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February 28
- Half of UK councils use body cams to spy on litterers
- BlackBerry KeyOne hands on: the best BlackBerry phone since the Priv
- IoT CloudPet toys hacked, possibly leaking voice messages
- Spending on VR and AR to double this year
- Mozilla picks Pocket for web recommendations
February 27
- Mind your cuppa: Barcelona has 22,000 smart kettles at risk of hacking
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 hands-on: Up close and personal with Samsung’s iPad Pro 9.7in rival
- Tech City gets a few more visas for startups
- LG G6 hands-on: LG goes super-widescreen with latest flagship
- UK Cloud Awards reveals 2017 shortlist
- Samsung Galaxy Book hands-on: Samsung goes head-to-head with Microsoft’s Surface
February 24
- Draft 5G specs revealed
- Machine learning news: Google tackles toxic comments with machine learning
- Ad blocking holds fast at 22% of Brits
- Google shatters SHA-1 prompting calls to pull it from use
- Google to combat online toxicity with AI
- Big Data news: University of Texas pulls plug on IBM Big Data project
- Cloudflare bug leaks personal info from 120,000 sites
- Households deserve minimum 30Mbps broadband, votes House of Lords
February 23
- HP Inc records best PC sales growth since XP refresh
- Apple 'spaceship' campus gets official name and launch date
- Stryker develops operating theatre of the future with HoloLens
- Microsoft issues Flash update to patch remote code execution
February 22
- Chrome malware masquerades as 'missing font' files
- LG teases IP67 waterproofing in new videos
- Apple stock price hits record high
- Verizon knocks $350m off Yahoo deal
February 21
- Google and Microsoft agree to crack down on piracy
February 20
- Kim Dotcom faces US extradition
- Robot workers should pay their fair share in tax, says Bill Gates
- Why business intelligence will be worth $18.3 billion in 2017
February 17
- Microsoft Surface Book specs, price and release date: Microsoft tries to sweeten Brexit price hike with freebies
- Mark Zuckerberg writes manifesto on the future of Facebook
- Google's "Really Blue" Pixel is heading to the UK
February 16
- Eric Schmidt was "completely wrong" about AI
- Elon Musk tweets and deletes anti-travel ban Twitter messages
- Gartner: BlackBerry's market share hits rock bottom
- Google CEO responds to child's adorable job application
- Banks offer £5m to fintech firms developing SMB apps
- Ransomware in reality: people pay
February 15
- How can nation states win the unfolding cyberwar?
- Technology gender gap widens in the North
- Police IT candidate gets arrested after job interview
- Elon Musk: Humans must merge with AI to survive
- IoT poses complex security questions for business
- Why complex security plans mar business-IT relationship
- C-suite and IT must collaborate for safer businesses
February 14
- The Queen formally opens National Cyber Security Centre
- Twitter reverses decision on anti-bullying tool
- Chime is Amazon's answer to Skype for Business
- Russian hackers 'are behind 75% of crypto ransomware'
February 13
- HP and Bromium isolate unsecure browser tabs
- IBM unleashes Watson on cybercriminals
- UK hit 'by almost 200 Russian cyber attacks' in three months
- Fake news 'is killing our minds', says Tim Cook
- WhatsApp tightens security with two-step verification
February 10
- Migrate your SharePoint workloads to the cloud with AvePoint
- Microsoft HoloLens hands-on: Is it enterprise-ready?
- IT spending to hit $2.4 trillion in 2017
- Tim Cook on Brexit: it'll be fine
- Kaspersky unveils operating system for embedded systems and IoT devices
- Nokia acquires Comptel to leverage software business
February 9
- GDS prioritises data and digital skills in new strategy
- Sports Direct 'hack puts staff details in the wild'
- What is flexible working?
February 8
- Alexa troubleshoots your IT issues
February 7
- Vizio fined $2.2m for snooping on smart TV viewers
- Slack and Tesla join tech firms fighting Trump's travel ban
- Hacker takes over 150,000 buggy printers
- BlackBerry signs another smartphone licensing deal
February 6
- Brexit: Adobe Creative Cloud hikes prices up 11%
- Public sector automation 'would kill off 250,000 jobs'
- Google ordered to hand over foreign emails
- Apple to start iPhone production in India
February 3
- Cyber security news: Russian hacking takes aim at Europe
- What will the office of the future really look like?
- Uber CEO ditches Trump council, Musk stays on
- Mozilla finally kills off Firefox OS
- Fortinet's firewall boosts security for IoT enterprises
February 2
- HPE splashes the cash on security firm Niara
- 2.5m Xbox and PlayStation forum logins stolen
February 1
- Microsoft HoloLens not a toy until price point falls below $1,000
- Slack Enterprise Grid should make user management easier
- EU agrees "last piece of puzzle" on free roaming
- Three battles digital divide with free mobile scheme
- Apple posts record iPhone sales, 'great progress' in enterprise
- Cerber dominates ransomware attacks against businesses
- Twitter admits it "didn't move fast enough" to fight abuse
- How teachers brought Minecraft into classrooms
- Cisco: Data breaches now cost 20% of revenue