Technology

From budget buys to bank breakers

Everything you need to know about the volatile cryptocurrency 

Police issue warning over criminal extortion using threat of sharing sexual images

Critics say the small tracking devices can be ‘as creepy as they are helpful’

Japanese tech giant unveiled the Vision-S 02 at CES 2022

Social media expert says news account’s suspension is ‘one of the shadiest things I’ve ever seen’

Major talking points include electric vehicles, hybrid working and the metaverse

Streaming is on the up but MPs say most artists make ‘pitiful’ incomes from services

Former tech start-up executive found guilty of fraud

Apple briefly hit the milestone $3 trillion valuation on the first day of trading in 2022

Has the US given up on policing the world? Should we worry about a falling population? And is social media really a threat to democracy?

Users gave weddings, K-pop and Twitter wit the thumbs up

Vice president insists on using wired headphones for security reasons, report claims

Victims in UK and US legal action claim social media giant failed to prevent incitement of violence

Everything you need to know about the major new cryptocurrency trend

Supreme Court judgment described as ‘a dark day when corporate greed is valued over our right to privacy’

Tech tells soldiers whether a person should be ‘detained, arrested or left alone’

Co-founder of ‘Spanish Facebook’ says he was tortured into revealing cryptocurrency passwords

Is Zuckerberg right to be betting so much on the metaverse?

Sky promises to ‘simplify’ the way that many of us watch our favourite shows and films

Companies in the news include AWS, Facebook and Gieves & Hawkes

Tesla chief Elon Musk leads the way ahead of Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault

Former social media employee says she developed interest in civic responsibility as a child

Branding shift could reflect ambition to become ‘metaverse company’

Facebook knows its products are destructive, but it does not appear to be doing everything it can to fix them

The metaverse is Silicon Valley’s new obsession. Could it change the world?

Simon Parkin reports on the encrypted messaging service used by criminals around the world

Former product manager Frances Haugen claims social media giant is ‘putting profit over safety’

Share price is hit by global service outage and whistleblower allegations

Musicians, historians and scientists join forces to ‘create something that Beethoven himself might have written’

Are we on the verge of a new agricultural revolution? Why are comedians going to court? And what on earth is manifesting?

Facebook faces damaging claims that it was aware of harm Instagram caused to children

European Commission pushing to establish USB-C as standard for all phones