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Millions of Brits can’t access mobile internet as O2’s data services go down

Dec06
by on December 6, 2018 at 10:48 am
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One of the largest UK phone networks, O2, is investigating a network outage that has rendered mobile data inaccessible to the company’s 25 million customers. The issue is also impacting customers of MVNOs that piggyback on O2’s infrastructure, like GiffGaff, Tesco Mobile, and Lyca Mobile. This means that the number of impacted customers is, in reality, likely to be much higher than 25 million. In a tweet, the network said that the issue lay with one of its third-party suppliers, and recommended that users switch to Wi-Fi wherever possible. Outage Update: One of our 3rd party suppliers has identified a…

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Errand service TaskRabbit launches in six new UK cities

Dec06
by on December 6, 2018 at 10:15 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, UK


TaskRabbit today announced a massive expansion to its UK operations and is now available in six new markets: Brighton, Cardiff, Coventry, Reading, Oxford, and Liverpool and Warrington. The company also plans to launch operations in Edinburgh and Glasgow by early 2019. The on-demand app, which IKEA acquired in 2017, connects people with others who’ll do their tedious household tasks. This includes things like cleaning, assembling flat-packed furniture, mounting TVs, and delivery. Think of it as like Uber, but for the “man in a van” (or woman) of this world. TaskRabbit first launched in London five years ago. For the most…

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Errand service TaskRabbit launches in six new UK cities

Dec06
by on December 6, 2018 at 10:15 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, UK


TaskRabbit today announced a massive expansion to its UK operations and is now available in six new markets: Brighton, Cardiff, Coventry, Reading, Oxford, and Liverpool and Warrington. The company also plans to launch operations in Edinburgh and Glasgow by early 2019. The on-demand app, which IKEA acquired in 2017, connects people with others who’ll do their tedious household tasks. This includes things like cleaning, assembling flat-packed furniture, mounting TVs, and delivery. Think of it as like Uber, but for the “man in a van” (or woman) of this world. TaskRabbit first launched in London five years ago. For the most…

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France will tax tech giants in 2019 if EU doesn’t step up

Dec06
by on December 6, 2018 at 10:08 am
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Plans for EU-wide digital services tax to prevent tax evasion were struck down this week as the proposal didn’t receive unanimous support from all 28 member states. This happened despite Germany and France‘s attempt to reach a consensus by proposing a bill full of concessions, which would specifically target behemoths like Google and Facebook. France isn’t taking the results lying down. French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, has now upped the ante by announcing France‘s plans to enact its own tax on digital revenue in March 2019, if EU members cannot agree on a similar tax for the union, Reuters…

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German artists brilliantly honeypot ‘Nazis’ into exposing themselves and their friends

Dec06
by on December 6, 2018 at 10:02 am
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In an elaborate scheme, the German political art collective Center for Political Beauty (ZPS) tricked thousands of potential far-right supporters to unknowingly reveal themselves. Earlier this week ZPS set up a site where people could identify far-right demonstrators in exchange for money. The site sparked a huge controversy in Germany, not only because it evoked memories of the country’s past security services, but also because many of the images of demonstrators were supposedly uploaded without permission.  The “Special Commission Chemnitz” campaign promised people cash to name participants of a violent anti-immigrant protest in the German city of Chemnitz earlier this year. Rewards…

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