Month: April 2022

Culture secretary asks UK broadband firms to raise awareness of social tariffs

Audio player loading… Culture secretary Nadine Dorries has written to the UK’s broadband providers urging them to do more to promote social broadband tariffs, weeks after Ofcom published proposals to the same effect. In the letter, Dorries expressed her gratitude for the work already done by the telecoms industry in…

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[Updated] Optus mobile and NBN hit with major outage

Audio player loading… The Optus mobile network and some NBN services are currently experiencing a major nationwide outage, as of Tuesday morning (April 5th). If you’re a customer on the Optus network and wondering why you can’t make calls, this is the reason, and the same goes for others trying…

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Optus mobile and NBN hit with major outage

Audio player loading… The Optus mobile network and some NBN services are currently experiencing a major nationwide outage, as of Tuesday morning (April 5th). If you’re a customer on the Optus network and wondering why you can’t make calls, this is the reason, and the same goes for others trying…

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These are the words Amazon’s planned employee chat app reportedly won’t let you say

Amazon reportedly plans to add a content filter to an internal messaging app in the making and would ban words that reflect the company’s working conditions or pertain to organizing a union, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. With the filter in place, the app would block or…

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Her Majesty’s Treasury is working on a new kind of mint: NFTs

The United Kingdom’s treasury minister has tasked the Royal Mint with creating an NFT as “an emblem of the forward-looking approach” Her Majesty’s Treasury says it’ll take toward cryptocurrencies and blockchains. The project was announced in a speech by John Glen, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, who said at…

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Google is luring workers back to the office with an incredible perk

Audio player loading… The days of working from home will soon come to an end for Google employees in the Bay Area and several other US locations but the company hopes to entice them to return to the office with a brand new perk. Beginning this month, the search giant…

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