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...

Venezuela has been accused of censoring Twitter as part of its bid to silence dissent, but it's not so happy now that the shoe is on the other foot. The country's leadership says that Twitter has suspended 180 accounts linked to the government, including radio and TV...

Security researchers from PhishLabs have come across a new phishing trend that's targeting mobile device owners exclusively, with "the highest proportion of attacks" aimed at Facebook users.This new tactic relies on the fact that mobile browsers have very narrow URL...

The story of how Nricco Iseppi, a master falconer, came to Riot Games has, among the company’s staff, acquired the malleability of myth. According to one scriptwriter, it began when Riot had an orange grove planted on its multimillion-dollar campus, in Los Angeles, a...