Latest articles by Nicole Kobie
Facebook exec calls Cambridge Analytica scandal a "non event"
News Andrew Bosworth has popped up with another controversial internal memo, this time looking back at media criticism in 2019
Google adds partners to real-time translation tools
News Systems integrators will help hotels, airports and more use Google Assistant for real-time translation
Ofcom tweaks broadband rules to "supercharge" fibre
News Regulator wants to speed up fibre rollout while encouraging broadband competition
Samsung's "artificial humans" are avatars for chatbots
News Samsung's Star Labs show off Neon avatars for virtual and voice interfaces
Intel shows off Tiger Lake, bending laptops at CES
News Intel reveals a few more details about its design road map, including what next-gen laptops may look like
HP awarded $439m in long-running price-fixing case
News Quanta told to pay HP for optical drive price fixing
London Stock Exchange outage investigated as possible cyber attack
News LSE maintains August downtime was the result of a software glitch
HP Elite Dragonfly boasts built-in Tile tracker and 5G support
News CES 2020 reveals two-in-one business laptop with a tracking device so you can't lose it
Virtual reality is dead. Long live VR
In-depth Samsung, Google and the BBC have all dropped smartphone-based VR headset projects. Can the technology survive?
US pushes for homegrown 5G to solve Huawei woes
News Report suggests Pentagon wants US companies to create an open-source version of 5G
Twitter issues emergency security patch for Android
News Android users told to update app after discovery of serious vulnerability
EE joins TfL trial of 4G on the Underground
News EE joins O2 in trial to offer mobile services on part of the Jubilee Line in London from March 2020
Google is getting worse as it does more
Opinion Search is Google’s heart, but the algorithms that run it are clearly struggling to keep up with the web
EU-US data transfer tools used by Facebook ruled legal
News Seven-year legal battle set to end after EU adviser decides standard contractual clauses are adequate
Avast and AVG extensions pulled from Chrome
News Avast and AVG once again criticised for excessive data collection in security and shopping browser extensions
Amazon, Apple and Google join forces on voice for smart homes
News Voice assistants from rivals will work across smart home devices thanks to working group from Zigbee Alliance
Mac Pro a "masterclass in repairability"
News Apple's latest desktop computer has won praise from iFixit for how easy it is to repair
Facebook apps dominated this decade's mobile market
News App Annie stats reveal Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp were the most downloaded apps of the past decade
Google Cloud gains fresh security partners and tools
News McAfee among new additions to partnerships that help secure Google Cloud
Intel spends $2bn on Habana Labs in AI data centre push
News Chip maker continues its focus on AI acquisitions with purchase of Israeli Habana Labs
Microsoft, Apple and more accused of benefiting from child labour
News International Rights Advocates say tech giants are aiding the use of child labour in DRC to mine cobalt
Open-source rivals considered suing Amazon over "strip mining"
News The battle between Elastic and AWS reveals a wider concern about Amazon's impact on the open-source software industry
Chrome updates on Android paused after discovery of data-eating bug
News App developers complain of deleted data while using Chrome 79
