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Rio Ferdinand poses for photographs with children at 10 Downing Street to celebrate the launch of the Diana Award’s annual anti-bullying campaign Don’t Face It Alone (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Rio Ferdinand calls for new ‘inspiring’ online platform to combat child bullying

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Microsoft’s Outlook email service hit by outage

Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s proposed £35.8bn Twitter deal gets board endorsement

Apple unveils new products

Guide Dogs launches scheme to provide free iPads to children with sight loss

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Cloudflare outage knocks hundreds of websites offline

A Wifi-enabled robotic rooster has been placed on the Glastonbury Festival site to remind attendees when headline acts are about to start on the Pyramid Stage

Robotic rooster will remind Glastonbury-goers of headline set start times

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Work on AI algorithm could help create safe spaces from online abuse

Jessie Ware

Jessie Ware wants wearable tech for deaf fans in all live music venues

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Council to trial drone deliveries for school lunches

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Robot artist Ai-Da paints Glastonbury headliners ahead of festival attendance

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

‘Rich and powerful witnesses should not be able to avoid giving evidence to MPs’

A consumer champion has launched a more than £750 million legal claim against Apple

Apple court battle could bring huge payout for 25 million iPhone users in UK

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Microsoft retires Internet Explorer after 27 years

Nintendo Switch

Nintendo Switch fault should be investigated, consumer group says

WhatsApp on a smartphone

WhatsApp users can now transfer message data from Android to an iPhone

Instagram on a smartphone

Instagram brings new parental supervision tools to the UK

White faced saki monkey

Study explores animals’ reaction to ‘primate version’ of Spotify and Netflix

Health Secretary Sajid Javid will pledge to ensure researchers can access data safely and efficiently (Hannah McKay/PA)

New data strategy aims to ‘close digital divide’ between NHS and social care