In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including mobile, malware, networks, VR, data centres and AI.
Here are our highlights:
Investment manager Amber Infrastructure Group has acquired a majority stake in Australian data centre firm iseek, it's first Australian digital infrastructure investment.
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Facebook has begun displaying ads in its Oculus virtual reality headsets, despite the founder of the platform saying it would never do so.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3vILfEJ
A crewless ship designed to recreate the Mayflower's historic journey across the Atlantic 400 years ago is returning to the UK after developing a fault.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/2UhBb8u
Snapchat is removing a feature that displays how fast a user is travelling when taking a picture or video footage. Parent company Snap said it was because the speed filter was "barely used".
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BSO has completed the upgrade of direct connectivity routes between Frankfurt and Istanbul, Frankfurt and Moscow and Frankfurt and Hong Kong.
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The Reuters Institute Digital News Report, conducted in January this year, found that 36% of people in the UK "trust most news most of the time".
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Artificial intelligence is to be used to tackle the most deadly parasitic diseases in the developing world, tech company DeepMind has announced.The London-based Alphabet-owned lab will work with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDI) to treat Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis.
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SEGRO has reached an agreement with European build-to-suit data centre firm Global Technical Realty (GTR) to develop its first UK-based facility - the largest data centre campus in the UK hotspot of Slough, just outside London.
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Gamers are being duped into helping hackers become rich, after downloading games laced with hidden malware.
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Mobile operator EE will charge new UK customers extra to use their mobile phones in Europe from January. Those joining or upgrading from 7 July 2021 will be charged £2 a day to use their allowances in 47 European destinations from January 2022.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/365mZCt