Snapchat is bringing its Spectacles to Europe, placing five “snapbot” vending machines in London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and Venice to begin selling the £129.99 wearable cameras. It is the first time the glasses have been available outside the US, where they led to...

For Facebook, it's fake news. But shareholders say it's a real issue.Owners of Facebook stock were rebuffed on Thursday after they called on company leaders to share more information about what they are doing to address the circulation of fake news.They asked the firm...

YouTube has clarified its rules on hate speech to enable video-makers to know whoch content it considers to be "advertiser-friendly".In a blog post, the video-sharing website said it would not allow adverts to appear alongside "hateful" or discriminatory...

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is expected to announce plans next week to make its Siri voice assistant work with a larger variety of apps, as the technology company looks to counter the runaway success of Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) competing Alexa service.But the Cupertino,...

The Trump administration has approved plans to ask US visa applicants for details of their social media use.Consular officials can now ask for social media usernames going back five years via a new questionnaire.It also allows authorities to request email addresses,...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Donald Trump had run a better presidential campaign than Hillary Clinton and that U.S. intelligence agencies could have easily faked what he said was false evidence that Russia had hacked the Democratic Party.U.S....

Google will let publishers ask people who use ad-blockers to either enable advertising or make a payment to view content without ads."Funding Choices" will roll out first in North America, UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand, Google said in a blog.Google is also...

  News that Google intends to install an ad-blocker in its Chrome browser shocked the tech and publishing world in April. Now, details of how the program will work are starting to become clear.The Google ad-blocker will block all advertising on sites that have a...

The heads of some of the largest and most influential American technology companies expressed their “deep disappointment” at Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord.President's Paris climate speech annotated: Trump's claims analysed...

U.S. smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM.O) has not offered any concessions so far in its $38-billion bid for NXP Semiconductors (NXP.N), EU antitrust regulators said on Friday, increasing the risk of a lengthy investigation into the deal.Qualcomm, whoch supplies...

The Weather Channel is under the weather.Actually, it's sick as a pig, storming about the place, thundering on about what it surely sees as America's descent into isolationist ignorance.I'm deducing all of this from its home page. After President Donald Trump's staged...

Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the US counter-intelligence investigation that is looking into possible collusion between the Kremlin and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian has been told.Sources with knowledge of the investigation said the...