Welcome to our tech news round-up from last month, designed to find those subtler stories you may have missed rather than the ones you know already. Do please add any similarly obscure ones that you’ve spotted in the comments section below!
- US mulls retaliation to French tech tax
- Amazon Prime Q&A
- General election 2019: Parties splurge on Facebook ads
- Apple Pay speeds up payments on the Tube
- Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down from parent firm
- Should I delete Tinder? These millennials think so
- Evil Corp: US charges Russians over hacking attacks
- HackerOne pays $20,000 bug bounty after ‘sloppy’ breach
- Why progress bars can make you feel better
- Chinese residents worry about rise of facial recognition
- The 20 best gadgets of 2019
- Peloton loses $1.5bn in value over ‘dystopian, sexist’ exercise bike ad
- ‘Peloton husband’ trying to prove he’s not sexist misses the whole point
- ‘Bike not included’: Peloton ‘wife’ in new ad selling gin for Ryan Reynolds
- Driverless taxi carries passenger on a British street for the first time
- Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
- Why is Sweden deporting talented tech workers?