United Kingdom Stories for 2019

UK Government Accidentally Doxxes Award Winners 27
Electric Buses on London's 100 Route Will Play a Soundtrack To Alert Pedestrians To Their Presence 148
UK To Create Regulator To Police Big Tech Companies 16
UK Proposes Plan To Ban Sales of Locked Mobile Phones 36
Reddit Bans 61 Accounts, Citing 'Coordinated' Russian Campaign To Interfere In UK Vote 135
Coal Power Becoming 'Uninsurable' As Firms Refuse Cover 270
UK Gambling Machines Loaded With AI 'Cool Off' System 42
Woman Who Inherited Huntington's Disease Sues Doctors 142
Leaked Russian Interference Report Raises Questions About Brexit, UK Election Security 174
UK's Labor Party Promises Free Fiber Broadband For All, Paid For By Taxing Tech Companies 139
Asthma Carbon Footprint 'As Big As Eating Meat' 221
NHS Pagers Are Leaking Medical Data 29
Facebook Agrees To Pay Cambridge Analytica Fine To UK 31
UK Set To Allow Huawei in 'Non-Contentious' Parts of 5G Networks 19
Air Pollution 'Triggers Hundreds More Heart Attacks and Strokes,' Study Finds 58
UK Man Invents Aluminum-Air Battery In His Garage 212
Brexit Deal Leaves Companies in Limbo Over Data Flows 55
UK Drops Plans For Online Pornography Age Verification System 99
The UK's National Health System Just Opened A Treatment Center for Videogame Addiction 73
Twitter Executive Is Also A British Army 'Psyops' Soldier 43
Monty Python's 50th Anniversary Celebrated With 'Extremely Silly' Event 51
US, UK Sign Pact To Share Electronic Evidence in Criminal Cases 73
Firefox Promises UK Government DNS-Over-HTTPS Won't Be Default in UK 118
Facebook Advertisers Can Write Their Own Headlines For Shared News Stories 17
London's Hidden Cable Tunnels Could Warm Thousands of Homes 57
Loot Boxes in Games Are Gambling and Should Be Banned For Kids, Say UK MPs 65
South Africa, UK Acknowledge Mass Surveillance By Tapping Undersea Internet Cables 56
All UK Airports To Install 3D Baggage Scanning Technology By 2022 19
Ringing the Changes: How Britain's Red Phone Boxes Are Being Given New Life 30
UK Cybersecurity Agency Urges Devs To Drop Python 2 50
Dreams of Offshore Servers Haunt The Ocean-Based Micronation of 'Sealand' 43
Major Breach Found in Biometrics System Used By Banks, UK Police and Defence Firms 21
76% of UK's National Health Service PCs Not on Windows 10 Despite Looming Deadline 150
Grand Theft Auto Maker Has Paid No UK Corporation Tax in 10 Years 170
UK Made Illegal Copies and Mismanaged Schengen Travelers Database 59
John McAfee Released From Jail in the Dominican Republic 117
Air Travelers May Have To Pay Carbon Charge To Offset Emissions 219
Freshly Elected as UK's Next PM, Boris Johnson Pledges Full Fiber Broadband Bonanza 301
Computer Pioneer and Codebreaker Alan Turing To Appear On UK Money 114
Amazon's Alexa Will Deliver NHS Medical Advice in the UK 45
Tesco, One of the World's Largest Supermarket Operators, Is Testing Cashierless Stores Solely Dependent On Cameras 89
French Lawmakers Approve 3 Percent Tax On Online Giants 151
London Police's Face Recognition System Gets It Wrong 81 Percent of the Time 55
Internet Group Brands Mozilla 'Internet Villain' For Supporting DNS Privacy Feature 273
81% of 'Suspects' Flagged By Met's Police Facial Recognition Technology Innocent, Independent Report Says 120
Researchers Claim Robust 'Universal Computer Memory' Breakthrough 123
EU Should Ban AI-Powered Citizen Scoring and Mass Surveillance, Say Experts 74
Clean Electricity Overtaking Fossil Fuels In Britain 155
The Online Advertising Industry Is Breaking the Law, Says UK Watchdog 19
Google Is Finally Taking Charge of the RCS Rollout 40
UK Porn Block Is a 'Privacy Timebomb,' New Report Warns 87
