There is growing concern among global net users about fake news online, according to a BBC World Service poll.
It also indicates mounting opposition to governments stepping in with regulation.
In the survey of 18 countries, 79% of re…
Smartphone sales are booming with older consumers in the UK, according to a study of the market.
It indicates that 71% of 55-to-75 year olds now own an app-capable handset.
The research also suggests that the age group has seen a fas…
US police say an Instagram Live video helped lead to the arrest of a "most wanted" fugitive earlier this week.
Christopher Ricardo Gonzalez allegedly streamed footage of himself alongside several guns on the Facebook-owned app.
Dalla…
England's second biggest police force has revealed that more than one in five of its computers were still running Windows XP as of July.
Greater Manchester Police told the BBC that 1,518 of its PCs ran the ageing operating system, repre…
An electric bus has broken a world record by travelling more than 1,000 miles on a single charge.
The 40ft Catalyst E2 Max bus - designed by Californian company Proterra - went 1,102.2 miles on a testing ground in New Carlisle, Indiana.…
Social network Gab has filed a lawsuit against Google for removing it from Play, the Android app store.
Gab describes itself as a platform dedicated to free speech and has become popular with the alt-right.
Messages posted often cont…
A security company has issued a warning after its software was compromised by malicious hackers.
Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had been made available in August and September.
Millions of people…
Microsoft says that its Outlook email services have been fully restored, following problems which lasted several hours.
Many Outlook users were unable to send email or access their accounts.
Hundreds from around Europe commented on t…
The rise of cyber-bullying and monopolistic business practices has damaged trust in the internet, pioneering entrepreneur Baroness Lane-Fox has told the BBC.
The Lastminute.com founder also called for a "shared set of principles" to mak…
Owners of iPhones and iPads who install the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system will find that some older apps will stop working.
The move will generally affect apps that have not been updated in the past two years.
Alt…
Hackers broke into British company Piriform Ltd’s free software that optimizes computer performance last month, potentially allowing them to control the devices of millions of users, the company and independent researchers said on Monday.
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Google has offered to display rival comparison shopping sites via an auction, as it aims to stave off further EU antitrust fines, four people familiar with the matter said.
Google is under pressure to come up with a big initiative to le…
Setting up a Twitter account may seem a fairly obvious thing for a political party to do, but the step has not so far worked for an account in the name of China's Communist Party.
The account, which claimed to be from the party's youth …
Uber has apologised after being accused on social media of sexism in a promotional message sent to customers in Bangalore.
The message urged "husbands" to "let your wife take a day off from the kitchen", with a discount on its Uber Eats…
Social media platform Snapchat has blocked access to Al Jazeera content in Saudi Arabia.
Snapchat said it was asked by the Saudi authorities to remove the Qatari-backed broadcaster's Discover Publisher Channel because it violated local …
Italy's consumer price index (CPI) inched up to an annual rate of 1.2 percent in August, compared to 1.1 percent the previous month, according to final data from statistics agency Istat. The CPI also rose, by 0.3 percent, between July and …
Telenor Hungary will offer the new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus smartphones on pre-order from 22 September and in Telenor stores from 29 September. Telenor will also offer the iPhone X on pre-order from 27 October. In Hungary, the iPhone X…
Airbus is set to start long-distance trials for its newest passenger plane after engine maker Rolls-Royce fixed a problem that had disrupted flight testing, the companies said on Friday.
An Asian tour designed to test reliability of the…
BMW is reviewing the necessity of car keys, Ian Robertson, the company’s board member responsible for sales told Reuters.
The fact that customers now all carry a smartphone and the availability of a BMW App which allows customers to unl…
Facebook is reviewing its ad targeting system after investigators found they could direct ads to self-described anti-Semites.
Researchers at ProPublica found several ad categories for people who had declared that they "hated" Jews.
F…
The digital divide separating developed and developing nations is in danger of becoming a chasm, warns a UN report.
The divide has grown thanks to accelerating net connection speeds in developed nations and static ones elsewhere, it sai…
Eugene Kaspersky has denied that the cyber-security firm he founded is close to the Russian government and insists it poses no danger to its American customers.
Mr Kaspersky told the BBC that the Trump administration's move to ban gover…
It’s Monday morning, and for some reason, those electric banana yellow slippers have caught your eye online. You haven’t gone so far as to buy them yet, but all day the Internet keeps serving up neon, fluffy pantofles in your face like an …
Huawei has overtaken Apple as the world's second biggest smartphone maker by sales. The last time Apple was in third-place was when Blackberry and Nokia ruled the market, read on.
Huawei is now behind only Samsung in global sales and h…
Together with the introduction of the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, Apple has reduced prices for its other models. The iPhone SE, iPhone 6s/6s Plus and 7/7 Plus are still available, in 32GB or 128GB versions, in the standard colours of black,…
A photo of a 12-year-old boy shown without his eye was removed by Instagram.
