Skynews The US Secret Service is looking to develop a Twitter sarcasm detector. The agency wants the software to help it judge whether to take specific...
NAN China has investigated and punished 422 websites as part of a national crackdown on online pornography, the State Internet Information Office said on Tuesday. Since...
By BBC A solar-powered plane that will be taken on a round-the-world journey in 2015 has made its inaugural flight. The Solar Impulse 2 vehicle lifted...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected Apple Inc‘s bid to delay a July trial to determine damages after the company was found...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Deutsche Telekom has filed a complaint with the European Commission, saying that some municipal utilities have cross-subsidised the expansion of their broadband networks...
BBC News ~ Online marketplace eBay is forcing users to change their passwords after a cyber-attack compromised its systems. The US firm said a database had...
Merriam-Webster announced on Monday that 150 new words and definitions have been added to the collegiate dictionary, including “selfie,” “hashtag,” “baby bump” and more. In a press...
By Thomas Grove MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev criticised an official on Friday for threatening that Moscow could block online networking site Twitter, in an...
By BBC Twitter is trialling a feature in its mobile apps that allows users to mute accounts that are becoming irritating. Unlike the block function, which...
LAGOS (AFP) – On the streets of Lagos and across God-fearing southern Nigeria, it’s not uncommon to see people with a leather-bound Bible in one hand...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc updated its terms of service on Monday, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails are automatically analyzed by software...
Washington (AFP) – Hidden in the Twittersphere are nuggets of information that could prove useful to crime fighters — even before a crime has been committed....
