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by Samuel Gibbs on (#17TSF)
Revamped iPhone 5S brings company’s smallest phone up to par with 2015’s iPhone 6S, while catering for those who want a smaller phone
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by Associated Press on (#17VAA)
The divorce is amicable and the pair agreed Riley would file the petition to end their latest marriage after roughly two yearsBillionaire Elon Musk and actor Talulah Riley are making another attempt to end their second marriage.Riley filed to divorce Musk on Monday in Los Angeles superior court. Musk filed for divorce on New Year’s Eve in 2014 but withdrew the petition seven months later. Continue reading...
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by Guardian Staff on (#17V7B)
Apple chief executive Tim Cooke and vice-president Greg Joswiak unveiled the new iPhone SE on Monday. It will be the smallest smartphone in Apple’s current lineup and the first smartphone with a screen smaller than 4.7in since the iPhone 6 was released in September 2014 Continue reading...
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by Alex Hern and Jemima Kiss on (#17TMH)
At an event at its Cupertino headquarters, Apple announced the smaller iPhone SE, the new 9.7in iPad Pro and iOS 9.3
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by Samuel Gibbs on (#17TVM)
New smaller ‘professional’ tablet brings stylus and Smart Connector features to a more manageable size 9.7in screen
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by Rebecca Smithers on (#17TCF)
Increases that will come into effect from 1 June will see most customers paying between £1 and £4.25 more a monthSky is putting up the prices of its TV packages by an average of between £2 and £3 a month from 1 June.The TV giant has revealed new prices for both upgrades and its TV deals, with increases ranging between £1 and £4.25 per month. Continue reading...
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by Alex Hern on (#17T90)
The flaw, which will be fixed by iOS 9.3, allows the encryption key used by the messaging service to be guessed by a determined attackerResearchers at Johns Hopkins University have cracked the encryption on Apple’s iMessage service, proving that a skilled attacker is capable of reading messages sent between iPads, iPhones and Macs despite the security measures protecting the devices.The attack relies on a flaw in iMessage which will be fixed in iOS 9.3, released today. But until the software update is released, and the companion update for Mac OS, users’ messages are vulnerable to eavesdropping from a determined attacker. Continue reading...
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by Keith Stuart on (#17T7E)
Game developers say Sony is readying a new version of PlayStation 4 with 4K compatibility and more processing power. If it’s true, is it a good idea?On Friday afternoon, video game news site Kotaku dropped a fascinating story. Sony is rumoured to be working on an upgraded version of PlayStation 4 complete with support for the emerging 4K resolution, and more processing power to cope with the demands of virtual reality.Kotaku cited unnamed developers as the source of its report, and claims to have overheard discussions between programmers about the new “PlayStation 4.5†during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week (where the hardware was allegedly being revealed in closed demos to key studios). It’s not clear whether the new format is an upgrade that attaches to the existing PS4 or a completely new replacement, but Sony has, of course, said that it won’t comment on rumours and speculation. Continue reading...
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by Elena Cresci on (#17SX4)
It’s Twitter’s 10th birthday, so here are some of the ways it has changed our lives – for better and worseTen years ago today, the co-founder and CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey sent a message which kickstarted Twitter:just setting up my twttr Continue reading...
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by John Plunkett on (#17SW5)
Writer and broadcaster, who recently repeated criticism of BBC local radio strategy, is looking for partnersWriter and broadcaster Danny Baker is looking to crowdfund the launch of his own radio station.
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by Malkia Cyril in Oakland, California on (#17SFH)
The child of a Black Panther, Malkia Cyril grew up under the threat of surveillance and says encryption is critical for human rightsWhen the FBI branded Martin Luther King Jr a “dangerous†threat to national security and began tapping his phones, it was part of a long history of spying on black activists in the United States. But the government surveillance of black bodies has never been limited to activists – in fact, according to the FBI; you only had to be black.
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by Alex Hern on (#17SEG)
Older Kindles need a software update before Tuesday or they will lose connectivityIf you have a Kindle made before 2012, now is the time to dig it out of wherever it’s stashed: if the software isn’t updated before Tuesday 22 March, you’ll be unable to take it online.That means no syncing read states, no accessing the Kindle store and no buying new books – unless you remember to install the latest update. Kindles download and install updates automatically if they’re connected to Wi-Fi, but if yours is lying unplugged somewhere, it has likely disconnected. Continue reading...
