United Kingdom Stories for 2021

What Are FFP2 Masks, Mandatory in Some European Countries? 131
US, Britain Help Ukraine Prepare for Potential Russian Cyberassault 39
The NCA Shares 585 Million Passwords With 'Have I Been Pwned' 20
UK Reports Highest Number of Daily Covid Cases Since the Pandemic Began 180
Rocket Scientists and Brain Surgeons Aren't Necessarily More Clever, Study Finds 195
Apple and Google's Mobile Duopoly Likely To Face UK Antitrust Action 53
First UK Death Recorded With Omicron Variant 179
Virgin Media Fined $50K For Spamming Opted-Out Customers 13
UK Regulators Order Facebook-owner Meta To Sell Giphy 27
UK Regulator Expected To Block Meta's Giphy Deal 14
Google Makes Pledges on Browser Cookies To Appease UK Regulator 29
Huge Fines and a Ban on Default Passwords in New UK Law 110
UK Privacy Watchdog Warns Adtech the End of Tracking is Nigh 19
Atom Bank Introduces Four-Day Work Week Without Cutting Pay 28
UK Visa Scheme for Prize-winning Scientists Receives No Applications 171
Amazon To Stop Accepting Visa Credit Cards Issued in the UK, Citing High Fees 99
Nvidia's Arm Deal Faces UK National Security Probe 11
Report: NVIDIA's ARM Takeover Faces Second Antitrust/National Security Inquiry 17
London's Thames, Once Biologically Dead, Has Been Coming Back To Life 53
First Pill To Treat Covid Gets Approval in UK 92
'A Mistake by YouTube Shows Its Power Over Media' 147
UK Reaches Highest COVID-19 Deaths Since March As New AY.4.2 Delta Sub-Variant Spreads 403
'Banning Anonymous Social Media Accounts Would Only Stifle Free Speech and Democracy' 152
Facebook Fined Record £50m By UK Competition Watchdog 15
Boris Johnson Strikes Deal With Bill Gates To Boost Green Technology 64
Give Us Your Biometric Data To Get Your Lunch In 5 Seconds, UK Schools Tell Children 121
£1M Inaugural 'Earthshot' Prize Recognizes Creative Solutions to Climate Problems 35
Amazon's Ring Doorbell Can Violate Your Neighbor's Privacy, a UK Judge Rules 55
An Unprecedented Wave of Online Bank Fraud Is Hitting Britain 23
Ex-minister Predicts 'Huge Battleground' Over UK's Plan To Set Internet Content Rules 46
Intel Not Considering UK Chip Factory After Brexit 283
UK Plans To Invest 5 Billion Pounds In Retaliatory Cyberattacks 57
UK Electric Car Inquiries Soar During Fuel Supply Crisis 210
Facing Post-Brexit Petrol Shortage, UK Issues Emergency Visas for EU Truck Drivers 354
UK Appeals Court Rules AI Cannot Be Listed As a Patent Inventor 54
UK Publishes 10-Year Plan To Become 'AI Superpower,' Seeking To Rival US and China 108
US, EU Pledge 30% Cut In Methane Emissions To Limit Global Heating 29
United Kingdom To Regress To Imperial Weights and Measures 558
UK.gov Is Launching An Anti-Facebook Encryption Push 33
UK's ICO Calls For Browser-Level Controls To Fix 'Cookie Fatigue' 135
School Science Projects Reveal Very High Lead Levels in the Schools' Water 63
UK ISP Sky Broadband Feeds Realtime Customer Bandwidth Data To Litigious Anti-Piracy Firm 30
Should Google Cut Salaries For Its Remote Workers? 429
Google Confirms It's Pulling the Plug on Streams, Its UK Clinician Support App 19
UK To Overhaul Privacy Rules in Post-Brexit Departure From GDPR 66
PayPal Launches Its Cryptocurrency Service in the UK 9
Facebook Could Be Forced by UK Watchdog To Sell Gif Creator Giphy 13
UK Broadband Rollout Trial To Target Hard-To-Reach Homes Through Water Pipes 78
Make Coal History Says PM Boris Johnson After UN Climate Report 247
Vodafone Latest UK Carrier To Reintroduce Roaming Charges in Europe After Brexit 100
Major UK Science Funder Will Require Grantees To Make Papers Free 63
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech From TV, Not School 46
UK Considers Blocking Nvidia Takeover of ARM Over Security 75
UK Pharmaceutical Firm Fined For Hiking Drug Price 6,000% 182
UK Government Backs Scheme For Motorway Cables To Power Lorries 124
Hole Blasted In Guntrader: UK Firearms Sales Website's CRM Database Breached, 111K Users' Info Spilled Online 63
Autonomy Founder Mike Lynch Can Be Extradited To US 46
Tencent Is Buying British Game Studio 'Sumo' For $1.27 Billion 12
Music Streaming Inquiry Finds 'Pitiful Returns' For Performers 108
UK To Ban Online Racists From Soccer Games 160
UK's Biggest Trade Union Takes Aim at Amazon Over 'Price Gouging' Allegations 44
