The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from record companies that want to pursue copyright infringement claims against music site Vimeo for hosting unauthorized recordings from the Beatles, Elvis Presley and other classic artists.The justice on Monday left in place a...

Instagram has always been all or nothing when it comes to boundary-pushing photos and videos: either they made it through the company’s censors, or they got removed from the service. But that’s about to change.Starting soon, the app will begin blurring out photos and...

Last week, it was reported that Drake’s latest project was streamed 89.9 million times in its first 24 hours of availability on Apple Music, a number that bested Spotify by nearly 30 million despite Spotify’s larger user base.Now, Apple Music executives Jimmy Iovine,...

Federal regulations designed to give you more control over your web browsing history and other personal information may soon be eliminated.There are steps you can take to protect yourself -- but you'll have to do more than set your browser to private mode. And there...

The Senate took the first step Thursday toward blocking rules that would restrict how some big tech companies share and sell your personal data, a prospect that digital activists said would be a huge loss for online privacy.On a party-line vote of 50-48, the Senate...

What if the world around us is just a shadow of reality? Imagine, for example, that you wake up one cold winter morning and look out your window to find that the view is completely obscured by beautiful ice crystals, forming strange patterns on the glass. You might...

  Ida Tin wanted to build an app to help women track their periods. For months, she went door to door, pitching the concept to early-stage investors in Berlin, London, New York, and Silicon Valley. Often, Tin, a soft-spoken thirty-seven-year-old from Copenhagen...

  Technology companies should no longer be able to provide encrypted messaging services that cannot be accessed in emergencies by the security services, the home secretary, Amber Rudd, said on Sunday.Speaking after it emerged that the police were investigating...

  Technology companies must cooperate more with law enforcement agencies and should stop offering a "secret place for terrorists to communicate" using encrypted messages, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday.Local media have reported that...

Adam Sandler's recent output has been... well, it's probably best not to talk about it. Regardless of how you feel about his work, Netflix and its viewers seem to be fans and as such the streaming juggernaut has inked another four-movie deal with the Saturday Night...

It’s been a bad week for Google, with major brands pulling millions of dollars in advertising amid rows over extremist content on YouTube.Starbucks and Walmart join growing list of advertisers boycotting YouTube In the US, the telecom companies AT&T and Verizon,...

  Image captionUber said the car was in self-driving mode at the time of the crashUber has pulled its self-driving cars from the roads after an accident whoch left one of the vehicles on its side.Pictures posted online showed the car on its right side on an...