United Kingdom Stories for 2018

Severn Bridge, a Main Route Between England and Wales, Shuts as Drone Flown From Tower 162
Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry 302
HMV, One of UK's Largest Retailers of CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, Calls in Administrators For Second Time in Six Years 76
UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones 129
The GPS Wars Have Begun 210
Big Ben Brought Back To Life Through Snapchat AR Lens 29
Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree 61
Over 110,000 Passengers on 760 Flights Disrupted by Drones Flying Over One of the UK's Busiest Airports 196
UK Police Are Testing Facial Recognition on Christmas Shoppers in London this Week 91
UK Just Banned the National Health Service From Buying Any More Fax Machines 111
Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities 143
Uber Fined Nearly $1.2 Million By Dutch, UK Over 2016 Data Breach 30
A UK Commons Committee Chair Says He's Seen Evidence a Facebook Engineer Flagged Russian Entities Pulling Billions of Points of Data Every Day in 2014 127
The Police in UK Want AI To Stop Violent Crime Before it Happens 170
UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers 225
Tech Shoppers in the UK Ditch Desktop PCs and DVD Players 123
'Google, Apple, and Uber Should Be Forced To Share Their Mapping Data' 109
Google Is Absorbing DeepMind's Health Care Unit To Create An 'AI Assistant For Nurses and Doctors' 27
Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? 189
UK Renewable Energy Capacity Surpasses Fossil Fuels For First Time 147
Zuckerberg Rebuffs Request To Appear Before UK Parliament 209
Researchers Launch Plan To Sequence 66,000 Species In the UK 13
UK Announces Digital Services Tax on Tech Giants 90
Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign 54
Experts Want To Ban Organophosphate Pesticides To Protect Children's Health 71
Facebook Fined Maximum Legal Amount For Cambridge Analytica Scandal 62
New Study Claims Data Harvesting Among Android Apps Is 'Out of Control' 97
Big Brother is Being Increasingly Outsourced To Silicon Valley, Says Report 70
UK ISP Tests SIM Card That Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor 46
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Sues Ecuador For 'Violating His Rights' 225
UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy 240
The UK Invited a Robot To 'Give Evidence' In Parliament For Attention 18
UK High Court Blocks Billion-Dollar Privacy Lawsuit Against Google 43
The UK is Practicing Cyberattacks That Could Black Out Moscow 153
UK Cyber Security Agency Backs Apple, Amazon China Hack Denials 56
National Theater In London Offers Glasses With Live Subtitles 46
Apple Watch ECG Feature Could Take Years To Be Approved In UK 87
Ecuador Wanted To Make Julian Assange a Diplomat and Send Him To Moscow 130
Britain To Create 2,000-Strong Cyber Force, Boost Budget By £250M 68
Time To Regulate Bitcoin, Says UK Treasury Committee Report 111
Video Game Loot Boxes Under Scrutiny By 16 Gambling Regulators 100
UK's GCHQ Intelligence Agency Violated Human Rights With Its Mass Surveillance Tactics, Top European Court Rules 45
Four-Day Working Week For All is a Realistic Goal This Century, UK Trade Unions Say 186
In UK, Consumers Are Now More Aware That They Can Ditch Their Phone Bundles, And Are Increasingly Doing So 33
World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England 175
Britain Faces an AI Brain Drain as Tech Giants Raid Top Universities 68
Murder Suspect Jailed Over Refusing To Reveal Password In the UK 165
ISPs' Listed Speeds Drop Up To 41 Percent After UK Requires Accurate Advertising 68
Number of Mobile Calls Drops For the First Time 40
Facebook Finally Discloses Pro-Brexit Ads 165
GCHQ Spy Agency Given Illegal Access To Citizens' Data 46
Government Spells Out Plans For UK-Wide Full Fibre By 2033 143
Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT 467
Facebook Chooses To Demote Fake News Instead of Remove It 154
UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home 254
Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes 113
Controversial Police Facial Recognition Test Fails to Recognize Anyone in London 41
UK Politicians Push For FOSTA SESTA-Style Sex Censorship 124
