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April 28
- The Digital Economy Bill is now law
- Microsoft hardware plummets despite cloud gains
April 27
- Specsavers brings in Fujitsu on its digital transformation journey
- Companies still fail security basics, as ransomware rises
- MP: Facebook must step up fake news fight before UK election
- Two million Android devices 'hit by Google Play malware'
- TalkTalk hack: Two men plead guilty to TalkTalk hack
April 26
- Uber aims to demonstrate its flying cars in 2020
- Royal Society: UK must support machine learning sector
- Google will bury fake news in its search results
April 25
- Office of the future needs tools and cultural change
- Lauri Love wins right to appeal extradition order
- Wearables: First Windows 10 smartwatch is on its way, and it means business
- ABB and IBM to integrate Watson AI into industrial machinery
- LinkedIn hits 500 million members
- Jimmy Wales launches Wikipedia-style news site to fight fake news
- Ex-Lyft driver claims Uber's Hell project violated privacy laws
- Cardiff University will host a cyber security centre of excellence
- Unroll.me exec “heartbroken” as users find out their data was sold to Uber
April 24
- Microsoft will block some on-premise access to Office 365
- Why CEOs are in-sourcing digital transformation
- Are parents more addicted to smartphones than their children?
- Three "network issue" hits customers over the weekend
- How Uber almost got 'banned from Apple's App Store'
- Government promises £93m funding for AI over next four years
April 21
- Elon Musk to become CEO of Neuralink
- Ambient light sensors can steal sensitive browser data
- Why young hackers turn to crime (it's not for money)
- Infosec firm boss admits to accessing hospital network in sales demo
- Geofilters patent buy reveals how Snap plans to make money
- Cardinal RAT went unnoticed for two years
- Windows 10 on ARM devices will arrive at the end of the year
- Uber license fees may surge in London
- Microsoft ditches its productivity tool, Wunderlist
- Google Chrome 'might introduce an ad-blocker'
April 20
- Most open source software has security vulnerabilities
- Mastercard makes a credit card with a built-in fingerprint sensor
- IoT news: Haijme and Mirai botnets engaged in battle over IoT
- Facebook wants to read your mind
- London's tech startups attract over £1 billion despite Brexit vote
- Amazon opens up Alexa chatbot tools to developers
- Uber wins the right to appeal ruling on UK drivers' rights
April 19
- Uber driver imprisoned for two days in Argentina
- Verizon Yahoo acquisition expected to close in June
- Facebook bets on AR & VR tech for future growth
- EU public consultation to address fears over AI
- Intercontinental Hotels Group confirms second credit card breach
April 18
- Lloyds says Hello to Windows biometrics
- Prime Minister Theresa May calls snap general election
- Shadow Brokers: Microsoft Windows flaws were already patched
- 25% of UK businesses lack basic hacking safeguards
- Intel shelves its Developer Forum after 20 years
- Facebook cracks down on "financially motivated" fake news
- Apple, Google, Facebook will still dominate in 2075, says Wozniak
April 13
- Apple 'has secret team working on diabetes management tech'
- Chrome web pages load 10-20% faster than last year
- Education looks set to be focus of Microsoft May event
- Qualcomm loses patent arbitration case
- Hackers can remotely control Aga cookers with an SMS
April 12
- Mark Shuttleworth to resume Canonical CEO role this summer
- British Airways website outage delays check-in for passengers
- Foreign state DDoS attack 'may have crashed Brexit voting site'
- Vista: Finally, the end is nigh
- Microsoft Word zero-day flaw 'used to infect millions'
- Pure Storage reveals NVMe flash storage array
- How to use Apple Pay in the UK: Everything you need to know
April 11
- Ofcom must recalculate dark fibre access fees
- Canonical founder lays into “deeply anti-social” Mir-haters
- Toshiba's future in doubt as it reveals $5 billion losses
- Google pits its AI against another top Go player
April 10
- US may force travellers to unlock their devices
- Gartner predicts 1.4% IT spending growth in 2017
- Wonga hack: payday loan firm suffers massive data breach
- BrickerBot threatens to kill your IoT devices
- US backs down over unmasking anti-Trump Twitter account
April 7
- IBM offers Watson to run your IT helpdesk
- Ransomware attacks on businesses are spiking, says Kaspersky
- EU mobile roaming charges to be dropped in June
- Spotify 'might ditch an IPO in favour of direct listing'
- Google and Facebook reveal tools to battle fake news
- Outsourced companies lack skills to tackle failures, Deloitte said
- Volkswagen and Delphi charge forward on driverless cars
April 6
- Ubuntu to drop Unity, kills off smartphones and tablets convergence plans
- Facebook will block revenge porn
- Microsoft reveals what data Windows 10 is collecting
April 5
- How can advanced security help you mitigate security risks
- Is WhatsApp exploring digital payments?
- Oxbotica trials driverless shuttle in Greenwich
- Tim Berners-Lee calls UK and US anti-privacy legislation "appalling"
- Billionaire eBay founder commits $100m to combat fake news
April 4
- Hortonworks upgrades data platform
- Verizon forms Oath media division with Yahoo and AOL brands
- Android overtakes Windows as world's most popular operating system
- McAfee is reborn as McAfee as Intel sells part of its stake
- Ransomware afflicts 48% of UK enterprises
- Teradata IntelliFlex gets a big upgrade
- CA Technologies acquires Veracode to bolster DevOps security
April 3
- Microsoft shuts down CodePlex, commits to GitHub
- Government launches £80,000 Data Science Challenge
- Twitter ditches egg profile pictures to crack online abuse
- Google's tax bill was £36m last year