Yu Ruojian was pleased to learn that his target ran a sex shop. Someone who worked in retail would be used to talking to strangers, and it would be easy, posing as a customer in such an intimate store, to bring the conversation around to personal matters. In March...

As grocery shoppers work to digest Amazon’s massive acquisition of Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, the digital storefront recently scored a victory that aims to reinforce the company’s growing investments in brick-and-mortar retail.Amazon was awarded a patent May 30...

Jobs are disappearing, incomes retreating, the precariat growing. Thousands of people risk their lives in stormy seas to flee wars, moribund economies and climate change on a daily basis. Traditional politicians continue to avoid publicly addressing the tsunami of...

Tallinn, Estonia - Things are bad on the small island nation of Berylia after a diplomatic row with Crimsonia, its bigger neighbour and rival. There are street protests by the Crimsonian minority in Berylia, whoch then suffers a wave of cyber-attacks that make it lose...

Many supercomputers aid research into global climate changeFor only the second time in 24 years, the US has been edged out of the top flight of the world's most powerful number-crunchers.An upgrade to a Swiss supercomputer has bumped the US Department of Energy's Cray...

Propaganda on social media is being used to manipulate public opinion around the world, a new set of studies from the University of Oxford has revealed.From Russia, where around 45% of highly active Twitter accounts are bots, to Taiwan, where a campaign against...

Is President Trump ready to mend fences with Silicon Valley?The White House is hosting a summit Monday with top talent in technology. It's the first meeting of the American Technology Council, whoch was created by an executive order Trump signed last month.The group...

Uber has been rocked by a steady stream of scandals and negative publicity in recent years, including revelations of questionable spy programs, a high-stakes technology lawsuit, claims of sexual harassment and discrimination and embarrassing leaks about executive...

Google has unveiled four measures it will use to tackle the spread of terror-related material online.Among the measures it is deploying will be smarter software that can spot extremist material and greater use of human experts to vet content.It said terrorism was an...

Bilvärderingssajten Hurmycket.com toppar Konsument Europas lista på vad svenska konsumenter klagar mest på, hittills under 2017.– Det var inte tydligt på något sätt att tjänsten kostade pengar. Så fort jag fick svar att det skulle kosta 800 kronor hoppade hjärtat till...

THE GOP’S 2016 presidential upset wasn’t surprising just because it put Donald Trump in the White House; it also proved the party had vastly improved its ability to exploit data, including precision ad targeting campaigns on Facebook. Now comes the fallout of all that...

SAN FRANCISCO — In April, Wan Ling Martello, the head of Nestlé in Asia, found herself seated across from Arianna Huffington, an Uber director and a founder of The Huffington Post, at the Union Square Cafe in Manhattan.Over dinner, the two women — who had met just a...