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Airbnb says it will verify every single property on its platform after a news website found a series of scams.

In October, Vice News uncovered a pattern of false or misleading property listings posted on the rentals site.

Airbnb said it would review every property by December 2020, and also promised to refund customers if they were misled by

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Virgin Media is ditching telecoms group BT and switching its three million mobile phone customers to the network run by Vodafone.

Customers are being promised a host of new services and will not have to change Sim cards, Virgin Media said.

The cable group's current contract with BT, which owns the EE network, expires in

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Cyber-security company Trend Micro says the personal data of thousands of its customers has been exposed by a rogue member of staff.

The company says an employee sold information from its customer-support database, including names and phone numbers, to a third party.

It became suspicious after customers started receiving

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The clichéd image of an engineer is of a man in a hard hat, but one female engineer says she is more likely to wear high heels to work.

Pavlina Akritas is a lighting designer at multinational firm Arup, and she has been helping to highlight the lack of women in engineering.

The Royal Academy of Engineering says many

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The annual gathering of tech leaders and entrepreneurs at Web Summit in Lisbon has taken a strange turn, with a Twitter row over hand-knitted jumpers.

The €850 (£720) sweater is available to buy on the "swag" section of its website, along with cheaper items such as T-shirts and reusable water bottles.

Some delegates and

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Facebook says it has discovered a new privacy flaw on its platform that lets some app developers access data in Groups that they should not have.

The social network restricted how much information app developers could gather from Groups, following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

But it said about 100 developers had

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