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by Dan Tynan on (#17SAM)
An open letter to Twitter on its 10th anniversary – a decade of being captivated, horrified and entertained in 140 charactersDear Twitter,I have to admit that it was not love at first sight when we first met a decade ago. Frankly, I couldn’t figure out what you were about. You were like some nerd hippie who only spoke in Zen koans. Intriguing? Sure, for maybe 15 minutes. I didn’t stick around.
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by Matt Kamen on (#17RVC)
New York is convincingly terrorised in a biological attack, Pokémon meets Tekken in the arena, and it’s not all swords and samurais in feudal Japan Continue reading...
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by Pamela Duncan on (#17RV9)
Safety and shipping review identifies developments that will be causing sector headaches for years to comePiracy, cybercrime and the potential salvage challenges posed by “mega ships†are listed among risks facing the shipping industry in an Allianz report on safety in the sector.The 2016 Safety and Shipping review points to the potential risk of pirates using cybercrime to target vessels and warns that the industry needs to protect itself against this threat.
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by Stuart Dredge on (#17RVB)
Mark Zuckerberg’s social network has worked hard to fend off scammers, but they keep on coming with the hope of defrauding some of its 1.5bn usersNo, you can’t win tickets for Radio 1’s Big Weekend festival by liking a Facebook page. It’s not true that there are free business-class flights being given away by Qantas Air. And no, TV show Total Wipeout isn’t bringing a tour to your local city. But all three are recent examples of convincing scams on Facebook where fraudsters pretending to be trusted brands have mocked up pages in search of likes, comments, shares and more from unwitting users.These scams are a sign of how Facebook is a magnet for cybercriminals who see its nearly 1.6 billion monthly active users as 1.6 billion tempting targets. Facebook scams are the most common online attack method, according to the 2016 edition of technology firm Cisco’s Annual Security Report, with 33,681,000 examples identified by the company’s researchers – just ahead of JavaScript attacks in its malware chart. Continue reading...
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by Mariella Frostrup on (#17PJS)
A woman thinks her partner’s online activities are preventing him from being intimate in real life. Mariella Frostrup says he needs to realise sex isn’t a spectator sportThe dilemma My boyfriend has something of a sex addiction. He follows porn accounts on Instagram and Twitter; he has it on his phone and searches for it on nights I’m not about. It’s never bothered me, because I also have an interest in it, but not to that extent.A while ago he started texting another girl inappropriately. When I caught him, he said he didn’t mean anything by it, that it was just words. Afterwards we weren’t as intimate, but his addiction calmed dramatically. Continue reading...
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by Martin Love on (#17P1G)
The DS 4, a new premium crossover, is not only over-priced and under-designed, it’s unworthy of its heritagePrice: £23,495
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by Pete Etchells on (#17KSM)
Do the puzzles, say the purveyors of pricey brain training apps, and you’ll boost memory and concentration. Researchers have put their claims to the testEverything you do changes your brain. Even reading this article. Right now, wherever you are, looking at these words is shaping and modifying the connections between neurons inside your head. It seems like a scary thought, but this process – known as neuroplasticity – is fundamental to our ability to learn new skills, keep hold of old ones, and form new memories.Imagine, then, if we could take control of that process. If we could target specific types of skills and cognitive processes, then we could teach our brains to be better at, well, anything. Continue reading...
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by Nicola Davis on (#17KKS)
Many VR side-effects are believed to be temporary and leave no lasting damage, but there have been few long-term studies into use of the technologyVirtual reality might be marching into the mainstream, but questions remain about its long-term effects, scientists say.
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by Guardian Staff on (#17KKV)
I need email, internet and a few useful apps – which phone should I buy?Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
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by Alex Hern on (#17KGX)
Sony, Oculus and HTC should all settle in for the long haul – having the first launch or selling cheapest at Christmas won’t be enough to win the warSometimes it seems like thebattle to be the must-have Christmas gift starts earlier every year. On Tuesday, 2016’s battle began in earnest, with the announcement of Sony’s virtual reality headset, the PlayStation VR.The headset, which will cost £350 on its launch in October, is the third such device to be revealed in last few months. It will launch to stiff competition from Facebook-owned VR firm Oculus and Taiwanese hardware firm HTC, each of which are bringing their own versions to the market in the coming weeks. Continue reading...
