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Joshua Barnett died on 17 March last year after falling into a pond while playing in the garden at his home in Beverley, East Yorkshire.

Claire Barnett was criticised by the judge for her “bad parenting” and told she posed a danger to any child for whom she had responsibility during a hearing at Hull crown court on Friday.

Barnett, 31, was looking at her phone at the time of the boy’s death, it was revealed. She attempted to save the child but he died in hospital later the same day.

YAWN. Facebook's limited array of emotional substitutes just aren't going to cut it - don't they know we're deep, sensitive beings with all manner of feelings? These are the Facebook buttons we really need to see.

1. The 'Not another bloody baby picture' Button

Google’s Senior Vice President of Ads and Commerce, Sridhar Ramaswamy, announced the new Customer Match product in a blog post on Monday. The Wall Street Journal first reported Google’s plans for the feature in April.

The tool will enable marketers to target ads to their existing customers and potentially to tailor messaging to them based on their purchase histories or other information.

The revamp makes Notes more visually appealing on the web and mobile, with a range of new formatting options and prominent cover photos and headers.

"Notes are now an even better way to write a longer post and share with anyone - whether it's a small group of friends or everyone on Facebook," said Facebook engineer Isaac Salier-Hellendag.

Facebook clearly has ambitions to challenge the likes of Medium in the blogging space, as the firm is offering a few suggestions to help you get started.

But on the first day of Advertising Week, a top industry convention in Manhattan, it was clear how much influence resides in Silicon Valley.

Facebook and Google, two digital advertising powerhouses, took the stage to introduce services meant to lure an even bigger portion of digital marketing dollars.

Users in various locations were greeted with an error message at around 3pm ET/8pm BST that read: "Sorry, something went wrong."

The outages follow just four days after Facebook temporarily went down on Thursday, September 24.

Facebook has yet to offer any explanation or cause for Monday's service outage, although service appeared to have been restored by 4pm ET/9pm GMT.

The matter riled up users on social media, who wasted no time posting on Facebook's rival site Twitter.

The official app for Vita and the microconsole are due to be discontinued, and features integrated within each of Sony's consoles are being removed.

The apps have been removed from the PlayStation Store and support is set to end completely by January next year, although Sony notes that this date may change "depending on circumstances".

The 'Child Rescue Alerts' will contain crucial information about the missing person and only be visible to those in the area where they were last seen.

Users will be able to share these notifications with anyone in their network to further increase the odds of the child's safe return.

Facebook will only display a Rescue Alert if the child's life is in danger or if they are believed to be at risk of harm.

The social network's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today (September 14) at a Facebook townhall that the new option will be geared towards allowing users to express "empathy".

"I think people have asked about the Dislike button for many years," he explained. "Today is a special day because today is the day I can say we're working on it and shipping it."

The tech billionaire continued: "What [users] really want is the ability to express empathy. Not every moment is a good moment."

Until now, images shared via the site could only be uploaded in a square format.

Disney, maker of the new Star Wars film, has already taken advantage of yesterday's change to upload a landscape-orientated teaser video.

Instagram recently announced plans to carry more advertising.