MPs who are leaving the protection of parliament for the campaign trail will render the election significantly more vulnerable to hacking, leading security researchers have warned.According to Dr Udo Helmbrecht, executive director of the European Union’s Agency for...

Facebook's profits have jumped in the first three months of the year, as the social network closes in on two billion users, according to its latest results.The number of people using Facebook each month increased to 1.94 billion, of whoch nearly 1.3 billion use it...

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) plans to create a $1 billion fund to invest in U.S. companies that perform advanced manufacturing, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said on Wednesday, the iPhone maker's latest effort to show how it is creating U.S. jobs.The Cupertino, California...

Facebook ($FB) has released its first quarter 2017 earnings and revealed that it’s inching ever so close to having 2 billion people worldwide use the social network. It now counts 1.94 billion monthly active users, an 18 percent increase from a year ago. 1.28 billion...

Islamic State militants are developing their own social media platform to avoid security crackdowns on their communications and propaganda, the head of the European Union's police agency said on Wednesday.Europol Director Rob Wainwright said the new online platform...

Apple increased its research and development budget to nearly $2.8 billion during the second fiscal quarter of 2017, meaning the company spent a almost $5.7 billion on the line item over the past six months. Apple's R&D offices at Apple Park.According to a...

Last week, a hacker or group of hackers dumped apparent full episodes of Orange Is the New Black after Netflix allegedly declined to pay a ransom, and has threatened to release a number of other shows too, including Celebrity Apprentice, New Girl, and The Catch. But...

The New York Times Company reported its single biggest increase in digital news subscriptions ever this quarter. The newspaper added 308,000 digital news subscribers, bringing total digital news subscriptions to nearly two million.Last quarter, the NYT also saw yuge...

Google’s Material Design guidelines are finally coming to the YouTube desktop site. What does this mean? Lots and lots of white space. And an optional dark theme. That’s about it.Functionally, the new YouTube.com looks a lot like the old YouTube.com, but the upcoming...

IBM accidentally shipped USB drives infected with malware to some customers, the company noted in a support advisory post. The drives contained an initialization tool for some of its Storwize systems, the post stated.IBM customers who received a USB flash drive with...

Facebook Inc (FB.O) will hire 3,000 more people over the next year to respond to reports of inappropriate material on the social media network and speed up the removal of videos showing murder, suicide and other violent acts, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on...

The Hughes family in Manchester have quit their jobs and put everything they own into building a social network aimed solely at sports fans. But can they take on the giants?"We see ourselves sitting at the top table with the big boys," says father Perry Hughes...