MrBeast has overtaken T-Series as the biggest YouTube channel in a long-running battle for the most subscribers. Indian music label T-Series, which uploads trailers and music videos, held the record for the largest YouTube channel for five years, before it was toppled on Sunday. MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, was already the individual with the...
Hackers are attempting to sell what they say is confidential information belonging to millions of Santander staff and customers. They belong to the same gang which this week claimed to have hacked Ticketmaster. The bank – which employs 200,000 people worldwide, including around 20,000 in the UK – has confirmed data has been stolen. Santander...
5 minutes ago Carrie King,Technology Reporter Doctolib Doctolib says it covers almost all the French population Doctolib is one of the French start-up scene’s great success stories. Founded in 2013 by Stanislas Niox-Chateau and his three co-founders, the software firm assists healthcare providers with administrative tasks, primarily appointment booking and management. Rather than having to...
9 minutes ago Tom Gerken,Technology reporter Microsoft/Activision Microsoft has torn up the rules of big video game launches by announcing its most eagerly awaited new title – Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – will be available straightaway to subscribers of its Game Pass service. Traditionally, gamers have had to hand over significant sums of...
A union representing thousands of workers at Samsung Electronics has called the first strike at the South Korean technology giant since it was founded five and a half decades ago. The National Samsung Electronics Union says it will hold a one-day protest by asking all of its members to use their paid leave on 7...
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WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart has hit back at claims from Elon Musk that the messaging app “exports your user data every night.” Posting on X, Mr Cathcart said the allegation was simply “not correct”. He pointed to the fact WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, meaning they cannot be read by the company at all. Yann...
Google’s new artificial intelligence (AI) search feature is facing criticism for providing erratic, inaccurate answers. Its experimental “AI Overviews” tool has told some users searching for how to make cheese stick to pizza better that they could use “non-toxic glue”. The search engine’s AI-generated responses have also said geologists recommend humans eat one rock per...
Just now Emma Woollacott,Technology Reporter Getty Images Building is still largely manual work If you took a worker from a 1920s construction site and transported them to a present day project, they would not be that surprised by what they saw, according to Sam O’Gorman. “Overall, across Europe and the US, stuff is still built...
A London-born teenager – whose proficiency at spreading the teachings of the Catholic church online led to him being called “God’s influencer” – is set to become a saint. Carlo Acutis died in in 2006, at the age of 15, meaning he would be the first millennial – a person born in the early 1980s...