Harry Beswick was born with Goldenhar syndrome. He is missing an eye, eye socket, nostril and ear from one side of his face.
His mother, Charlie Beswick pos…
More than two years after releasing the Apple Watch, Apple Inc has finally been able to replicate 1940s comic strip technology, an advance that analysts say will spur sales.
The Series 3 of the Apple Watch, released on Tuesday along wit…
COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - Facebook has tightened its rules on who can make money from advertising on its network, responding to criticism that it is too simple for providers of fake news and sensational headlines to cash in.
The worl…
Apple Inc’s highly anticipated iPhone X features a slew of innovations but delayed availability could hurt holiday-quarter sales.
The much-hyped event on Tuesday unveiled three new phones, an advanced watch that can take calls and a new…
Google has announced the launch of Google Play Music family plan and Family Library in South Africa. The features are available on Android powered devices in nine countries, including South Africa, reports Nextvame. The Family Library allo…
SES selected Arianespace to launch its SES-17 satellite on an Ariane 5 in 2021 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. SES-17 delivers high-speed inflight connectivity and high-powered data services over the Americas and the…
The City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned consumers of the dangers of investing in digital tokens issued by firms.
So-called initial coin offerings can raise millions of dollars for firms and consumers can mak…
Thankfully for tens of millions of cyclists around the world, Mark Gainey didn't walk away from the sport when he had a nasty crash back in 2002.
Racing his bike down a steep road in California, he hit a pothole and went flying, shatter…
An artificially intelligent chatbot that provides free legal advice has been configured to help victims sue hacked credit report giant Equifax without a lawyer.
The DoNotPay robot lawyer generates documents US consumers can take to the …
Apple's 10th anniversary iPhone launch is expected to be the biggest single upgrade the handset has seen since its launch.
A revamped design with an edge-to-edge display, facial recognition ID system and advanced augmented reality featu…
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Joy Huang, Vice President of Huawei’s IT Product Line, in a keynote speech titled "All Connected, All Cloud, All Intelligent", announced six innovative solutions designed to help enterprises with digital transformat…
China’s largest bitcoin exchanges are awaiting clarification from the government following more media reports that Beijing is planning to ban trading of virtual currencies on domestic exchanges, but markets were largely subdued on Monday.
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Facebook has been fined 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million) for allegedly collecting personal information from users in Spain that could then be used for advertising, the national data protection watchdog said on Monday.
The fine stemmed f…
The seventh season of Game of Thrones was illegally downloaded "more than a billion times".
Piracy tracking firm Muso says that its data suggests each episode was pirated around 140 million times, with the first episode the most popular…
An app that enables people to have live conversations in large groups is being used as an unofficial rescue co-ordination tool during the US hurricanes.
One woman shared a harrowing account of her experience collating people's SOS messa…
Tech giant Google has lodged an appeal against the 2.4bn euro fine (£2bn / $2.8bn) it was ordered to pay by the European Commission in June.
The regulator had ruled that positioning its own shopping comparison service at the top of Goog…
2017 has proved to be a lucrative year for cybercrime. Prominent malware and attack methods continue to evolve, creatively bypassing existing security solutions. In 2016, we witnessed sophisticated new malware emerging on a regular basis, …
More digital hubs will be established to cover more trade routes, paving the way for a global “digital silk road”
We believe the Internet is a basic infrastructure, just like power grids. We also believe that cloud computing is a public…
Apple has unveiled a new generation of iPhones, including the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus and a special edition iPhone X to mark 10 years since the Apple smartphone was first introduced. The iPhone 8 will be in shops from 22 September in selected …
Details of new iPhones and other forthcoming Apple devices have been revealed via an apparent leak.
Two news sites were given access to an as-yet-unreleased version of the iOS operating system.
The code refers to an iPhone X in addit…
Since the launch of Uber in Accra in June 2016 and the recent launch of Uber in Kumasi, the uptake has been phenomenal, probably due to the fact that Ghana is a forward-thinking city that has a need for safe, reliable and efficient transpo…
Kenyan taxi-hailing firm, Little, which has a partnership with telecoms operator Safaricom, plans to scout for an investor in Silicon Valley next year to help it expand across Africa, its chief executive said.
The one year old app has g…
China’s smartphone giant Huawei has surpassed Apple’s global smartphone sales for the first time in June and July to become the world’s second-biggest smartphone maker behind Samsung, according to a report from Counterpoint Research. Altho…
Google has redesigned its Street View camera system so that it can take clearer images and capture more data about shops and buildings.
The new hardware takes clearer panoramic photos, while two high definition cameras capture detailed …
Lithium-ion batteries that are resistant to exploding or catching fire have been developed by scientists.
The devices produced sufficient energy for use in household electronics, but did not ignite - even when punctured repeatedly with …
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