United Kingdom Stories for 2020

Brexit Deal Mentions Netscape Browser and Mozilla Mail 194
A Deepfake Queen Delivered an Alternative Christmas Speech to Warn about Misinformation 47
What Scientists Know About the Coronavirus Variant Spreading In the UK 125
Its Official: America's Space Force is Better than Its Other Military Branches at 'Call of Duty' 69
New UK Strain of Coronavirus More Infectious, Say Government Scientists 156
UK Use of Software Linked To Russia-Hack Runs Deep 29
UK Politicians Call For 'Making the Resale of Goods Purchased Using An Automated Bot an Illegal Activity' 126
The First Person In the UK To Have Air Pollution Listed As a Cause of Death 79
Lockdown Gardening in Britain Leads To Archaeological Discoveries 66
UK Warns People With Serious Allergies To Avoid Pfizer Vaccine 175
More Than 500,000 Full Electric Cars Sold So Far This Year In Europe 314
UK Seeks Site For World's First Fusion Power Station 47
UK Becomes the First Country To Approve Pfizer/BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine, Roll Out To Start Next Week 109
Amazon and Apple 'Not Playing Their Part' in Tackling Electronic Waste 74
UK To Set Up 'Pro-Competition' Regulator To Put Limits on Big Tech 42
Britain Commits $333 Million To Help Carriers Replace Huawei 5G 56
EU Plans To Increase Offshore Windfarm Capacity By 250% 111
The Curse of the Buried Treasure 85
Doctor Who's Sonic Pioneers Will Turn the Internet Into a Giant Musical Instrument 12
Rolls Royce Plans 16 Mini-Nuclear Plants For UK 213
UK Firm To Turn Moon Rock Into Oxygen and Building Materials 54
As UK Military Begins Mass Coronavirus Testing, Head of Armed Forces Ponders Robot Soldiers 47
UK Agency Demands Company Stop Using Name Which Includes an HTML Closing Tag 107
UK Contact Tracing App Failed To Flag People Exposed To COVID-19 46
Support Grows For Universal Basic Income Trials in UK 177
US and UK Citizens Are World's Biggest Sources of Plastic Waste 103
UK Mobile Networks Banned From Selling Locked Phones 33
The Explosive Problem of 'Zombie' Batteries 120
Drivers To Be Banned From Picking Up Mobile Phones 163
Amazon To Escape UK Digital Services Tax That Will Hit Smaller Traders 58
World's First Hydrogen Double Deckers Arrive In Aberdeen 112
UK Government Scraps Ad That Encouraged People Working in the Arts To Reskill by Turning To a Career in Cybersecurity 91
London Installed AI Cameras To Monitor Social Distancing, Lockdown Restrictions 65
Britain Is Getting Ready for Its Space Race 48
Nvidia Pledges To Built Britain's Largest Supercomputer Following $40 Billion Bid For Arm 29
Hydrogen-Powered Train Makes Its First Trip in the UK 18
E-Scooters Should Be Legalized, Says UK Transport Committee 69
Huawei 'Failed To Improve UK Security Standards' 7
Dual-Flush Toilets 'Wasting More Water Than They Save' 136
Tesco, One of the World's Largest Supermarket Operators, Sets 300% Sales Target For Plant-Based Alternatives To Meat 126
Uber Can Continue Operating In London After Winning Court Appeal 17
UK Risks Losing Contract For New Climate Research Centre Because of Brexit 119
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple Urged to Stop Advertising to Minors 64
Cambridge Staff 'Fobbed Off' At Meeting Over ARM Sale To Nvidia, Says Union 76
ARM Co-Founder Starts 'Save Arm' Campaign To Keep Independence Amid $40 Billion Nvidia Deal 61
Nvidia Reportedly Acquiring ARM For $40 Billion 138
Huawei Closing Enterprise Hardware Division In the UK 13
MIT Sleep Monitor Can Track People's Sleeping Positions Using Radio Signals 15
It's the Biggest Job in Tech. So Why Can't They Find Anyone To Do It? 97
Bletchley Park Museum To Layoff a Third of Its Staff 48
Engineers Set New World Record for Internet Speed 43
UK Will Take a Crack At Regulating Future Self-Driving Car Systems 31
Police Use of Facial Recognition Violates Human Rights, UK Court Rules 58
Should the U.K. Government Form a Coalition to Buy ARM? 124
Argos To Stop Printing Catalogue After Almost 50 Years 18
Slashdot Interviews an Oxford Vaccine Trial Participant 80
UK and US Say Russia Fired a Satellite Weapon in Space 83
Harmful Lies Spread Easily in the UK Because the Nation Lacks a Law To Regulate Social Media, Study Concludes 249
British Airways Announces Immediate Retirement of Boeing 747 Fleet 154
UK Bans Huawei From 5G Network, Raising Tensions With China 72
Australia, UK Open Probe Into Clearview Over Data Privacy 9
