Halsey got good news on Tuesday when her label Records announced it was ready to release her new single. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter got the public OK when the label tweeted that the new song would drop on June 9. The detente comes after the hitmaker — who is nonbinary and uses she/her and they/them pronouns … Read moreHalsey gets permission from label to release new single So Good

More than half of Britons admit they have been deceived by fake news online at least once, a study has revealed. Newsworks, Thinkingmacro the newspaper industry marketing body, found 80 per cent of people regularly come across misinformation while browsing the internet. However, less than half of respondents said they bothered to check whether it … Read moreFake online news has fooled over half of us at least once, study shows

Howard Brown was the wonderfully cheery, bespectacled, sharp-suited customer-services rep who was plucked from obscurity more than 20 years ago to put some bang into banking as the all-singing, all-dancing new face of the . He sprang on to our screens in 2000 with a cover version of Tom Jones’s song Sex Bomb.It was the … Read moreHoward Brown brands Halifax 'DISGRACEFUL' over gender badge row

Meet Kami – the world’s first virtual influencer with Down syndrome. Kami may look like a real person, but she is actually a computer graphics animation made of pixels, who only exists on-screen.  The young social media user – who has a bright smile and long, purple hair – was created as a way to … Read moreMeet Kami – a VIRTUAL influencer with Down syndrome

By Kim Harrisberg JOHANNESBURG, July 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It might sound like science fiction, but a Nigerian-born tech entrepreneur thinks he has found a way for Africans to escape problems like inequality and bad governance – a virtual nation born online. His is among a number of African-led virtual projects that aim to … Read moreStartups eye metaverse, NFTs, to solve Africa's economic woes

Alphabet Inc’s said on Wednesday it would slow the pace of hiring for the rest of the year, the latest company to make such a move as decades-high and the fallout from the Ukraine crisis pressure businesses. The announcement aligns Google with other major tech companies including Technologies Inc and Inc and comes a day … Read moreGoogle is latest tech firm to put a 'go slow' on new hires