Hinge sends you notifications when someone you’re talking to has read a message you sent. If you want to avoid this, you should be more specific when you send a message. For example, when proposing a date, try to be more detailed. Similarly, if you’re sending a funny message, try to be more specific. Hinge uses GPS for location The Hinge app uses GPS for location and Facebook data to determine...
Roles and responsibilities Kate is responsible for the overall commissioning strategy for the full range of unscripted content, encompassing Entertainment, Documentaries, Specialist Factual, Arts & Classical Music, Factual Entertainment & Events and Daytime & Early-Peak.She oversees around 3000 hours of broadcast tv each year and is accountable for the overall performance and...
Bristol-based cyber-security firm Immersive Labs has raised $66m (£59.7m) in its latest funding round. The company, which counts corporate giants such as HSBC, Citi, Pfizer and Daimler among its customer base, said it would use the capital to continue its growth and investment in its Cyber Workforce Resilience platform. Investment firm Ten Eleven Ventures led the raise, while existing investors –...
The director of GCHQ, Jeremy Fleming, said he would encourage young people to use TikTok, despite a campaign pledge by the prime minister, Liz Truss, to “crack down” on the Chinese video app and companies like it. The spy chief was asked on Tuesday morning if he would be concerned if his children were to use TikTok after he had warned that China was seeking to “impose its values” in other...
A third of social media users aged between eight and 17 have the online age of an adult because they sign up with a false date of birth, according to new research. The fake age issue means that young users in the UK are at greater risk of being exposed to harmful or adult content, as platforms presume they are older than they in fact are. The majority of children aged between eight and 17 who use...
Taiwanese politicians have dismissed comments from Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, that allowing China to have some control over the island would resolve the cross-strait dispute, urging him to respect the wishes of Taiwan’s citizens. Musk’s suggestion to “figure out a special administrative zone for Taiwan that is reasonably palatable,” given in an interview with the Financial Times on...
Just weeks after Optus revealed that the records of 10 million customers had been compromised in a data breach, its parent company, Singtel, is dealing with two of its own data hacks. Singtel confirmed that a Friday post on a data leak forum contained information obtained from Singtel in a cyber-attack in 2020. It was the same forum where a user last month threatened to release Optus’s stolen...
Amazon is investing more than €1bn (£880m) to add thousands more electric lorries, vans and cargo bikes to its sprawling fleet of delivery vehicles across Europe over the next five years. The online retailer said it would invest £300m in the UK, where it plans to have as many as 700 electric HGVs by 2025, up from just five today, and more than triple its fleet of electric vans to 10,000 across...
Further delays in implementing the online safety bill will endanger young people at risk of harmful social media content, Molly Russell’s father has warned. Ian Russell said he received a phone call last week from the culture secretary, Michelle Donelan, in which she pledged to resume the bill’s progress through parliament before Christmas. The bill, which includes provisions for protecting...
Todd Sampson’s documentary about how the internet is a giant, unregulated psychological experiment that is changing us is not alarmist, it’s just reality, the former advertising executive says. In his two-part film, Mirror Mirror: Love & Hate, Sampson shows us first hand the mind-altering power of technology; a technology so intoxicating children choose the online world over the real world...