UK Supercomputer Cambridge-1 To Hunt For Medical Breakthroughs 23
Chinese-owned Firm Acquires UK's Largest Semiconductor Manufacturer 41
Bitcoin.org Loses in Court, Owes $48,600 to Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright 108
UK's Largest Chip Plant To Be Acquired By Chinese-Owned Firm Nexperia 44
UK Will Stop Using Coal Power In Just Three Years 90
British Right To Repair Law Comes Into Force Today, But Excludes Smartphones and Computers 28
New UK Internet Law Raises Free Speech Concerns, Say Civil Liberties Campaigners 49
Stars Call for 'Gadget Levy' To Fund UK Creatives 97
Regulators Crack Down on Crypto Exchange Binance in UK, Japan, Germany, and Ontario, Canada 41
Jeff Bezos-Backed Company General Fusion To Build Nuclear Fusion Facility In UK 138
Google's Adtech Business Set To Face Formal EU Probe By Year-End 4
Apple-Google Mobile 'Duopoly' Faces UK Antitrust Scrutiny 71
Potential Sites For UK's First Prototype Fusion Power Plant Identified 82
UK Lawmakers Ask Biden To Drop Charges Against WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange 57
Amazon Gets UK Antitrust Scrutiny On Data Usage, FT Says 1
UK and EU Investigate Facebook Over Unfair Use of Data in Digital Advertising 6
GCHQ's Mass Data Interception Violated Right To Privacy, Court Rules 33
Weak Wi-Fi Password May Have Led UK Police to Bust an Innocent Couple 109
UK Plastic Waste Being Dumped and Burned in Turkey, Says Greenpeace 130
UK To Require Social Media To Protect 'Democratically Important' Content 53
Apple Faces UK Class Action for App Store Overcharging 35
US and UK Release Details on Russia's SolarWinds Hackers 8
Boris Johnson's Personal Mobile Phone Number Available Online For 15 Years 37
English Soccer Teams Have Started a Four-Day Social Media Boycott To Protest Online Abuse 59
'Self-Driving' Cars To Be Allowed On UK Roads This Year 34
Spotify Is Raising Prices For Lots of Its Plans 59
New UK Court Case Could Decide if Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto, Creator of Bitcoin 68
Executives at Europe's Largest Bank Told to Try 'Hot Desking' 69
How Faulty Software Landed Dozens of UK Postmasters In Prison 64
Post Office Workers Convicted of Theft Due To Faulty Software Have Names Cleared 49
MI5 Warns of Spies Using LinkedIn To Trick Staff Into Spilling Secrets 35
UK Invokes National Security To Probe Nvidia's ARM Deal 27
NHS Covid-19 App Update Blocked For Breaking Apple and Google's Rules 62
In Serious Incident, Software Glitch Miscalculates the Weight of Three UK Flights 93
Great Britain's Electricity System Has Greenest Day Ever Over Easter 128
Almost Third of UK Covid Hospital Patients Readmitted Within Four Months 131
Alan Turing Honored As The Face of the UK's New 50-Pound Bank Note 67
Half of UK Internet Registry Operator Nominet's Board, Including CEO and Chairman, Has Been Ditched 32
British Army To Be Reduced By About 10,000 Soldiers As Part of Move Towards Robots, Drones, and Cyber Warfare 73
Half the UK's Adult Population Has Received at Least One Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine 237
Police Warn Students To Avoid Sci-Hub 150
In First, Uber Agrees To Classify British Drives As 'Workers' 62
App Store Supports Over 830,000 Jobs in UK, Germany and France, Says Apple 30
UK Businesses Caught Buying Five-Star Google Reviews 50
UK Competition Watchdog Investigates Apple's App Store 59
Uber Loses Gig Workers Rights Challenge in UK Supreme Court 151
Britain is Cracking Down on the $3.7 Billion 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Industry 131
Flying Cars Airport of the Future To Land in England 31
Facebook's Secret Settlement On Cambridge Analytica Gags UK Data Watchdog 25
UK Nuclear Spacecraft Could Halve Time of Journey To Mars 145
Google Ad Changes Face UK Probe in First Shot at Big Tech 30
UK Watchdog Begins Investigating Nvidia's $40 Billion Takeover of Arm 22
81,000 UK-Owned .EU Domains Suspended As Brexit Transition Ends 201
UK Scientists Worry Vaccines May Not Protect Against South African Coronavirus Variant 238
Julian Assange: UK Judge Blocks Extradition of Wikileaks Founder to US 126
Julian Assange Extradition To US Blocked by UK Judge 156
A Four-Day Work Week Would Be Affordable For Most UK Firms, Says Think Tank 139
New Era for UK as It Completes Separation From European Union 527