Happy birthday to the PlayStation 5
Tom GerkenTechnology reporter Getty Images You used to be able to count the number of years between game consoles on one hand. The original Sony PlayStation came out in the…
Two popular gay dating platforms removed from app stores in China
Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter Getty Images Apple has confirmed that it has removed two of China’s most popular gay dating apps – Blued and Finka – from its app store in…
Man dances for 144 hours to break video game marathon record
Guinness World Records A Hungarian man has set a new record for longest video game marathon by playing the rhythm-based music game Dance Dance Revolution for six days. Szabolcs Csépe,…
Battle over Chinese chip maker rocks global car industry
Suranjana TewariAsia Business Correspondent Reuters In late September, the Dutch government invoked a Cold War-era emergency law to take control of a Chinese-owned chip company that has operations in the…
The Kenyan start-up aiming to electrify transport
Zipping around, amid the traffic of Kenya’s capital city Nairobi, are hundreds of electric bicycles from the Kenyan start-up eWaka Mobility. Founded in 2021 by Celeste Vogel and Jimmy Tune,…
Cryptoqueen who fled China for London mansion to be sentenced over £5bn Bitcoin stash
Tony HanGlobal China Unit Metropolitan Police Qian Zhemin enjoyed a lavish lifestyle of travel and shopping before UK police discovered her stash of crypto A woman, said by police to…
Tech Life – Web-scraping bots
Available for over a year We look at the impact data-scraping robots from AI firms are having on the online encyclopedia used by hundreds of millions of people. Also in…
Dundee and US surgeons achieve world-first stroke surgery using robot
Graham FraserBBC Scotland University of Dundee Prof Iris Grunwald demonstrates the technology which she says now shows that a specialist doesn’t need to be “in the same hospital, or even…
A hacking kingpin reveals all to the BBC
Joe TidyCyber correspondent, Colorado BBC Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka “Tank”, left thousands of victims across the world After years of reading about “Tank” and months of planning a visit to him…