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Scientists in Japan claim laser-based quantum internet breakthrough
Quantum internet technology would make 100 per cent secure internet communications possible
Websites using Facebook's 'Like' button subject to GDPR data rules
Social media plug-ins, such as Facebook's 'Like' button, make a website operator a joint data controller, European Court of Justice rules
US approves $26bn T-Mobile-Sprint merger
Settlement put together by DoJ would see a weak fourth player owned by Dish Network - but it will take years for it to build its own infrastructure, if it ever does
Google and Facebook could be forced to disclose algorithms by Australia's competition watchdog
The regulator recommends creating a branch with more powers to monitor if tech firms use their algorithms to give precedence to their own products over that of rivals
Apple buys Intel's smartphone modem unit in $1 billion deal
The deal covers about 2,200 Intel employees, intellectual property, leases and equipment
Confirmed: Facebook hit with $5bn FTC fine - but is now facing a new FTC investigation
In addition to the $5bn fine and changes to its corporate structure, Facebook is also facing two US antitrust investigations
Two-thirds of Huawei R&D staff in the US laid off
Six hundred jobs go at Futurewei as a result of US government's ongoing dispute with Huawei
Government still unable to make a decision about Huawei use in UK 5G networks
Official review into Huawei's use in 5G networks claims current 'protections' are inadequate
Hongmeng OS is not designed for smartphones, says Huawei's senior vice president
Huawei wants to continue using Google's Android for smartphones
KCOM goes (for the final time) to Macquarie for £627m in Takeover Panel-managed auction
KCOM auction adds £123m to price on opening offer filed in April
No technical reason for Huawei 5G ban, claims House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
Telecoms operators haven't seen evidence of security risk from Huawei hardware - but will keep Huawei out of core networks anyway
Huawei registers 'Harmony' for its mobile operating system in Europe
Huawei aims for Harmony in Europe as it prepares large-scale redundancies in the US
Presidential Free Speech Summit: Trump accuses social medial firms of treating him unfairly
President Trump says Twitter meddles with his follower count
Amazon to forge ahead with plan to build global internet after filing to launch 3,236 satellites
Amazon gears up Project Kuiper with application for satellite launches to the FCC and ramping up hiring
Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei says their mobile OS will be much faster than Android
HongMeng OS expected to launch in October alongside the Mate 30 Pro smartphone
More than 1,000 Android apps evade permissions and share data anyway
Shift from 'ask on install' to 'ask on first use' enables Baidu Android SDK to exfiltrate user data
'Superfast broadband' now provided to 97 per cent of UK premises
Target of reaching 98 per cent of UK premises could be achieved by the end of 2020
Vodafone switches on 5G network
Vodafone 5G only available in parts of London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Bristol, Cardiff and Liverpool at launch
Cloudflare blames global outage on botched firewall rule change
Deployment of single misconfigured firewall rule caused CPU server spike across Cloudflare's infrastructure
Three reveals 5G roll-out plan but aims to focus on Home Broadband first
Three UK's 5G plan includes speed boosts for existing 3G and 4G infrastructure as it replaces Samsung 4G radio-access technology with Huawei
Google open sources robots.txt web parser
Google reveals details of its Robots Exclusion Protocol
Virgin Media to hike subscriptions for the second time in a year
Virgin Media to hike subscriptions by more than twice the rate of inflation, this time blaming increases in business rates
Movement of atoms imaged in 4D for the first time
Scientists used atomic electron tomography technique to capture the images of atomic movement during nucleation
Ofcom makes it easier to switch mobile provider
Just text 'PAC' to 65075 - no need to argue with a call centre any more
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