Tech giant to retire service it acquired for $8.5bn after being overtaken by upstarts such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Zoom ...

Apple received a “technical capability notice” under the UK Investigatory Powers Act last month, demanding it create a way to tap encrypted data stored in the cloud that even Apple itself is otherwise ...

Amid the drumbeat of calls for greater defence spending, no one is asking whether we should be spending smarter, rather than more ( Opinion, February 22). Britain has form on going over-budget on the ...

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So there is no Flemish language. Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French and German. Over time, pidgin English may be added as a fourth language for the many eurocrats here in Brussels — ...

The plan would be to charge the US a tariff for using the English language. An internationally accepted exchange rate already exists in the form of “Scrabble” letter scores. In the spirit of recent ...

I read Diana Dobson’s letter with interest ( February 22) on the assisted dying debate in which she cites the self-sacrifice of Captain Oates in March 1912 as an example of someone “relieving the ...

For years my father reminisced fondly about the ice-creams he had there in the 1940s while on army leave from Mandate Palestine, so I was delighted to visit after the Arab Spring in 2012. Long may it ...

Is Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) about to join Lloyd’s of London? As I note a new syndicate has been formed: syndicate 1984! No doubt “Winston Smith and Ors” will be fully covered by “Dystopia Re”, ...

While it is always gratifying to see an article on tapestry weaving (“Crest of a weave”, House & Home, February 1), I would suggest that the current interest in the art form has been sparked by ...

Such a system would also have the advantage of providing market intelligence to owners about loyal customers as well as alerting them to the recidivist time wasters.

It reminded me of the way my father Tullio Bolletta, a master watchmaker, used to present a watch to a client. When he started his Lorenz brand in the 1950s, the hits in his collection used to be ...