Celebrities urge satellite firm to ‘stop enabling harmful fishing’

Celebrities urge satellite firm to ‘stop enabling harmful fishing’

The presenter Amanda Holden, chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and naturalist Chris Packham have urged a satellite firm to stop providing a service that they claim enables harmful industrial-scale fishing. Yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean have been collapsing in number for almost a decade due to overfishing. The decline has been so steep that Tesco, Princes…

New iPhone and record services sales help Apple return to growth

New iPhone and record services sales help Apple return to growth

Apple has returned to growth and ­beaten analysts’ forecasts with a 2 per cent rise in sales to $119.6 billion in the first quarter of the year, buoyed by the introduction of a new iPhone model and record revenue in its services division. The closely watched iPhone sales figures rose to $69.7 billion, up from…

Nvidia eases nerves with a profit surge

Nvidia eases nerves with a profit surge

Nvidia Corporation forecast first-quarter revenue above estimates last night, banking on huge demand for its industry-leading artificial intelligence chips and improving supply chain dynamics. The company, based in Santa Clara, California, estimated current-quarter revenue of $24 billion, plus or minus 2 per cent, compared with expectations of $22.2 billion. Total revenue rose 126 per cent…

Investors punish Google owner Alphabet for advertising shortfall

Investors punish Google owner Alphabet for advertising shortfall

Alphabet disappointed investors as holiday season advertising sales came in below expectations, overshadowing the company’s efforts in ­developing artificial intelligence and the cloud. The owner of Google and YouTube fell short of estimates for advertising revenue at $65.5 billion in the fourth quarter against average forecasts of $66.1 billion, and $59 billion in the same…

How political deepfakes could decide who wins the general election

How political deepfakes could decide who wins the general election

The first face you see belongs to a familiar BBC News presenter. She talks in the careful, slightly halting way they do when a big story is breaking live. The prime minister, she explains, has been caught in a financial scandal. He has secretly earned “colossal sums” from a project that was supposed to benefit…