Image copyright PA The Royal Family has published social media guidelines for the public, vowing to block users who leave offensive or abusive comments on official channels. Posts on the Clarence House, Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace feeds may be hidden, deleted or reported to police, the new rules say. It follows reports that staff …
Image copyright Sony Image caption Sony is discontinuing the Vita PS Sony has officially ended production of its PS Vita games console. The handheld console has been gradually phased out over the past few years – and this weekend Sony announced it would be discontinuing the Vita’s final two models. The PS Vita struggled against …
Image copyright Expensive Chat An entrepreneur has launched an online chat platform where users pay $0.01 (£0.0075) per character for the messages they share with the community. Marc Köhlbrugge described the service as a social experiment. At time of writing there are about 100 people using it and $335 has been spent so far. Most …
Image caption Gaby Eirew (right) with her mother, Denise Gaby Eirew suffered two big bereavements in the space of a month. The experience impelled her to find a way of prompting parents to record video messages for their children. When Gaby Eirew’s father was dying from pancreatic cancer one of his last pieces of advice …
Image copyright Absher Google has remained silent over reports it told a US congresswoman that a controversial app was not in breach of its terms and conditions. Saudi app Absher can be used by men to track women and prevent them from travelling. The office of Jackie Speier confirmed to the BBC that a verbal …
Image copyright EA Image caption In Anthem, players are freelancers who use flying exosuits to take on alien enemies System crashes caused by bugs in the Anthem video game have led Sony to offer full refunds to players. Many people reported on social media that a serious bug had led to their PlayStation 4 console …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe prototype Jibo robot lacked many of the abilities promised for the final model (video from 2016) Owners of the “social robot” Jibo say the device has been telling them its servers are soon to be switched off. Jibo had ambitions to be “the world’s first family …
The album Mezzanine by Massive Attack has been stored using genetic information for the first time, using technology developed at ETH Zurich. Millions of copies of the album were put into spray paint using synthetic DNA. The music is then stored in any painting made using the spray can. So could DNA be the new …
Image copyright Waymo Image caption Lidar is seen as crucial to the success of self-drive cars Google spin-off Waymo plans to sell the sensors it uses on its self-drive cars to other industries. The technology behind them was at the heart of legal action last year, with Google accusing taxi app company Uber of stealing …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be “privacy-focused” After a solid year of data breaches, privacy scandals and controversial policy decisions, Mark Zuckerberg now says he wants Facebook to become a “privacy-focused” social network. Facebook’s critics have laughed at the suggestion. Until now, it has been encouraging people to share …