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-- 2018-03-28 10:37:40
A scandal engulfing Facebook over the use of its data by political consultants widened on Tuesday when a whistleblower said Canadian company AggregateIQ had developed a programme to target Republican...
-- 2018-03-27 14:32:37
The governor of Arizona on Monday suspended Uber’s ability to test self-driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49-year-old pedestrian. The dec...
-- 2018-03-26 22:30:09
Scientists have developed a high-powered, environmentally-safe lithium-sulphur battery with a significantly longer life. “Common lithium-ion batteries only have a certain capacity,” said...
-- 2018-03-26 22:18:56
The US Federal Trade Commission is to investigate Facebook over how data on millions of users was grabbed by Cambridge Analytca. The social network has been criticised for letting the data analysis f...
-- 2018-03-26 21:05:45
The European Space Agency is to work with Finnish start-up ICEYE on ways to exploit its novel radar satellites. ICEYE-X1 was launched in January - the first of multiple spacecraft that will go up in...
-- 2018-03-26 20:45:51
A cyber-crime mastermind suspected of stealing about £870m (€1bn) has been arrested in Spain. The individual is alleged to be the head of the organised crime gang that ran the Carbanak and...
-- 2018-03-26 17:31:13
Anyone tempted to #DeleteFacebook after the personal data of millions of users fell into the hands of a political consultancy is still likely to be monitored by the social network which tracks nearly...
-- 2018-03-26 13:37:38
Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany cast doubt over the level of trust people have in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British and US newspapers...
-- 2018-03-26 13:08:47
Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany cast doubt over the level of trust people have in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British and US newspapers...
-- 2018-03-25 13:13:05
The head of Alphabet Inc’s autonomous driving unit, Waymo, said on Saturday that the company’s technology would have safely handled the situation confronting an Uber self-driving vehicle l...
-- 2018-03-24 13:40:13
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has had the official Facebook pages for his Tesla and SpaceX companies deleted. The #deletefacebook movement has grown after data firm Cambridge Analytica was accused of obtain...
-- 2018-03-24 13:28:26
The firm that designed the sensors on the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman this week has said its technology was not to blame. San Jose-based Velodyne told the BBC it was "baffled" by the in...
-- 2018-03-23 16:04:13
A US citizen is taking Cambridge Analytica to court to get access to data he says it holds on him. Prof David Carroll filed his legal challenge on the same day Facebook announced it had banned the co...
FE Online Report 2018-03-23 15:36:17
At least 30 million people in Bangladesh are using social media, according to the Digital in 2018 report jointly prepared by We Are Social and Hootsuite. It also showed that around 18 per cent of the...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-22 11:53:22
India has taken down the local website of Cambridge Analytica following allegations the company used personal data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the US presidential election. The accoun...
BBC 2018-03-22 00:00:00
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the social network "made mistakes" that led to millions of Facebook users having their data exploited by a political consultancy. Cambridge Analytic...
-- 2018-03-21 19:57:44
Big technology firms will have to pay more tax under plans announced by the European Commission. It said companies with significant online revenues should pay a 3.0 per cent tax on turnover for vario...
-- 2018-03-21 19:45:43
China’s biggest smartphone makers are collaborating to promote download-free “fast apps”, in a move backed by the government and likely to threaten Tencent Holdings’ grip on mo...
-- 2018-03-21 09:57:06
The suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica said in a secretly recorded video broadcast on Tuesday that his UK-based political consultancy’s online campaign played a decisive role in US...
-- 2018-03-20 14:32:06
Most Android phones will have to wait until 2019 to duplicate the 3D sensing feature behind Apple’s Face ID security, three major parts producers have told Reuters, handicapping Samsung and othe...
-- 2018-03-20 11:05:51
Uber said it is suspending self-driving car tests in all North American cities after a fatal accident. A 49-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed as she was crossing the street in Tempe, Arizo...
-- 2018-03-18 12:37:15
Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker best known for passing on information that led to the arrest of Chelsea Manning, has died aged 37. In online messaging conversations, Manning confided in him, describin...
-- 2018-03-18 09:44:15
Facebook Inc faced new calls for regulation from within US Congress and was hit with questions about personal data safeguards on Saturday after reports a political consultant gained inappropriate acce...
-- 2018-03-17 11:58:12
Electric carmaker Tesla, facing pressure on a number of fronts, is asking shareholders for a show of support for chief executive Elon Musk. The firm has called a special meeting this month for invest...
-- 2018-03-16 20:06:23
Platypus milk can help combat one of humanity's looming problems, antibiotic resistance, say scientists. The creatures have a duck's beak, venomous feet, one of only two mammals able to lay eggs and...
-- 2018-03-16 18:22:08
NASA plans to build a huge nuclear spacecraft that is capable of blowing up dangerous space rocks and safeguarding life on Earth. The US space agency is drawing up the plan to preparing itself to dea...
-- 2018-03-16 13:43:00
The chief executive of a company that created highly-secure smartphones allegedly used by some of the world's most notorious criminals has been indicted. Canadian-based Phantom Secure made "tens of m...
-- 2018-03-15 12:46:41
American multinational conglomerate General Electric has begun flight trials of the world’s largest jet engine after delays caused by technical problems, the company said on Wednesday. A specia...
-- 2018-03-14 21:33:46
A firm funded by Google founder Larry Page has unveiled an electric, self-flying air taxi that can travel at up to 180 km/h (110mph). It can do 100 km on a single charge, and it takes off and lands v...
-- 2018-03-14 12:46:21
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it will ban advertisements for cryptocurrencies and related contents starting in June. Under the new policy, the company will ban ads for unregulated or...
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