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A MASKED man entered a terrified pensioner’s home brandishing a knife – but told her it was for an internet prank. However, the 74-year-old woman was left shaken but unharmed after she was confronted by the man in the hallway of her Hartlepool home. She was in her kitchen at about 6pm on Friday when […]

Europe 11:26 10.12.2018(updated 11:47 10.12.2018) Get short URL American actress and model Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill star, has provided her own coverage of the ongoing anti-government protests in France. The 48-year-old Thurman has shared a photo of herself standing in a crowded Paris square in front of Saint-Augustin Church, surrounded by people wearing reflective yellow jackets — the […]

There are more cellphone contracts than people. ITU‚ the United Nations’ specialised agency for information and communication technologies‚ said the number of mobile cellular telephone subscriptions was greater than the global population‚ as fixed-telephone subscriptions declined by 12.4% in 2018. “The new 2018 estimates reveal that there continues to be a general upward trend in […]

People get married in some crazy places like graveyards and shark tanks, but this couple fused their love of cars and each other by saying ‘I do’ on the backseat of a Porsche Cayenne.  The happy couple, John and Samantha chose the Porsche Centre in Atlanta Georgia as their venue and leather-lined back seat as […]

Oath, the Verizon media unit that houses digital brands like Yahoo, AOL and HuffPost, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle charges from the New York attorney general that alleged the media company’s online advertising business was violating a federal children’s privacy law, per The New York Times. Why it matters: This is an […]

Charter Communications Inc. announced Wednesday new tiers of Internet service that will offer faster connection speeds in New Hampshire. The new Spectrum Internet Ultra package offers speeds up to 400 megabits per second, according to a news release. That’s four times faster than the company’s basic plan. Charter also unveiled Spectrum Internet Gig for residential […]

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) estimates that at the end of 2018, 51.2 per cent of the global population, or 3.9 billion people, will be using the Internet according to its latest 2018 global and regional ICT estimates. Of all ITU regions, the strongest growth was reported in Africa, where the percentage of people using […]

Huawei has revealed a plan to build a massive undersea Internet cable stretching from South America to China with a possible diversion to Sydney. Unnamed experts are warning that the plan could be an espionage risk, according to an Australian newspaper report. It notes that Australia has spent nearly $137 million to lock Huawei out […]