Social Media Tutorials & How-Tos

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Posted by Alex Lee on October 13, 2017

South Park mocks Zuckerberg for spread of fake news

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on October 13, 2017

LIGO has finally solved the mystery of the universe’s missing gold by “watching” stars smash into each other

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 13, 2017

“Stop funding rapists”: Rose McGowan attacks Jeff Bezos as Twitter struggles to explain why it suspended her account

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Posted by Tim Danton on October 12, 2017

Quick poll: Is social media bad for you?

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Posted by Sasha Muller on October 12, 2017

The Technology Excellence Awards 2017: We crown the best brands and pick the top products of the year

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Posted by Victoria Woollaston on October 12, 2017

Clean Growth Strategy: UK outlines plans to cut our energy bills and get us all driving electric cars

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 12, 2017

Is Nintendo planning an entirely superfluous Game Boy Mini?

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on October 12, 2017

Oculus Dash brings your desktop to VR, doing away with your monitor in the process

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on October 12, 2017

Oculus For Business goes after the same ground as HTC Vive

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on October 11, 2017

Facebook partners with Xiaomi and Qualcomm for its Oculus Go VR headset

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Posted by Abigail Beall on October 11, 2017

Scientists can now predict what a bird will sing next based on its thoughts

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 11, 2017

British government wants internet giants to pay a “troll tax” for the suffering their sites cause

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on October 10, 2017

Snapchat’s Context Cards let you book Ubers and tables

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 10, 2017

Uber and Deliveroo’s UK bosses grilled by parliament’s business committee

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on October 10, 2017

Twitter is working on a bookmarking tool

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 10, 2017

This bot catalogues foul-mouthed Github releases

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 10, 2017

Zuckerberg apologises for misjudging the mood with cartoon VR tour of Puerto Rico

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Posted by Victoria Woollaston on October 10, 2017

Clare Hollingworth, the trailblazing journalist who broke news of World War 2, is celebrated in today’s Google Doodle

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Posted by Curtis Moldrich on October 9, 2017

Tesla electric truck: What to expect from Elon Musk’s EV lorry announcement

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on October 9, 2017

Google unearths evidence of large-scale Russian interference during the US election

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on October 9, 2017

BlackBerry Motion lands with a huge battery and no keyboard

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Posted by Alex Lee on October 6, 2017

“That doesn’t even *seem* innocent:” Elon Musk calls out Google’s eerie and invasive Clips camera

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Posted by Jane McCallion on October 6, 2017

US security secrets reportedly stolen in Russian NSA hack

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Posted by Peter Ray Allison on October 6, 2017

Are algorithms making us W.E.I.R.D.?

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Posted by Alex Lee on October 5, 2017

Netflix releases a free, retro Stranger Things mobile game ahead of new season

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on October 5, 2017

The 8 job skills of the future: Earn more money with these skills

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 4, 2017

6 things I learned while judging a startup pitch-off

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on October 4, 2017

Snapchat’s drastic app redesign is set to launch next month as it desperately tries to stay on top

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 3, 2017

This Star Wars stormtrooper robot will patrol your home on the hunt for rebels

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on October 3, 2017

Artist “vandalises” Snapchat and Jeff Koon’s AR sculpture

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 3, 2017

Facebook Messenger Lite is finally available in the UK

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 3, 2017

Amber Rudd: “I don’t need to understand how encryption works to understand how it’s helping the criminals”

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Posted by Sponsored on October 2, 2017

The business of malware

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on October 2, 2017

Google to scrap contentious paywall policy

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Posted by Sponsored on October 2, 2017

The 10 best (or should that be worst?) malware attacks

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 1, 2017

Margaret Atwood on Trump: “You don’t write these things hoping they become more relevant”

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Posted by Curtis Moldrich on September 29, 2017

Project Neptune: A £4 million submarine, made by Aston Martin

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on September 28, 2017

How Perfect Blue predicted our 2017 tech problems

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Posted by Alan Martin on September 28, 2017

Zuckerberg hits back at Trump’s Facebook collusion claims

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Posted by Alan Martin on September 27, 2017

If the government can’t get an Uber ban right, Facebook and Google have nothing to worry about

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Posted by William Stanton on September 27, 2017

Firefox Quantum ditches Yahoo as its default search engine two years early in favour of Google

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Posted by William Stanton on September 27, 2017

In other ‘features we don’t need’ news, Twitter now lets you have 50 characters in your display name

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Posted by Victoria Woollaston on September 26, 2017

Dyson car: UK firm creates 300 new jobs to get its electric cars on the road

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Posted by Victoria Woollaston on September 26, 2017

Instagram launches “kindness stickers” and now gives you more control over your comments

Posted by Sydney on September 26, 2017

How To Change the Ghost on Snapchat

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Posted by Alan Martin on September 26, 2017

Twitter explains why it’s one rule for Trump and another for you

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on September 22, 2017

The 11 best games at EGX you totally missed

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on September 22, 2017

Maths as an emotional journey: How Marcus du Sautoy is using music to highlight the beauty of numbers

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Posted by William Stanton on September 22, 2017

Uber alternatives: The best of the rest taxi-hailing apps in London

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on September 22, 2017

Uber files appeal against loss of London licence