Pepe the Frog, the meme that was transformed from a "once peaceful frog dude" into a symbol commonly appropriated by racist or bigoted internet memes, has croaked.Pepe's inventor, artist and illustrator Matt Furie, drew the green frog in an open casket as part of a...

Facebook must remove postings deemed as hate speech, an Austrian court has ruled, in a legal victory for campaigners who want to force social media companies to combat online "trolling".The case - brought by Austria's Green party over insults to its leader - has...

The man who created what is believed to be the world's largest website dealing in images of child sexual abuse has been sentenced to 30 years in jail.Steven Chase set up the Playpen site on the Tor dark web network in early 2014.By the time it was shut down a year...

Most jobs that exist today might disappear within decades. As artificial intelligence outperforms humans in more and more tasks, it will replace humans in more and more jobs. Many new professions are likely to appear: virtual-world designers, for example. But such...

In June 2013, a young American postgraduate called Sophie was passing through London when she called up the boss of a firm where she’d previously interned. The company, SCL Elections, went on to be bought by Robert Mercer, a secretive hedge fund billionaire, renamed...

Facebook has broadened its campaign to raise awareness about fake news, by publishing adverts in the UK press.The ads, in papers including The Times, The Guardian and Daily Telegraph, carry a list of 10 things to look out for when deciding if a story is genuine.They...

APPLE HAS BEEN CROWNED the world's number one smartwatch vendor, despite speculation that sales were tanking.According to new research from Strategy Analytics, Apple sold 3.5 million smartwatches in the first quarter of 2017. That's up from the 2.2 million in the...

Researchers combined meta-data with over 10,000 examples of IRL fake news in a dataset to train machine learning algorithms how to automatically detect fake news.One of the most difficult parts of limiting the spread of fake news is that humans have a hard time...

In an exclusive interview with CNBC’s resident stockmonger Jim Cramer, Apple CEO Tim Cook made a proud announcement: His company will begin to invest $1 billion to create new jobs in the United States, as opposed to on the other side of the world, where its iPhones,...

HERE’S SOME NEWS for the alt-right activists in the United States behind a disinformation campaign aimed at getting Marine Le Pen elected president of France by spreading rumors about her opponent, Emmanuel Macron: The French do not much like having their intelligence...

Citigroup listed seven companies as potential takeover targets for Apple Inc (AAPL.O), including Netflix (NFLX.O), Walt Disney (DIS.N) and Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), as a way to put its cash hoard of more than $250 billion to work.With over 90 percent of its cash sitting...

French President François Hollande has promised to "respond" after a hacking attack targeted presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron.He gave no further details but said he knew of the risks of such attacks because they had "happened elsewhere".The French media and...