Manufacturers ready for more demand
Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter Chris Baraniuk Octopus makes heat pumps at its factory in Northern Ireland On the day I visit Octopus Energy’s heat pump factory in Craigavon, Northern Ireland,…
Netflix show uses AI effects for first time to cut costs
Netflix says it has used visual effects created by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in one of its original TV shows for the first time. The streaming giant’s co-chief executive Ted…
US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation
Getty Images Lawmakers in the US have passed the country’s first major national cryptocurrency legislation. It is a major milestone for the once fringe industry, which has been lobbying Congress…
Meta investors settle $8bn lawsuit with Zuckerberg over Facebook privacy
Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to settle a multibillion dollar lawsuit with a group of shareholders over how top executives at Meta handled repeated privacy violations by Facebook. The shareholders were…
Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong cleared of fraud by South Korea’s top court
Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong has been cleared by South Korea’s top court of fraud charges, concluding a years-long legal battle over his role in a 2015 merger deal. Lee, the…
Does the UK video games industry have a class problem?
BBC Declan Cassidy is the CEO of Into Games “I’m scared for the future of games,” says Chris Goodyear. “It could end up going the way that theatre has, and…
How will age verification for porn work and what about your data?
Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images The way people in the UK access websites with pornographic material is about to undergo a significant change. The Online Safety Act says sites…
Co-op boss says sorry to 6.5m people who had data stolen in hack
Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Watch: Co-op boss says immediate action was taken when the data breach was discovered The chief executive of Co-op…
Meta to spend hundreds of billions on AI data centres, says Mark Zuckerberg
Meta’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has said the social media giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centres in the US. The first multi-gigawatt data…