Google's development of a processor for Pixel phones and Chromebooks could materialize a chip as soon as early next year and could help the tech giant support on-board artificial intelligence.

According to an email from the Google-owned home security company sent to users, it will lower users' cameras to their default settings automatically to 'conserve internet resources.'

France's Les Echos also reports that Breton also pressed Apple to guarantee that the technology would be built with privacy in mind as well as being voluntary and transparent.

The decision to disable tech supporting contact tracing apps designed to monitor the spread of COVID-19 be made on a geographic basis according to representatives.

Professor Christophe Fraser, from Oxford University's Big Data Institute, said 60 per cent of the UK population - or 40 million - would need to download the app.

While most people would be happy with an iPhone for their birthday, Larry Emdur is receiving a new electric Tesla Cybertruck.

A fascinating look at how gifts have changed over the past five decades has shown how shoppers now spend up to eight times as much on Christmas presents. 

The fraud targeting UK phone users involves a text from a sender entitled 'Royal Mail' which reads: 'There is an item waiting to be confirmed. You took one of the spots on our Currys' XMAS-list.'

Today, Apple officially opened a hacking program that will pay people who discover bugs and security holes in the company's full range of devices, with the top prize offered being $1million.

Where better to test the iPhone 11 Pro than in Murmansk in December, when the sun never rises? That was the thinking behind Kiwi photographer Amos Chapple's odyssey to the Russian city.

Renders claiming to be Apple's 2020 iPad Pro family have surfaced online. The images show two devices, an 11in and 12.9in, both of which will be designed with a triple rear camera system.

Among the major changes, according to LetsGoDigital, would be getting rid of Apple's current face recognition software, Face ID and replacing it with in-display fingerprint technology.

Apple will replace cases with built-in chargers for its XS, XS Max, and XR models after issues prevented them from charging the case and sometimes the devices they were attached to.

Analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, who has often forecast major moves by Apple, says that despite prior reports, the tech giant will make its iPhone 12 line compatible with 'true' and hyper fast mmWave 5G.

Officials in Massachusetts are warning against a new viral TikTok trend where teenagers sliding a penny behind plugged in iPhone chargers to spark a fire. One student will face charges.

Caviar released a modified iPhone 11 Pro inspired by Tesla's Cybertruck. The case is made of titanium, which claims to provide 'absolute protection' -unlike the Cybertruck's windows, the firm implies.

Cybersecurity expert Gal Weizman unearthed a weakness in WhatsApp for desktop computers that exposes the private files of users. WhatsApp fixed the vulnerability globally in December.

Stacey Hampton had a sudden change of heart about her 'husband' after learning he was a rich businessman during Monday's episode of Married At First Sight. 

iPhone maker Foxconn resumes production at its plant in Zhengzhou, but has yet to receive approval for its Shenzhen factory. The factories make up the bulk the firm's assembly lines for the handsets.

'AirPod Pro Lite' are said to be a cheaper version of Apple's $249 AirPods Pro earbuds. However, the new version will not include high-end features like active noise cancelling and adaptive equalization.

Catch.com.au has released a '48-hour non-stop deal drop' for customers looking to purchase the latest Apple, Casio and KitchenAid products at a discounted rate.

According to director Rian Johnson, there's an easy way to tell heroes and villains apart in movies: Look at what kind of phone they're using, as Apple won't allow villains to be filmed with their phones.

A kind-hearted woman who stopped to save an old man's life was cruelly robbed of her iPad as she resuscitated him by the side of a Perth road.

According to a Canadian Apple Blog, iPhone Canada , a support document on Apple's Chinese website leaked four new iPad Pros but was taken down shortly after being uploaded.

David Hockney, a celebrated 82-year-old artist, has unveiled 10 vibrant images created on his iPad during isolation at his Normandy home, capturing the turn of the season in all its glory.

Winchester-born actress and model Cressida Bonas, 31, read The Night Parade by Lily Roscoe from her home, and the video was shared to Sarah Ferguson's YouTube channel.

Max Lewis, six, came to his mother Nicky's rescue when she fell ill at their house in Stoke-on-Trent. He called his aunt, Sonia, to tell her his mother, 31, was 'breathing funny' and she called 999.

Some of the taxes we currently pay and a number of the tax breaks we are given to encourage us to save for old age are either too onerous or far too complicated.

Smart meters are not as dangerous as hard shoulder-less smart motorways will ever be, but their creeping introduction has not been without buckets of controversy.

Although the powder-puff City regulator the FCA has launched an investigation into the demise of Woodford Investment Management, this probe seems to be progressing at a snail's pace.

Nero fiddled, while Rome burned. Or to put the expression in a modern day investment context, Christopher Hill (chief executive of Hargreaves Lansdown) fiddles while investors get burnt.

With the smell of a spring Budget in the air comes the rumour of yet more restrictions on the tax relief available to boost our pension saving. But how will Mr Sunak treat pension savers?

These are worrying times for readers with shares-based Isas and investments held inside self-invested personal pensions. But panicking out of investments not is not the right way forward.

These are difficult days. At times, it feels like the world is shuddering to a halt. There are fewer people as I wind my way to and from work every day and night on public transport.

I would put money on the Chancellor's Budget this Wednesday being radically different to the one Rishi Sunak envisaged just over three weeks ago when he stepped into Sajid Javid's shoes.

The UK stock market alone has fallen in value by 30 per cent since the start of the year. But if you hold these trusts for troubled times then things should look better.

Today, I was planning to drive up to see Mother in Birmingham and take her out for a slap-up Mother's Day meal at her favourite Miller & Carter steakhouse in Sutton Park.

What a week, what a month. Enough to turn many investors' hair grey (mine included) - with some no doubt wishing that commercial travel to the moon was a) available now; and b) affordable.

I trust that you are well and withstanding the turmoil brought to all our lives by this wicked coronavirus. In this time of great uncertainty, we need to look after each other like never before.

Holding businesses to ransom through the imposition of onerous interest charges on emergency loans is despicable. As is leaving customers hanging on the phone for hours.

Whenever I think of Honor Blackman, I will remember someone who in her 80s campaigned passionately for financial justice to be given to investors who lost money following the near collapse of Equitable Life.

Helpful staff in the ever-shrinking branch network are being rapidly replaced by automated 'contact' - usually in the form of texts. This is fine, but not if the robots do not know their left hands from their right.

What firmly sticks in my craw with regards to students is the appalling treatment many of them are receiving from landlords, says Jeff Prestridge.

The trend towards greater online banking and less reliance on hard cash is irrevocable. Indeed, Covid-19 has helped the banks in pursuing these dual goals.

An eBay seller has since re-listed the Lion King furry Simba Ooshi after learning the buyer made an offer just 'for fun.'

Meghan Markle's issue of Vogue has caused a frenzy online as royal fans desperately try to get their hands on the magazine. Listings on eBay show the issue is selling for up to £28.

Royal fans are rushing to get their hands on a dress worn by Meghan Markle, 38, to watch the US Open Tennis Championships on Saturday. The J.Crew dress is now selling for over £270 online.

Meghan Markle, 38, has received praise from her friends following the launch of her charity high-street clothing range - including Jessica Mulroney who commented 'so proud of you' on Instagram.

Australian shoppers are selling Cadbury Caramilk on eBay for up to 10 times the price - as frustrated chocolate fans reveal they are struggling to get their hands on the sought-after product.

The official soft toy is on sale at John Lewis and Waitrose for £15, but is already being advertised for nearly four times that price - despite the commercial itself not even airing on TV until Saturday.