technology

Ocado is to invest £10m in driverless vehicle start-up Oxbotica and look at the potential for automated deliveries to customers (Ocadi/PA)

Ocado eyes driverless deliveries with £10m investment in start-up Oxbotica

April 16, 2021

Facebook has previously downplayed the problem (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Ireland’s online privacy watchdog to investigate Facebook over data breach

April 14, 2021

The DCMS Committee said its inquiry also hoped to assess the impact of influencers on media and popular culture (Yui Mok/PA)

MPs launch inquiry into power of social media influencers

March 26, 2021

Ofcom’s new hub is expected to be operational by the summer (Yui Mok/PA)

Ofcom to create tech hub and up to 150 new jobs in Manchester

March 26, 2021

The End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration is expected to start major demonstrations in around June or July (Astroscale/PA)

Space debris demonstration mission blasts off

March 22, 2021

The Police Commissioner suggested an app could be used to prove consent (Chris Radburn/PA)

Australian police commissioner suggests app to prove sexual consent

March 18, 2021

Traffic to BBC sites more than tripled, the study found (Joe Giddens/PA)

Internet use up 78% since first lockdown, broadband figures show

March 18, 2021

Sir Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web Consortium/PA)

Young people can help rebuild from Covid crisis, web inventor says

March 12, 2021

The Style Seeker app uses artificial intelligence technology to scan clothes and direct customers to similar products at stores within Hammerson shopping centres (PA)

Government sets out plans to modernise product safety laws

March 11, 2021

People are being warned to watch out for a new text message scam in which criminals pose as Royal Mail in an attempt to steal personal and financial details (Chris Radburn/PA)

Warning over Royal Mail text message scam

March 10, 2021

A new agri-tech hub is to be created (University of Edinburgh/PA)

New multimillion-pound agri-tech hub to be created

March 8, 2021

MPs on the DCMS Committee have branded the Government’s response to questions over its rollout of 5G and gigabit-capable broadband ‘inadequate’ (Ben Birchall/PA)

Government response to concerns on 5G and broadband targets inadequate, say MPs

March 5, 2021

WhatsApp said one-to-one calls would be encrypted on desktop (WhatsApp/PA)

WhatsApp adds desktop voice and video calling

March 4, 2021

Former Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger told the Lords he feels ‘highly independent’ (Ian West/PA)

Facebook staff ‘kicked out’ of meetings early on, says member of oversight board

March 2, 2021

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Stop social media giants allowing anonymous accounts, Victims’ Commissioner says

February 24, 2021

Sony is developing a new virtual reality system for the PlayStation 5 (Sony/PA)

New VR system coming to PlayStation 5, says Sony

February 23, 2021

Facebook removed news content from its platform in Australia last week (Niall Carson/PA)

Microsoft calls for Australia-style action forcing tech giants to pay for news

February 22, 2021

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Culture Secretary to meet Facebook executives over Australia news ban

February 22, 2021

This image made available by NASA shows an illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars.

Perseverance: How Dundee tech travelled 293 million miles through space to land on Mars

February 19, 2021

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Complex 40 in Florida (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP)

In Video: SpaceX launches internet satellites into orbit

February 16, 2021