Category: Technology

Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount 11 minutes ago Zoe Kleinman & Krystina Shveda Technology editor & BBC reporter•@zsk Getty Images The number of data centres in the UK is set to increase by almost a fifth, according to figures shared with BBC News. Data centres are giant warehouses full of… Continue reading Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount

Government expands police use of facial recognition vans More live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be rolled out across seven police forces in England to locate suspects for crimes including sexual offences, violent assaults and homicides, the Home Office has announced. The forces will get access to 10 new vans equipped with cameras which scan… Continue reading Government expands police use of facial recognition vans

Staff fear UK’s Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse 3 hours ago Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Joshua Nevett Political reporter EPA Staff at the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding. Workers at the Alan… Continue reading Staff fear UK’s Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse

Musk’s Tesla applies to supply power to British homes Elon Musk’s electric car and energy company Tesla has applied for a licence to supply electricity to British homes. If approved by the energy watchdog Ofgem, it would allow Tesla to take on the big firms that dominate the UK energy market to provide electricity to… Continue reading Musk’s Tesla applies to supply power to British homes

OpenAI claims GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ 10 hours ago Lily Jamali North America Technology correspondent Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise. Billed as “smarter, faster, and more useful,” OpenAI co-founder and… Continue reading OpenAI claims GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’

Woman awarded £150,000 after LG phone sparks fire in her home A woman has successfully sued former phone manufacturer LG for nearly £150,000 after one of its devices sparked a fire in her home in North Lanarkshire. Denise Parks and her husband Robert were in bed at their house in Coatbridge when a fire broke… Continue reading Woman awarded £150,000 after LG phone sparks fire in her home

Jobs in video games dried up, so we made our own 23 minutes ago Studio Morgan When Holly Hudson enrolled on a university video game design course, she imagined a job at a studio would be waiting at the end of it. Her dream was to work as a 3D artist, but the reality has… Continue reading Jobs in video games dried up, so we made our own

What screen time does to children’s brains is more complicated than it seems 2 hours ago Zoe Kleinman Technology editor•@zsk BBC Zoe will be responding to reader comments about this article between 11am and 12pm (BST) today. Go to the comments section at the bottom of the page from 10am to share what you think… Continue reading What screen time does to children’s brains is more complicated than it seems

Google launches new AI search feature in UK 15 minutes ago Zoe Kleinman Technology editor•@zsk Getty Images Google is rolling out a new tool in the UK that will generate results using artificial intelligence (AI), in a significant shake-up to the world’s most popular search engine. Instead of a list of search results showing links… Continue reading Google launches new AI search feature in UK

Around 6,000 websites to start checking ages in UK, Ofcom says 9 minutes ago Liv McMahon & Andrew Rogers BBC News Getty Images Around 6,000 sites allowing porn in the UK will start checking if users are over 18 from Friday, according to the media regulator Ofcom. Dame Melanie Dawes, its chief executive, told the… Continue reading Around 6,000 websites to start checking ages in UK, Ofcom says