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by Helen Pidd on (#17KGY)
Front suspension, large wheels and a wide range of gears help Helen Pidd survive a demanding mountain bike trailI belong to two cycling clubs. One is women-only and the other is all-male except me. Team Glow prides itself on female empowerment, encouraging women to achieve more than they ever thought possible: whether riding 112 miles of the Fred Whitton or slogging up the 23% gradient of Mow Cop in Cheshire without putting a foot down. From easy “A†rides, through Bs, Cs to dastardly Ds, women cheer you on all the way.It doesn’t work like that in Team Rioja. Zero allowances are made for new members’ weaknesses. “Stop mithering†is a favourite catchphrase of AK, a founder member. He once claimed he couldn’t physically pedal as slowly as me on some climbs. Continue reading...
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by Reuters on (#17KAR)
The passenger jet was close to landing when a drone flew 200ft overhead, fuelling concerns about the safety of the craftThe pilot of a Lufthansa passenger jumbo jet has reported that a drone aircraft nearly collided with his airliner on its landing approach to Los Angeles, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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by Nicky Woolf on (#17JY9)
In an appearance on the Today show, Jack Dorsey put to bed rumors that the site might extend tweets to a 10,000 character limitTwitter’s much-loved 140-character limit is “staying.â€That’s what Jack Dorsey, one of the company’s founders and its newly-reinstated CEO said in an appearance on the Today show on Friday. Continue reading...
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by Sarah Butler on (#17HKG)
Chris North’s departure comes just as Amazon accelerates its plans to enter the grocery market in the UKAmazon’s UK boss Chris North has quit the company to join US online photo gift retailer Shutterfly.North’s departure comes just as Amazon accelerates its plans to enter the grocery market in the UK. The US company recently revealed a deal to sell fresh, chilled and frozen food made by Morrisons, the Bradford-based supermarket chain, after it began selling frozen items via its Prime Now service in London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester and Liverpool. Continue reading...
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by Adrian Searle on (#17HE8)
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by Associated Press in Beijing on (#17GYN)
Facebook founder posts picture of himself running in Tiananmen Square when air pollution was 15 times safe levelA photograph of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg jogging through the smog in downtown Beijing has prompted a torrent of comments – not all of them flattering – on Chinese social media.Zuckerberg, who is in the Chinese capital for an economic forum, posted the photo of himself and five others running through Tiananmen Square on Friday, with the gate to the Forbidden City imperial palace in the background. Continue reading...
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by Alex Hern on (#17GM9)
Firm failed to integrate with the wider Google workforce, and its ‘terrifying’ robots sparked concern about negative pressGoogle is looking to sell robotics firm Boston Dynamics after concluding that it’s unlikely to produce any marketable robot in the next few years, according to people familiar with the company who spoke to Bloomberg News.Boston Dynamics has become famous for its impressive (and impressively creepy) videos featuring it torturing its robotic creations with pushes, kicks, shoves and heavy weights, to demonstrate their versatility and reliability. Continue reading...
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by Samuel Gibbs on (#17GKH)
Court-ordered release of Lavabit case files finally reveals Snowden was target of action that shuttered secure and private email serviceA redaction oversight by the US government has finally confirmed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s targeting of secure email service Lavabit was used specifically to spy on Edward Snowden.
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by HAL 90210 on (#17GCY)
From TV spoilers and Deep Drumpf to Kanye West and badly drawn penises, here’s the future of the social network as it enters double figures“Just setting up my twttrâ€: Jack Dorsey posted the first ever tweet on 21 March 2006, when Twitter was still a vowel-less side project of podcasting firm Odeo. The decade since then has been a riot of hashtags, feuds, breaking news, white and gold black and blue dresses, spoilers, one-liners, furious men’s rights activists, political movements, tweetstorms and celebrity bottoms.What might the next decade hold in store? Here are some confident predictions for the next 10 years of Everyone’s Favourite Social App That Isn’t Facebook, or WhatsApp, or Facebook Messenger, or Instagram or Snapchat. Continue reading...