UK Banks Told To Reveal Tech Meltdown Plans 60
UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers 235
SUSE Linux Sold For $2.5 Billion 96
UK Police Plan To Deploy 'Staggeringly Inaccurate' Facial Recognition in London 104
One Misplaced Line of JavaScript Caused the Ticketmaster Breach 44
Scientists Develop Thermal Camouflage That Can Dupe Infrared Cameras 83
Ticketmaster UK Admits Personal Data Stolen In Hack Attack 17
Uber Granted Short-Term License To Operate In London 27
Voices of Millions of UK Taxpayers Stored By HMRC 90
Happy Birthday Alan Turing! How Modern Technology Could Win WWII In 13 Minutes 107
A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain 320
Facebook Ordered To Explain Deleted Profile 70
Prosecution of UK News Photographer Collapses After Recording Disproves Police Testimony 207
Britain's Dixons Carphone Discovers Data Breach Affecting 5.9 Million Payment Cards 32
UK Watchdog Issues $334K Fine For Yahoo's 2014 Data Breach 29
Digital IDs Needed To End 'Mob Rule' Online, Says UK's Security Minister 517
'Pirates' Tend To Be the Biggest Buyers of Legal Content, Study Shows 108
UK Bank TSB Admits 1,300 Accounts Hit By Fraud Amid IT Meltdown 28
London Launches World's First Contactless Payment Scheme For Street Performers 162
UK Military Fears Robots Learning War From Video Games 68
Most GDPR Emails Unnecessary and Some Illegal, Say Experts 91
Google Sued For 'Clandestine Tracking' of 4.4 Million UK iPhone Users' Browsing Data 33
FM Radio Faces UK Government Switch-Off As Digital Listening Passes 50 Percent Milestone 99
Ecuador Spent $5 Million Protecting and Spying On Julian Assange, Says Report 165
London Plans To Ban Junk Food Advertising On Public Transport 175
UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal 189
UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban 96
UK Officials Will Summon Mark Zuckerberg To Testify if He Won't Do So Voluntarily 145
Tesla Driver Banned From Driving For 18 Months For Sitting in Passenger Seat 138
UK Teen Who Hacked CIA Director Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison 150
End of the Landline: BT Aims To Move All UK Customers To VoIP by 2025 101
Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse 318
State-Sponsored Russian Hackers Actively Seeking To Hijack Essential Internet Hardware, US and UK Intelligence Agencies Say 170
Google Loses 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case 160
UK, Australia Investigating Facebook Amid Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal 40
Zuckerberg Refuses UK Parliament Summons Over Facebook Data Misuse, Agrees To Testify Before Congress 167
UK High Court 'Perma-Bans' Efforts to Extradite Lauri Love to the US 315
British Scientists Develop Wearable MRI Scanner 29
Britain's Plan To Build a 2,000 Foot Aircraft Carrier Almost Entirely From Ice 78
UK Launches Task Force To Scrutinize Cryptocurrency Risks and Benefits 27
Patients Regain Sight After Groundbreaking Trial 73
Did Cambridge Analytica Harvest 50 Million Facebook Profiles? 135
Google Releases Info On 2.4 Million 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests 69
Give Workers 10,000 Pound To Survive Automation, British Top Think Tank Suggests 200
Phishing Attack Scores Credentials For More Than 50,000 Snapchat Users 11
UK Blames Russia For Cyber Attack, Says Won't Tolerate Disruption 143
Lauri Love Ruling 'Sets Precedent' For Trying Hacking Suspects in UK 222
Judges Say the UK's Digital Surveillance Program Snooper's Charter Is Illegal 111
Automation To Take 1 in 3 Jobs in UK's Northern Centres, Report Finds 181
One in 50 of Us is Face Blind -- and Many Don't Even Realize 202
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant 229
Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance 345
UK PM Seeks 'Safe and Ethical' Artificial Intelligence 83
UK Hospitals Can Now Store Confidential Patient Records In the Public Cloud 81
Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit 316
Uber Says UK Drivers Will Take Mandatory Breaks 37
Ecuador Grants Citizenship To WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange 252
UK Backs Off From Banning Reidentification Research 10
UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' 308