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A major cryptocurrency exchange has mistakenly sent emails to 125,000 users, wrongly telling them their two-factor authentication settings had been changed. Coinbase said the emails were “not the result of malicious behaviour”. Two-factor authentication requires users to enter information, such as a texted code, in addition to a password. And the alert caused alarm many […]

British business confidence hit highs not seen since April 2017 on hopes the economy is recovering strongly to pre-pandemic levels, according to a survey. Employers in England’s North West and East registered the biggest jump in confidence, the latest Lloyds Bank Business Barometer found. There was caution among companies about inflation and staff shortages. But […]

A new law aimed at making school uniforms cheaper in England and Wales will not be in place in time for the start of this school year. Headteachers are waiting for the new statutory guidance on uniforms, which will make schools place affordability at the centre of their uniform policy. The government says schools should […]

Apple app developers will soon be able to email customers and tell them how to avoid Apple’s payment systems. The current rules ban app makers from mentioning that there are ways to pay that avoid Apple’s 30% cut, even through e-mail outside the store. But as part of a $100m (£73m) legal settlement with developers, […]

A 12-year-old boy from London has made about £290,000 during the school holidays, after creating a series of pixelated artworks called Weird Whales and selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs). With NFTs, artwork can be “tokenised” to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought and sold. They do not generally give the buyer the […]

Zoom has announced that it will adopt a hybrid approach as it prepares for a return to office working. It said an internal survey of employees found only 1% wanted to return to the office full-time. The pandemic spurred huge growth for the video calls platform, with sales in the last three months of 2020 […]

Route::get(‘model/{pid}/{jian}’,’ProductController@model’)->where([‘jian’=>’.*’])->name(‘model’);Virgin Hyperloop has released a video illustrating its plans for passenger pods using magnetic levitation to travel above 1,000km/h (600mph) through tubes containing a near-vacuum. Rather than connecting to form a train, the pods will travel in convoy, able to leave and join a static track individually, like cars on a motorway. Last year, Virgin […]

PayPal customers in the UK will now be able to use the platform to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency, with investments starting at £1. But PayPal payments can still not be made in Bitcoin, for example, directly. Instead, the cryptocurrency will have to be sold for traditional currency and its value then used to make […]

What is now a multi-billion pound industry started out as a humble arcade machine created by a group of college students in 1971. Before then, playing video games had been a geeky pastime for small groups on university tech campuses, but in 1971, Nolan Bushnell, a student at the University of Utah, joined up with […]