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by Rich Stanton and Will Freeman on (#17GD0)
From the darkest corners of gaming history, here are the shooters, platformers and beat-’em-ups that took no prisonersGames used to be harder. That’s the lament veteran players now mutter whenever encountering some modern shoot-’em-up or action adventure. It sounds like the same sort of nostalgic elitism that music snobs indulge in, criticising current bands for lacking the legendary quality of yesterday’s heroes. But with games, it’s kind of true.
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by Guardian Staff on (#17G5W)
The place to talk about games and other things that matterYay, it’s Friday. You can start the Daredevil season two splurge tonight! Continue reading...
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by Luke Buckmaster on (#17FTF)
Australian virtual reality artist for Sundance’s New Frontiers Institute set out to break all the rules for her milestone production, CollisionsStanding alone in the Pilbara desert, dusty and desolate sun-scorched land stretches out in every direction. Occasional kangaroos are the only signs of life in a vast, brown, natural nothingness.But the peace is about to be shattered. An atomic bomb explodes somewhere in the distance, creating a monstrous mushroom cloud that rises into the sky as ash falls from above, showering me like rain. Continue reading...
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by Paul Karp on (#17FNN)
Federal parliamentary press gallery demands explanation after Buzzfeed journalist’s phone was seized and searched during Senate question timeThe federal parliamentary press gallery has said the search and seizure of a journalist’s phone in Senate question time was an “unconscionable and unacceptable transgression of press freedomâ€.The press gallery president, Fairfax photographer Andrew Meares, has written to the president of the Senate, Stephen Parry, asking him to investigate the encounter, in which the phone of a BuzzFeed journalist, Alice Workman, was searched after she tweeted about Labor senator Stephen Conroy playing Candy Crush in the chamber. Continue reading...
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by Danny Yadron in San Francisco on (#17EVT)
CEO gives on-the-record answers to Time magazine about company’s encryption battle with government and what could be a problem going forwardApple’s chief executive Tim Cook has taken to national TV, Capitol Hill and his company’s shareholders’ meeting to try to persuade consumers that the iPhone maker is right in its privacy standoff with the US government.
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by Nellie Bowles in San Francisco on (#17ER5)
On Wednesday, when Bay Area Rapid Transit was experiencing yet another set of delays, @SFBART became active on Twitter – and alarmingly honestSan Francisco’s public transportation system, Bart, is an overcrowded, broken escalator-filled mess. No one ever argues otherwise.Now, not even Bart. Continue reading...
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by Dominic Rushe on (#17E00)
Apple CEO dismisses FBI’s argument that only one iPhone will be affected by case of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook: ‘It puts millions of people at risk’The FBI’s claims that its powers of surveillance have “gone dark†are a “crockâ€, Apple boss Tim Cook has told Time magazine.Cook is currently embroiled in an escalating war of words with the US authorities over Apple’s refusal to break into the iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook. Continue reading...
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by Amber Jamieson on (#17DY0)
The Swedish inventor, called ‘the queen of shitty robots’, has attracted thousands of followers with her quirky contraptions for eating cereal or applying lipstickKnown as “the queen of shitty robotsâ€, Swedish inventor Simone Giertz builds robots to help with everyday activities – except, they don’t work. Well, mechanically they work beautifully, but her robots show we’ve got a while to go before every part of our life is automated.The 25-year-old lives on a houseboat in Stockholm and runs a highly successful YouTube channel with 124,000 subscribers, where she posts videos of her surreal and hilarious contraptions, such as robots to feed her cereal, put on her lipstick and chop vegetables. Continue reading...
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by Nellie Bowles on (#17D6E)
Instagram’s decision to follow in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook and change to an algorithmic feed was a wake up call: I’m the product, not the ownerRelated: Instagram to roll out algorithm that will display photos out of orderAs a good San Franciscan millennial, my first reaction was to call a therapist.
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by Rob Davies on (#17D3N)
Man receives surprise message purporting to be from Mark Carney offering multimillion-dollar sumAnyone who has opened a text purporting to be from Bank of England governor Mark Carney about $6.5m they never knew they had should hold off before popping the champagne corks.In what appears to be one of the more ambitious attempts at online fraud, Twitter user @JasonZubris has been getting messages purporting to be from the man in charge of the UK’s monetary policy.