Apple's UK Stores Paid $7.7M in Tax Despite $1.7B in Sales 153
UK Universities Comply With China's Internet Restrictions 78
Giant Flywheel Project In Scotland Could Prevent UK Blackouts 234
Fresh Calls For Guarantees on Digital Taxation in Future UK-US Trade Deal 32
'We've Bought the Wrong Satellites': UK Investment In OneWeb Baffles Experts 241
Renewable Energy Breaks UK Record In First Quarter of 2020 87
Disney Kids Channels To Shutter In UK, Content Moving To Disney+ 42
UK Virus-Tracing App Switches To Apple-Google Model 34
Construction Begins On World's Biggest Liquid Air Battery 117
Babylon Health Data Breach Allowed Users To View Other Patients' Video Consultations 9
Under Pressure, UK Government Releases NHS COVID Data Deals With Big Tech 15
UK Willing To Admit Nearly 3 Million From Hong Kong If China Adopts Security Law 283
Anti-Porn Filters Stop Dominic Cummings Trending On Twitter 162
UK May Drop Huawei From Planned 5G Networks 133
Public Release of Newest Imperial College Report for the UK Delayed By 'Politicized Nature' of Lockdown Debate 37
As Demand Plummets This Weekend, UK Renewable Energy Projects May Be Asked To Turn Off 95
EasyJet Admits Data of Nine Million Hacked 23
Canceled Dyson Electric Car Would've Had a 600-Mile Range Per Charge 226
Dozens More Arson Attacks on UK Phone Masts Over 5G Conspiracy Theory 171
Coronavirus: NHS Reveals Source Code Behind Contact-Tracing App 93
Trust In Scientists Grows As Fake Coronavirus News Rises, UK Poll Finds 123
UK Reports Highest Coronavirus Death Toll In Europe 227
Robert May, Former UK Chief Scientist and Chaos Theory Pioneer, Dies Aged 84 11
Number-Plate Cam Site Had No Password, Spills 8.6 Million Logs of UK Road Journeys 48
Company Spends $25M Building Ventilators That Are Now No Longer Needed 113
First Human Trial In Europe of a Coronavirus Vaccine Has Begun In Oxford 183
'Murder Threats' To Telecoms Engineers Over 5G 145
UK To Trial Coronavirus Treatments Using Blood From Survivors 64
20 Suspected Phone Mast Attacks Over Easter 84
UK App To Track Coronavirus Spread To Be Launched 45
Russia Spreads Conspiracy Theory Linking Coronavirus Pandemic to Bill Gates 184
Conspiracy Theories Provoke 30 Arson and Vandalism Attacks Against UK Cellphone Towers 161
A Coronavirus Vaccine 'May Be Six Months Away' 203
UK Government Encourages Social Distancing With In-Game Health Messages 20
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Taken To Intensive Care For Coronavirus Treatment 405
After Four More Phone Masts Attacked, YouTube Promises To Remove Some 5G Conspiracy Videos 335
Broadband Engineers Threatened Due To 5G Coronavirus Conspiracies 92
What Happens When Epidemiologists are Undermined By Politics? 504
Help Needed To Rescue UK's Old Rainfall Records 20
Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister, Has the Coronavirus 349
UK Cash Usage Halves Within Days as Shops Close Due To Coronavirus 40
Britons Saying Final Goodbyes To Dying Relatives By Videolink 88
UK Coronavirus: Boris Johnson Announces Strict Lockdown Across Country 134
McDonald's Is Closing All Its Restaurants in the UK 128
Coronavirus: Trump Suspends Travel From Europe To US 526
Rail Station Wi-Fi Provider in UK Exposed Traveller Data 19
Nonprofit Argues Germany Can't Ratify the 'Unitary Patent' Because of Brexit 64
Amazon Is Collecting Donations For a Scientology-Linked Anti-Drug Charity 45
US, UK Formally Blame Russia for Mass-Defacement of Georgian Websites 23
Google Users In UK To Lose EU Data Protection: Reuters 70
UK To Spend $1.6 Billion on World's Best Climate Supercomputer 126
UK Police Deny Responsibility For Poster Urging Parents To Report Kids For Using Kali Linux 67
UK To Host Spyware Firm Accused of Aiding Human Rights Abuses 17
Rolls-Royce Plans To Build Up To 15 Mini Nuclear Reactors In Britain 347
Brexit Happens 556
Why the UK is Banning Default Passwords in IoT Devices 74
Huawei Allowed Limited Access To UK's 5G Networks as Britain Defies US Pressure 86
Met Police To Deploy Facial Recognition Cameras 52
Alan Turing's Doctorate & Knighthood Medal Recovered 36 Years After Theft 22
'There's Nothing Wrong With My No-Email Policy' 110
Loot Boxes Push Kids Into Gambling, Says England's NHS Mental Health Director 136
As UK Police Deploy Facial Recognition, Questions Raised About False Positives 127
The UK Health System Tries Spending Millions To Reduce The Time Spent Logging In To Things 118