UK Sets New Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2050 Target 115
Scottish Power To Build Vast Battery To Improve Wind Energy Supply 228
Should the UK Re-Open An Old, Cracked Nuclear Reactor? 264
Model Aircraft Pilots Angry Over Drone Laws 138
Alan Turing Receives a (Late) Obituary From the NYT 86
Blake's 7 Actor Paul Darrow Dies At 78 107
The First Usable Electric Car Was Invented In Britain In 1884 68
British Consumers Have Started To Dump Huawei Phones 142
Theresa May, Undone by Brexit, To Resign as UK Prime Minister 808
Apple Agrees To Notify iPhone Users If iOS Updates Will Affect Performance, UK Watchdog Says 42
EE To Switch on UK's First 5G Network on May 30 21
Ecuador Hands Over Julian Assange's Belongings To US 227
UK Hacking Powers Can Be Challenged in Court, Judge Rules 27
Brexit To Add to Europe's Woes in AI Race, Sweden's Borg Says 63
Britain Passes One Week Without Coal Power For First Time Since 1882 149
UK's National Mapping Agency is Working on a Project To Create Almost Real-Time Maps of Streets 35
UK Nuclear Lab Achieves Americum-Generated Power 135
UK's Tax Authority To Delete Five Million Biometric Voice Records Because it Did Not Have Clear Consent From Its Customers 47
Vodafone Says It Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment 166
A Bitter Turf War is Raging on the Brexit Wikipedia Page 379
UK Minister: Huawei Leaks 'Unacceptable', Criminal Investigation Possible 77
UK To Let Huawei Firm Help Build 5G Network 64
Scientists Develop Self-Propelling Phoenix Aircraft That Inhales Air 90
Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July 295
Police Refer Teenaged Crackers For 'Second Chance' Jobs at Cyber-Security Company 69
White Hat Hackers Cracked 50 UK Universities' Computer Systems In 2 Hours 34
Social Media Bosses Could Be Liable For Harmful Content, Leaked UK Plan Reveals 95
EU Set To Mandate Speed Limiters In All New Cars 485
Automation Threatens 1.5 Million Workers In Britain, Says ONS 125
Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers 478
Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says 219
BBC Visits 'Hated and Hunted' Ransomware Expert 85
Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs 88
Debit Card With Built-In Fingerprint Reader Begins Trial In the UK 58
Satellite Magnate Argues Post-Brexit Britain Will Be 'Lost In Space' 122
Will A No-Deal Brexit Void 340,000 British-Owned .EU Domains? 212
Facebook Takes Down Fake Account Network Used To Spread Hate In UK 198
A Third Person May Have Been Cured of HIV 47
India Beats UK and US on Mobile Data Price 70
Thousands in London Face Incorrect Benefit Cuts From Automated Fraud Detector 95
Vodafone CEO Says Banning Huawei Could Set Europe's 5G Rollout Back Another Two Years 120
Britain and Germany Will Not Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Spying Evidence 240
'Digital Gangster' Facebook Intentionally and Knowingly Violated UK Privacy and Competition Rules, British Lawmakers Say 74
Huawei Would Accept EU Supervision To Lay 5G Network 101
Huawei Admits To Needing 5 Years, $2 Billion To Fix Security Issues 58
Global Warming Could Exceed 1.5C Within Five Years, Report Says 319
Crime Prediction Software 'Adopted By 14 UK Police Forces' 131
The UK's CO2 Emissions Have Fallen 38% Since 1990, Faster Than Any Other Major Developed Country 153
Social Media Stars Agree To Declare When They Post Ads For Products 40
Netflix 'Would Lose 57 Percent of Their Subscribers If They Added Commercials' 287
Tesla Model 3 Is Heading To Europe 129
Cambridge Analytica's Parent Pleads Guilty To Breaking UK Data Law 37
London's Heathrow Airport Halts Departures Over Drone Sighting 128
Video Games Now Account For More Than Half of UK Entertainment Market 49