The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) and Britain, is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another state—the Republic of Ireland.
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UK upskirting ban proves sexual assault laws are only just catching up with tech
Until yesterday, upskirting was almost completely legal. The practice involves taking sexually intrusive photos up people’s ...
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New hydrogen trains could put an end to diesel
When the UK government cancelled its plans to electrify train lines across Wales, the Midlands and the north of England, ...
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UK financial watchdog asks the public how to regulate cryptocurrency
The UK’s financial watchdog has launched a consultation on existing guidance around cryptoassets amid fears that companies ...
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The UK government's settled status app for EU nationals is an embarrassment
A bit like any central government IT project, really.
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Investors poured a record £200M into UK cryptocurrency startups in 2018
Funding into cryptocurrency and blockchain startups in the UK reached a new record last year.
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Why we will probably never have a perfect clock
We still have to make sure that the time we define matches our everyday experience of day and night and the rhythms defined ...
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How you can teach AI to speak Welsh (and other minority languages)
Pioneering smart home technologies and voice assistants don’t, as a rule, speak Welsh – although the Welsh government ...
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Coinbase is now available to 3.4M more Europeans in 6 new markets
Coinbase is taking its cryptocurrency exchange come brokerage to six more European nations and 3.4 million more people before ...
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UK tax authorities: ‘crypto assets’ are not currency or money
The UK's tax office published details that outlines its stance on cryptocurrency and digital assets, all in the name of taxation. ...
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250-page document dump is another nail in Facebook’s coffin
A member of British Parliament just released a massive cache of Facebook's internal documents, blowing the lid off some pretty ...
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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 ...
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Don’t post your kid online
As we set out on a two-hour drive, my pregnant girlfriend told me she didn’t want anyone, including ourselves, to share ...
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Facebook Ad Library: Only 3 'Brexit' ads for whole month. Yeah, right!
Facebook may well look back on 2018 as its annus horribilis. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March, to a data breach ...
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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 ...
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Why trying to regulate social media is a political mess
Free speech is a key aspect of the internet, but it has become obvious that people push the freedom to extremes. But regulating ...
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A geneticist and social scientist debate if we should edit the genomes of human embryos
Felicity Boardman: The birth of a child with genetic disease is generally an unexpected event. The parents of these children ...
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Tattoodo wants to be the Booking.com of getting inked
Tattoodo has launched a platform that will allow people from across the world to find and book their next tattoo online.
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UK bans ‘misleading’ Facebook ads for a popular contraceptive app
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned Natural Cycle's advert on Facebook after claims that ads were ...
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Analyst: Renewable energy will be 'effectively free' by 2030
Analysts at Swiss investment bank UBS believe that by 2030, we could all be living without much of a carbon footprint -- ...
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Coinbase is giving USers immediate deposits and higher cryptocurrency trading limits
A new Coinbase update will allow US users to purchase and trade $25,000 worth of cryptocurrency every day - seven times the ...
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Jeff Bezos must spend his $150B helping humanity otherwise he's a scumbag
Well, it's happened. Amazon's CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, is now the richest person ever. According to Bloomberg, Amazon's ...
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Scientists are slaughtering radio-tracked hornets to save the bees
Bees and other pollinators are pretty important to, you know, life as we know it. Unfortunately, things aren't always rosy ...
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Who are the biggest consumers of online porn?
We teamed up with SimilarWeb to explore who are the biggest consumers of online porn by country. The results may surprise ...
