They’ll know what they’re seeing

If you think our privacy is compromised now, just wait.

Smart speakers raise a number of privacy questions, which owners are choosing to just shrug off.

Turns out those violent video games might be a blessing in disguise.

Scammers are using Google Maps to trick people into giving up their bank details. The app lets users edit and update listings, so the fraudsters are changing banks' phone numbers to their own. Victims then call them up and give up their details without ever realise something's gone wrong.

Throughout history, people have used encryption to send messages to each other that (hopefully) couldn’t be read by anyone besides the intended recipient.

Be My Eyes is an app that connects blind and visually impaired with sighted helpers from around the world via live video connection.

The rules for parents keep changing, but there are some steps you can take.

LinkedIn says that it’s ‘taken appropriate action’.

Parents warned against buying over-18s games.

The novelty of the internet platform boom has mostly worn off. Now that companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Alphabet are among the world’s most valued companies, people are starting to hold them more accountable for the impact of their actions on the real world.

U.S. adults have begun to turn on social media giants like Facebook and Twitter, and a majority believes that these social media platforms have done more to hurt democracy and free speech than help.

Women and young people are more likely to self-censor if they think they’re being monitored.

THE WORLD’S MOST ambitious “smart city,” known as Quayside, in Toronto, has faced fierce public criticism since last fall, when the plans to build a neighborhood “from the internet up” were first revealed.

Surveillance capitalism and targeted advertising have become the norm on the internet, and it's hurting all of us.

AT THE BEGINNING of October, Amazon was quietly issued a patent that would allow its virtual assistant Alexa to decipher a user’s physical characteristics and emotional state based on their voice. Characteristics, or “voice features,” like language accent, ethnic origin, emotion, gender, age, and background noise would be immediately extracted and tagged to the user’s data file to help deliver more targeted advertising.

Kids these days prefer Snapchat and Instagram to Twitter. But despite losing as many as 9 million users, Twitter somehow managed to rake in the money recently.

Netflix and YouTube now account for over a quarter of global data traffic on the network.

China’s state media agency Xinhua just revealed the first “AI anchor” that can talk, move, and act like a real human news anchor.

The best fun and educational software that won’t bombard impressionable brains with aggressive adverts or adult content.