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Instagram ‘worst for young mental health’

Instagram is rated as the worst social media platform when it comes to its impact on young people's mental health, a UK snapshot survey...

Google, Mitsui others co-invest in CSquared

Google, Convergence Partners, International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Mitsui) signed an agreement to invest in CSquared, a broadband infrastructure company...

Cyber-attack threat escalating – Europol

Friday’s cyber-attack has affected more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries, Europol chief Rob Wainwright says. Speaking to Britain’s ITV, he said the world faced...

Huge cyber-attack reported worldwide

A massive ransomware campaign appears to have infected a number of organisations around the world.Screenshots of a well known program that locks computers and...

Apple becomes first company worth $800bn

Apple has become the first company in history to top the $800bn mark in market capitalisation, slightly more than two years after it crossed...

Thailand warns Facebook over content

Authorities in Thailand have warned Facebook to take down content critical of the monarchy, or face legal action.The social media giant has been given...

It’s too late to give machines ethics – they’re already beyond our control

Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and now Demis Hassabis of Google’s DeepMind have all warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), urging that we...

Rise of the sex robots – video

Sex and relationship expert Dr. Laura Berman tells WSJ’s Tanya Rivero that the future of sex includes robots, virtual reality and drugs to address...

Mark Zuckerberg says change the world, yet he sets the rules

Try this for a thought experiment. Pretend Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t born in White Plains, New York. Pretend, instead, he was born in Smolensk, Russia....

Facebook nears two billion monthly users

Facebook’s profits have jumped in the first three months of the year, as the social network closes in on two billion users, according to...

WhatsApp power outage leaves millions unable to chat

Millions of WhatsApp users were left without service after the messaging service suffered a global power outage.The app stopped working at around 9pm UK...

Snapchat launches 3D filters