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Tesla Driver Charged For Sleeping As Car Drove At 90mph

Unbelievable! Driver in Canada charged with dangerous driving, after he slept in fully reclined seat as his Tesla car drove at 90mph

Tesla Wins Case Against Former Staffer Who Stole Data

Patient Dies In Germany After Hospital Ransomware Attack

ByteDance Majority Stake Puts Oracle-TikTok Deal At Risk – Report

Nintendo Shuts the Lid On 3DS

Nearly a decade after it first launched, Japanese gaming giant Nintendo discontinues its popular 3DS handheld gaming device

Aussie Regulator Refuses To Back Down After Facebook News Warning

Blunt warning from Facebook about blocking news sharing down under, receives equally blunt response from antitrust officials

Academic Sector Warned Of Cyber Threat By NCSC

Universities and schools are being warned by UK’s cyber guardian of threats posed to their institutions after a spate of online attacks

Apple iOS 14 ‘Reimagines’ iPhone Experience, But Developers Unhappy

Major update to iPhone user experience begins rolling out to customers on Wednesday, but developers unhappy at short notice

Facebook Celebrity Boycott Joined By Kim Kardashian West

Kardashian joins Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and others in celebrity boycott of Facebook’s Instagram on Wednesday

Apple Responds After Spotify Criticises Apple One

Spotify condemns Apple One as anti-competitive behaviour, but Apple insists its subscription service can save customers money

Uber Safety Driver Charged With Homicide Over Fatal Crash

Backup safety driver involved in autonomous driving test in Arizona that killed a pedestrian is charged with negligent homicide

Apple One Subscription Bundle, Fitness+ Service Launched

Apple continues its move into the services segment with a bundled subscription package called Apple One, plus the Fitness+ virtual fitness service

Apple Unveils Watch 6 And New iPads

Apple launches new Watch Series 6 that measures blood oxygen levels to help in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as new iPad models

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White House Reviewing Oracle TikTok Deal

Trump administration says it is reviewing TikTok’s ‘technology partner’ deal with Oracle, and its Trump supporter Larry Ellison

Facebook Acquires More Office Space, Despite Remote Working Plan

Social networking platform acquires more office space in Washington, despite allowing staff to work from home until July 2021

European Court Backs EU Net Neutrality Rules

The top court in Europe, the CJEU, has officially backed the European Union’s net neutrality laws that were enacted back in 2015

Microsoft Raises Orkney Undersea Data Centre

Up she rises! Microsoft’s moonshot project to build more environmentally sustainable data centres under the ocean is deemed successful

Google Achieves Carbon Neutral Footprint

Alphabet division becomes first major company to reach carbon neutrality, and is also world’s largest corporate buyer of renewable energy

Visualizing Data: How Data Insights Could Be About To Change

Gartner recently noted a shift away from data dashboard. Is this a trend that will continue? As businesses collect vast quantities of information from their customers and commercial partners, how can this data be visualized for insights? Is the data dashboard now not fit for purpose.