Technology

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

Why do so many clinical trials exclude women? Will we soon be free of power cables? And is panda fertility finally on the rise?

Leaked documents revealed the social network’s ‘corporate hypocrisy’ 

Exercise equipment company going ‘beyond the home’ following Precor acquisition

What the tech experts said about the new devices

Tech giant has partnered with Ray-Ban to launch internet-connected eyewear 

Why does Nasa want to bring Martian soil samples back to Earth? Will cookie warnings soon be a thing of the past? And are dachshunds getting too cute …

The watch has some ‘new health capabilities’, such as snoring detection, but it’s a bit of a work in progress

Social platform’s U-turn on porn ban followed backlash from users and financial partners

Hospitals reporting fractured ribs and broken bones as result of dangerous TikTok dare

The 60-year-old is celebrating a decade as boss of the tech giant

Ingenious software covertly allows access to target’s mobile phone - with ‘devastating’ implications for democracy

New report recommends that harmful online behaviour be criminalised under Sexual Offences Act

Since late last year, there has been a severe shortage of microchips, which is now affecting industries across the world

Jeff Bezos is No.1 on the rich list ahead of Bernard Arnault and Elon Musk

Joe Biden orders probe into latest hack of hundreds of US businesses

The global chip crunch is hurting industry and consumers. How can it be fixed?

London has become the latest UK city to launch a trial of e-scooters on public roads

Proposed minimum global level of corporate tax will target multinationals and tech giants

MI5 chief attacks plans to provide end-to-end encryption on social media platform

The mercurial entrepreneur has abandoned the cryptocurrency. What are the likely consequences?

Ransomware attacks have become a global epidemic, with more than $18.6bn paid in ransoms in 2020

Who exactly are they? And why are they always going to Dubai?

Irish healthcare system shuts down IT services after huge cybersecurity breach

Why are French soldiers up in arms? Is Instagram the right place for children? And can computers recognise emotions?