The Law Commission wants to strengthen the law to protect victims of intimate image abuse.
The new feature will be available in the autumn and comes after its devices were successfully targeted.
Nasa says contact has been re-established with the moon-bound Capstone satellite.The announcement came at 3.30am this morning NZT - ending a day and a half of the Rocket Lab-launched craft being lost in space.The astronomy community...
Hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on 1 billion Chinese from a Shanghai police database in a leak that, if confirmed, could be one of the largest data breaches in history.In a post on the online hacking forum Breach...
Twitter has petitioned a court challenging "several" orders to take down content on its platform.
Rocket Lab is looking to set a new fast-turnaround record for launches of its Electron rocket for a US agency that supplies intelligence for military and civilian clients.It has its "Wise One Looks Ahead" launch scheduled from Pad...
The government is giving Ofcom extra powers to tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation content.
Users of popular social media app Snapchat have been warned of a "creepy" update.It allows people on Snapchat to locate users down to their street address, and even reveals how long it would take to get there.The "Snap Map" update...
When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said "knowledge is power", he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media about 500 years later.Yet social media platforms are some of the world's most powerful...
Sky TV's new box won't appear this month, as originally scheduled, with the firm blaming Covid supply chain issues and the war in Ukraine.It says staff trials will begin next week, but it now can't give any date for even the initial...
A pilot scheme will courier chemotherapy drugs from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight, NHS England says.
Better data and real-time software is allowing companies to improve the precision of flood warnings.
A new report has claimed the Chinese government is now implementing cutting-edge artificial intelligence to monitor the minds of dozens of Communist party officials.Researchers in China claimed to have developed software that can...
Rocket Lab says its first deep-space mission is a success and is now looking ahead to its next interplanetary flights.A Rocket Lab spokeswoman told the Herald this morning that missions to Venus next year and Mars in 2024 are on...
The British Army says it is investigating after videos and posts for cryptocurrency appeared on its accounts.
Sixty-seven MPs and Lords have said Hikvision and Dahua surveillance equipment should be banned.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose $71 billion bid to buy Twitter remains in limbo, used the social media platform to announce he had met with Pope Francis."Honoured to meet @Pontifex yesterday," Musk tweeted of the Friday afternoon audience,...
Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems now that the US Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies.The...
As the FBI adds Ruja Ignatova to its most wanted list, new findings suggest she amassed billions in Bitcoin.
The Ukrainian president has been outlining his vision for the technology sector in his country.
Italian luxury brand Valentino and Internet giant Amazon have filed a joint lawsuit against New York-based Kaitlyn Pan Group for allegedly counterfeiting Valentino's shoes and offering them for sale online.
Podcasts featuring Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman will soon stream on Spotify as the Swedish music streaming company has signed a deal with AT&T Inc's Warner Bros and DC Entertainment.
Britain on Thursday said it would switch to Apple and Google technology for its test-and-trace app, ditching its current system in a U-turn for the troubled programme.
Russia on Thursday lifted a ban on the Telegram messaging app that had failed to stop the widely-used programme operating despite being in force for more than two years.
The European Union said on Thursday it could impose taxes on digital giants such as Google , Amazon and Facebook even without a global agreement by the year-end, after Washington quit talks and stoked fears of a new trade war.
Germany wants to rescue talks with the United States on how to tax big digital firms such as Google , Amazon and Facebook , the finance ministry said on Thursday after Washington pulled out of the negotiations.
Failure to work towards an international deal on taxing big digital companies could trigger a dangerous trade war, the OECD said on Thursday, urging countries to remain engaged in talks after Washington announced it was pulling out of them for now.
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) will buy a 2.32% stake in Reliance Industries' digital unit Jio Platforms for 113.67 billion rupees ($1.49 billion), the Indian conglomerate said on Thursday.
Tiny Kenyan start-up Gumzo is a minnow on the booming teleconferencing scene but its creators hope the platform will help companies spend more of their cash in Africa rather than on foreign technology companies.
Thailand's central bank unveiled on Thursday plans to build a prototype of a payment system for businesses using central bank digital currency (CBDC), or traditional money but in digital form being developed by monetary authorities around the world.