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• Errand service TaskRabbit launches in six new UK cities

  TaskRabbit's global expansion is picking up pace.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Uber fined €1M for 2016 data breach by Dutch and British privacy watchdogs

  The Dutch Data Protection Authority and UK's Information Commissioner's Office have fined Uber over €1M the company's data ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Facebook fined 0.001% of its 2017 revenue for Cambridge Analytica scandal

  UK watchdog just fined Facebook £500,000 for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but the amount is unlikely to affect the social ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Uber unveils its £200M London Clean Air Plan

  Uber wants to charge 15p per mile to reduce emissions.

  • Matthew Hughes

• UK puts on misleading robot puppet-show in Parliament

  Parliament recently hosted a Pepper robot from Hanson Robotics, bizarrely treating it as though it were a person providing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Amazon is reportedly looking for retail space for its first UK cashierless supermarkets

  Amazon Go is crossing the Atlantic.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Wonga: a premature but overdue eulogy

  It's expensive to be poor.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Research from Stripe shows Brits love Apple Pay; hate tipping

  US tipping culture just doesn't translate across the ocean.

  • Matthew Hughes

• This startup wants to change how renters pay for deposits

  For lots of people, moving apartments is hampered by difficulties in scraping together a security deposit. If you're living ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Google has a handy new job search tool for UK users

  Google wants to help you find your next job.

  • Matthew Hughes

• The UK's new Minister for Digital (probably) doesn't know anything about tech

  The party of meritocracy just picked someone who doesn't do tech to run the UK government's tech portfolio

  • Matthew Hughes

• Facebook just bought an AI startup to help it fight fake news

  Can Bloomsbury AI help fix your timeline?

  • Matthew Hughes