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Four search engine rivals to Google have called on European Union lawmakers to address the tech giant’s continued dominance of the market by setting rules for search engine preference menus, arguing that

Tech giants have gotten worse at removing illegal hate speech from their platforms under a voluntary arrangement in the European Union, according to the Commission’s latest assessment. The sixth evaluation report of the EU’s

Increasingly, conversations about big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence are going hand-in-hand with conversations about privacy and data protection. Now, a startup that is building tools to make it easier for

Last week’s testimony from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was devastating. The documents she took from the company were carefully and methodically explained – a window into the inner workings of Facebook. It

Emma Baumert admits that when she first put on the high-tech headband she felt silly. “But I also felt so cool wearing it, because I’m such a nerd.” The 24-year-old from Illinois

Google says it will stop ads running on climate change-denying YouTube videos and other content, and prohibit ads promoting these claims. The company says it is responding to concerns from advertisers. The ban

Facebook says it will begin clamping down on the illegal sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest on its site. The social media giant changed its policy following a BBC investigation

Satellite technology usually used to find water on other planets could help make Wales’ coal tips safe. The Welsh government-commissioned project comes after landslides at a tip in Tylorstown, Rhondda Cynon Taf, during

A politician whose father took his own life has said he was the victim of abuse which referred to suicide. Jack Sargeant, Member of the Senedd (MS) for Alyn and Deeside, said

I doubt Mark Zuckerberg reads the comments people leave on his Facebook posts. But, if he did, it would take him approximately 145 days, without sleep, to wade through the deluge of

Google is giving free physical USB security keys to 10,000 users at high risk of being hacked – such as politicians and human rights activists. The USB keys provide two-factor authentication –

It started with a catastrophic IT failure which saw its services wiped from the internet for six hours. It continued with a whistleblower telling lawmakers of a toxic culture which put profits