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Gaming’s never been more popular – hardly surprising when we’re all stuck at home. PC gaming, in particular, is having a renaissance. The Steam game platform saw records broken for all its peak

Some of the laptops given out in England to support vulnerable children home-schooling during lockdown contain malware, BBC News has learned. Teachers shared details on an online forum about suspicious files found

This Sunday, Elon Musk visited the Vegas Loop mega tunnel , built by his drilling company The Boring Company . With this underground tunnel , the tycoon seeks to revolutionize tourist transport , as it will take people from one end of

Google has threatened to pull out of the Australian market if a new law governing its relationship with news publishers goes ahead. So what’s the row all about? Why would Google pull

The world’s leading technology nation has a new president, and one who seems pretty hostile to Silicon Valley. On this week’s Tech Tent, we ask just what a Biden administration might have

Facebook News, the social network’s dedicated section for news content, is launching in the UK. The UK is the second market to get Facebook News, which launched in the United States last

Sports car manufacturer Lotus has announced production of a new prototype which will create 250 jobs. The firm said it was investing £100m at its headquarters in Hethel, near Norwich. But three

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the inclusion of ransomware payments in first-party cyber-insurance policies. It said insurance was “not an alternative” to doing everything possible to first minimise the

The NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers. The scam email includes a link to “register” for the vaccine, but no

LGBT dating app Grindr faces an £8.5m fine for illegally selling user data to advertisers. Norway’s Data Protection Authority plans to fine the platform 100m Norwegian Crowns, or around 10% of Grindr’s