Category: News
YouTube success revealed: Top 50 vloggers earn average $23 million a year!
With over 103 million subscribers, PewDiePie, above, earns around $50 million a year YouTube’s top child stars attract an average of 19.1 million views on each video, which is eight times more than the top gamers on the platform The average length of the most popular vlogger videos on YouTube…
Huawei to be stripped from UK’s 5G network by 2027
Chinese tech giant Huawei's equipment is to be stripped from the UK's 5G infrastructure by 2027, adding millions to the cost and delaying the delivery of the high-speed, ultra-low latency mobile network. The National Security Council took the decision - which is sure to increase already fraught tensions with Beijing - after the impact of…
Revealed: South West worst for gaming during lockdown
South West bottom of the pile for broadband speeds, with five of the ten areas where gamers are most likely to experience disruption Cities of London and Westminster the worst area for access to superfast broadband Kingston Upon Hull ranks highest for the best place to play video games online based on average speeds and…
Visitors to inactive domains redirected to malicious URLs
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered more than a thousand inactive domains that, when visited, redirect the visitors to unwanted URLs as a way to turn a profit. Many of these second-stage pages were detected as malicious. The compromised domains are all for sale on one of the world’s largest and oldest domain auction sites. When companies…
UK cybercrime doubles in five years, claims survey
Five-year study suggests cybercrime has cost UK businesses £87 billion since 2015 Percentage of businesses falling victim has doubled in five years Explosion in victim rates is highest among small companies The number of UK businesses succumbing to cybercrime has doubled in the last five years, with the sharpest spike in victim rates coming in…
Which Electric Car batteries degrade least? Audi A3 Sportback e-tron tops list
Electric Vehicle (EV sales) still remain low. In 2019, 37,850 electric cars were registered on UK roads compared to just 15,510 in 2018. This may represent an increase of 144% year on year, but it still only a very small fraction - less than 2% - of the overall total of 2,311,140 new UK car…
Recover Deleted or Lost PS4 Game Files from HDD or USB Drive
There’s no person who likes games and hasn’t heard about PS4. This gaming console by Sony is one of the most famous and successful ones on the market. And at least once, most gamers encounter a situation when they need to recover deleted files from PS4 games. Some remove those by accident, others fall victim…
Virgin Media launches Gigabit broadband in Edinburgh and Liverpool
Virgin Media has switched on gigabit home broadband in a further two cities as part of its plan to bring gigabit speeds to more than 15 million homes across its entire network by the end of 2021. Edinburgh and Liverpool are the latest cities to benefit from the hyperfast service, and follow the launch of…
Half UK employers to reduce office space and ‘stagger’ return to work
Nearly half of employers (49%) are planning to stagger return to work based on employees’ own health risks related to COVID-19, whilst 46% will be staggering employees return depending on how critical their role is to the business. The next most popular strategy is the creation of smaller workgroups (40%), followed by changing work hours…
Average Brit spends 43 minutes browsing online before buying
The average Brit will spend just under 43 minutes browsing online before committing to a purchase. A survey of 2,000 UK adults also found almost four in 10 also read online reviews before finally hitting ‘buy’. Insurance and white goods are the top items shoppers are most likely to look for a good deal on,…