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by Samuel Gibbs on (#17D1P)
Broadcaster is one of first big traditional TV names to enter market and will produce content including Formula One filmsSky has become one of the first big-name broadcaster to put its weight behind new virtual reality technologies with a dedicated in-house team.
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by Stuart Dredge on (#17CHH)
MSQRD, Face Swap Live, Snapchat and other apps fuelling the latest social craze – including one invented by Yahoo back in 2013Will 2016 go down in history as the year we failed to heed the warning about artificial intelligence overthrowing humanity one stone at a time, because we were distracted by swapping faces with our friends, our pets or nearby breasts?Perhaps. Face-swapping apps aren’t actually new – several have been around since 2013 – but they have become this year’s mobile craze, in a lineage that includes Draw Something, Dubsmash, Flappy Bird, FatBooth and (in the earliest days of Apple’s App Store) virtual pint-drinking and lightsaber apps. Continue reading...
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by Jack Schofield on (#17CGQ)
Jean wants to delete her Facebook account, as does Alban, but he can’t remember his email address or password. Suzette also wants to delete her Facebook account so she can start again with a new oneI deleted the Facebook app on my phone. However, friends can still see my page. I want everything permanently deleted. How can I do this? JeanFacebook is a website, and all the data for your page is stored on various Facebook servers in giant data centres. It is not stored on your PC or on your phone: they are just ways to access it online. Continue reading...
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by Simon Bowers on (#17AVC)
Chancellor estimates measure will recoup £875m in lost receipts over four years, but campaigners say it doesn’t go far enoughMeasures targeted at an army of overseas sellers using Amazon and eBay to evade VAT were at the heart of a £12bn tax clampdown announced by the chancellor.A host of other tax avoidance strategies were also in George Osborne’s sights. They ranged from schemes that disguised an individual’s earnings as loans, to businesses taking on commercially unnecessary borrowings to lower their tax bills.
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by Ewen MacAskill Defence correspondent on (#17AQW)
Drone aircraft and underwater systems to be given ‘realistic workout’ in UK-led Nato Joint Warriors exercise off Scottish coastThe Ministry of Defence is organising its first-ever “Robo-Wars†exercise this autumn, using drones, seacraft and a host of other innovations as part of the growing trend towards reducing the role of humans in combat.The large-scale event off the west coast of Scotland will form part of the regular UK-led Nato Joint Warriors exercise. Continue reading...
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by Simon Bowers on (#17A3Y)
Chancellor George Osborne gives tax inspectors new powers to warn overseas sellers active in UKAmazon and eBay are to be held liable, in some cases, for VAT fraud committed by a growing army of overseas sellers using their websites – and costing Britain hundreds of millions of pounds a year in lost tax receipts.
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by Andrew Pulver on (#17A0W)
A patent application made by Ford for an ‘autonomous vehicle entertainment system’ includes a projector and a drop-down screenDriverless cars may not be quite ready for the road, but leading car manufacturer Ford is already preparing to give you things to do when you no longer have your hands at the wheel. According to a patent application filed on 1 March, Ford is developing an “autonomous vehicle entertainment systemâ€.According to the background information section of the application, “instead of concentrating on numerous driving-related responsibilities, the driver may be free to watch moviesâ€, with a “projection screen ... located ... near the windshieldâ€. Continue reading...
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by Alex Hern on (#179RH)
Property and trading income will be included in the tax-free allowance for individuals from April 2017, the Chancellor has announcedOnline merchants and short-term landlords were given a gift in the budget, with two new £1,000 tax-free allowances offered on income from those sources.Intended to boost the number of “micro-entrepreneurs†who make small amounts of money online, the tax breaks were introduced by the chancellor, George Osborne, with specific reference to the online marketplace eBay and the short-term lettings site Airbnb. Continue reading...
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by Jasper Jackson on (#179QQ)
Publisher pages are ‘bloated’, says report by Enders Analysis that finds 18% to 79% of data downloaded on mobiles is from adsAdvertising could account for about half of data usage for people reading articles on their smartphones, according to a study by Enders Analysis.The small-scale study looked at six unnamed “popular publishersâ€, both with and without an adblocker, and found that anywhere between 18% and 79% of the data downloaded was from ads. Continue reading...
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