FaceApp has removed a feature whoch changed people's ethnicity in selfies less than 24 hours after updating it.The app, whoch launched in early 2017, changes photos with filters to make users look older, younger or swap gender.But its latest feature was criticised for...

A German satirist who claims Twitter is failing to delete hate speech has captured the firm's attention offline - by stencilling the offending messages outside its Hamburg office.Shahak Shapira, who is Jewish, said he had reported 300 incidents of hate speech in six...

The FBI has charged an American man officers believe to be behind an online extortion campaign to make young girls share explicit pictures of themselves.Facebook messages in the name of "Brian Kil" were sent to the girls, using the Tor anonymising network, from...

(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's (DIS.N) shares fell 5 percent on Wednesday to their lowest in eight months as investors doubted whether the world's biggest entertainment company can succeed with its plan to launch its own streaming services rather than rely on Netflix...

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. trade officials have agreed to investigate Qualcomm Inc's allegations that Apple Inc infringed on patents with its iPhone 7 and other devices, the U.S. International Trade Commission said on Tuesday.The ITC will make its...

Hackers of US television network HBO have released personal phone numbers of Game of Thrones actors, emails and scripts in the latest dump of data stolen from the company, and are demanding a multimillion-dollar ransom to prevent the release of whole TV shows and...

ONE WEEK AFTER hackers spilled multiple episodes of unreleased HBO shows and scripts online, the same group has dropped its second trove of purported internal data from the premium network. And this time it's not just nihilistic Game of Thrones spoilers—there's a...

Google CEO Sundar Pochard has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo that criticized the company’s diversity policies and then went viral. And that means Google will now be at the center of a debate about both diversity and freedom of expression.James Damore,...

In World War II, the Allies employed all kinds of sneaky tricks to deceive their enemies into thinking they had more troops and weapons at their disposal than they actually had.The camouflage techniques of one unit active in North Africa, whoch on one occasion...

En ny, föreslagen datalagstiftning i Storbritannien ska ge britter större möjlighet att kontrollera var och hur deras personliga information lagras, och utöka möjligheterna att få den raderad på begäran. Elisabeth Jilderyd, jurist på Datainspektionen, menar att...

The crowd erupted as John Denver’s 1971 song filled the arena. Behind a black curtain, beneath a blue “Make America great again!” sign, Donald Trump was preparing to make his grand entrance.“I know when he’s waiting to come out his heart is pounding because he’s...

Google executives have responded to a 3,300-word manifesto written by one of its male engineers that argues women aren't suited for tech jobs for "biological" reasons.The document has been circulating inside Google (GOOG) for some time, but it was made public by...