Virgin Media is the worst broadband provider in the UK for leaving customers without internet, according to new research. The publication of the research comes amid another major outage of Virgin Media TV services across the UK. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view. Virgin Media customers reported problems with their TV on Thursday.

Tesla has reported its biggest ever drop in vehicle sales in the company's history. The electric car maker revealed the first quarter of 2019 saw 31 per cent less sale deliveries than the previous quarter, representing a fall of nearly 30,000 vehicles. It is the first time in nearly two years that Tesla has experienced a quarter-to-quarter sales decline but still represents a significant increase from the first quarter of 2018. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

Amazon has brought Apple Music to Alexa smart speakers for the first time in the UK. The feature was already available in the US but is slowly rolling out across the world. It means that people are no longer limited to only Amazon Music and Spotify as ways for Alexa to play music. Apple Music will work like those same services, allowing people to ask for a song or radio station and have it play from Apple Music. We'll tell you what's true.

Personal Facebook data was uploaded to be publicly accessible on the internet, the company has admitted. Hundreds of millions of records which included people's activity on the site had been stored on the internet in a way that allowed anyone to access them, cybersecurity firm UpGuard found. In all, more than 540 million of the records, including account names, comments and likes, were publicly available on Amazon's cloud servers after they were uploaded by two third-party apps. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

Nearly half a million songs that were thought to have been lost when MySpace accidentally deleted its archive of tracks have been rediscovered. The files – which are now available to listen to – were kept by coincidence and have been shared with the world once again. But they only represent the tiniest sliver of the total number of tracks that were deleted during the accidental clearance. Together they amount to less than one per cent of the estimated 50 million tracks that disappeared during a server migration at MySpace. We'll tell you what's true.

Twitter has been forced to backtrack after the French government accidentally fell foul of its own law designed to prevent the spread of fake news. The #OuiJeVote (Yes, I Vote) campaign was rejected by the social media giant as it risked contravening a law introduced in December, that requires paid-for political content on the platform to be transparent about who funds it, even though the campaign is aimed at encouraging people to vote. Twitter's decision was criticised by the French government information service (GIS), which planned to pay for the sponsored tweets. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

The idea behind the guillotine is this: If you're going to execute someone, you may as well do it efficiently and humanely, at least by 18th-century standards. Decapitating the condemned with an ax or sword may take a few swings--unacceptable for carrying out justice in a "civilized" society. The guillotine, on the other hand, is downright surgical, a perversely methodical way to end a life. Now mosquitoes are getting the same treatment in the pursuit of a vaccine for malaria, a disease that killed 440,000 people in 2016. To produce a vaccine for mass deployment, biotech firm Sanaria has to decapitate and dissect out the salivary glands, which hold the malaria-causing parasite, for each individual mosquito--by hand.

Two Chinese software developers are trying to harness the power of open source software to improve working conditions for coders. Last weekend, Katt Gu and Suji Yan, published the "Anti-996 License," which requires any company that uses the project's software to comply with local labor laws as well as International Labour Organization standards, including the right for workers to collectively bargain and a ban on forced labor. The license is part of the growing Anti-996 Movement in China, which refers to a common schedule of working from 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week. This grueling schedule is allegedly widespread in the Chinese tech startup industry, according to a story in the South China Morning Post last month. Last week, one or more anonymous activists launched a website called 996.ICU, detailing Chinese labor laws that a 996 schedule may violate, including provisions that generally limit work to 44 hours a week and require overtime pay.

This weekend, nine teams of robots (and their humans) will make their way to the Edgar Experimental Mine in Idaho Springs, Colo. DARPA SubT is a challenge on a similar scale to DARPA's incredible Robotics Challenge that took place in 2015--a series of competitions based on real-world needs, attracting some of the best roboticists in the world with sophisticated robotic hardware to match. The integration exercise (which is closed to anyone but the participating teams, we definitely asked) is just the first step in a challenge that will involve both a virtual competition and a competition for physical systems, each with multiple circuits culminating in a final that wraps everything together into one epic event. Some teams will get over US $4 million in DARPA funding, and the prize pool for the finals is up to $2 million. We'll be following SubT through multiple stages all the way until the final event, which is schedule for August of 2021.

I eagerly attended my 3rd GPU Technology Conference (GTC): "Deep Learning & AI Conference," in Silicon Valley, March 23-26 as a guest of host NVIDIA. GTC has become my favorite tech event of the year due to its highly focused topic areas that align well with my own; data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning; plus the show has an academic feel that I appreciate. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered another one of his patented marathon keynote address which unveiled the company's vision for the upcoming year. The company had to move the keynote's location from the San Jose Convention Center to a very large hall at San Jose State University (complete with pedicabs provided by Kinetica). At around 2 hours and 40 minutes, Huang's seamless and riviting keynotes are masterful with no notes or teleprompter used.