TECHNOLOGY

The process of marriage has been redefined by a courageous couple who made it all happen within six days of their first meeting on Facebook. Chidemma Amedu and Sophy Ijeoma are newlyweds from Nigerian whose journey started from a single Facebook post. The groom, Chidemma, had grown tired of living a bachelor and decided to put up a post on ...

Facebook is to change how its news feed works, making posts from businesses, brands and media less prominent. Instead, content that sparks conversations among family and friends who use the site will be emphasised, explained chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on his page. Organisations on Facebook may see the popularity of their posts decrease as a result, the firm acknowledged. The ...

Apple is cutting the price of its out-of-warranty battery replacement program for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later down to £25. The decision follows claims the company deliberately slowed down older models’ performance with a software update – something it flatly denies. However, Apple did issue an apology to customers for the way it communicated the issues surrounding older ...

A pair of new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in computer processors made by Intel, AMD and ARM by security researchers at Google. The bugs affect the hardware of the CPUs themselves – so all computer users are affected, whether they run Windows or macOS on a Dell or an Apple Macbook. Potentially, they could let hackers access personal information ...

A trio of new robots from tech giant LG are set to be shown off at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The little ‘droids are designed to carry out tasks at airports, hotels and supermarkets – such as carrying suitcases or giving directions. And to make sure they’re up to the task of replacing human workers, the ...

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has said his personal challenge for 2018 is to “fix” the social site and how it handles hate, abuse and fake news. The social network platform’s founder said the firm was making “too many errors” when enforcing its policies and stopping misuse of the site. The platform has been repeatedly criticised in the last year for ...

Apple has said that all iPhones, iPads and Mac computers are affected by two major flaws in computer chips. It emerged this week that tech companies have been racing to fix the Meltdown and Spectre bugs, that could allow hackers to steal data. Apple said it had already released some patches but there was no evidence that the vulnerability had ...

Egypt’s top imam has endorsed a ban on trading in Bitcoin by declaring it “forbidden” by Islam. Sheikh Shawki Allam, the Grand Mutfi, said the digital crypto-currency carried risks of “fraudulence, lack of knowledge, and cheating”. Bitcoin began last year below $1,000 (£737) but reached nearly $20,000 before the end of the year. Then it lost more than 25% of ...

A team of Google researchers has created psychedelic stickers that can fool image recognition software into seeing objects that are not there. Using a toaster as an example, the team produced colourful computer-generated patterns by sampling hundreds of photographs of the appliance. When the patterns were put next to another item, such as a banana, many neural networks saw a ...

An American YouTube star says he does not expect to be forgiven after he posted a video which showed the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan. The video showed Logan Paul and friends discovering the body in the Aokigahara forest at the base of Mount Fuji, known to be a frequent site of suicides. It prompted a barrage ...