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Even by the relentless standards of tech innovation, 2018 has been quite the year. We’ve seen some incredible products launch

A shocking Amnesty International survey has revealed the scale of misogynistic and racist abuse directed at female journalists and politicians on Twitter. The crowdsourced study studied over 200,000 tweets and discovered that abusive tweets are sent to women every 30 seconds

Twitter has been compelled by a UK court to reveal the user behind an account parodying the British pub chain JD Wetherspoon. Does this represent a dangerous precedent on the social media site by removing the right to privacy? Or is it a simple case of defamation?

London's Metropolitan Police have been trialling facial recognition technology in some of the busiest areas of the city recently. We went down to have a look at the operation and ask whether this tech will keep us safe, or whether it's another invasion of our privacy.

Google CEO and Chairman Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee in response to confirmed security breaches and perceived political bias throughout their platforms. And the proceedings seemed oddly similar to Mark Zuckerberg's hearing a few months ago.

Almost 250 pages of internal documents from social media giant Facebook were posted online this Wednesday by a U.K. parliamentary committee. Here are the top five biggest news items from the cache of documents.

Apple is paying the price for taking so long to launch the HomePod and its first smart speaker is being brushed aside into obscurity by Amazon and Google's better alternatives.

2019 is almost upon us, and it looks like most important number, at least in the mobile world, will be 48. Why? That’s the latest milestone that we’ve reached in cameraphone megapixel technology. We examine whether or not more pixels truly make for better photo quality.

Higher temperatures will soon limit bean crop production in Central America, but a potential biotechnology solution has won the prestigious Newton Award. We hear from Dr Caspar Chater, one of the leading scientists behind the research into drought-tolerant beans in Mexico.

Google Hangouts has been a staple of businesses and individuals are years. But now, the tech giant has decided that it will b

News has sprung up of a radically unexpected change to the iPhone lineup: Apple will be returning to its fingerprint readers for the next generation of it's tech, and making the feature work on-screen, according to a new report.

Consumer technology, like smartphones, laptops, and tablets, has become an integral part of everyday life for the majority of the global population. Yet, the working conditions in which these devices are created have an increasingly terrible reputation for workplace welfare

With millions of selfies uploaded to the internet everyday, the humble selfie camera is putting in some serious work. You might not think it, but it's a major concern for manufacturers, and they pour lots of money into making your selfie snapping as easy and enjoyable as possible

One BitCoin was worth nearly $20,000 in December 2017. Now, the cryptocurrency is trading for barely a quarter of that. We asked a bunch of experts why BitCoin had been haemorrhaging value, why it got so valuable in the first place and whether it'll ever recover.

Facebook had the relentless Black Friday and Cyber Monday news cycle to hide behind as bad news about its platform and the organizations it works with mounted up. We've covered all the latest Facebook bad news here, so you can keep up to date with the embattled social media site

According to leaks online, Nokia is set to launch the world's first phone with five rear cameras. Called the 9 PureView, it's expected to be revealed early in December and should compete with the OnePlus 6 and Honor 10. We take a look at the leaks and what you can expect

It has emerged that several UK-based companies are considering giving their employees surgically-implanted microchips. We look at companies that have done this in the past and whether this is the thin end of the wedge for intensive and intrusive employee scrutiny

TikTok, the video sharing app, is this week's hottest trend. Facebook has clearly been paying attention, and has launched its own similar app called Lasso. We look at the times when Facebook has followed the crowd and copied an existing service, often leading to little success

With China developing AI tech that can recreate news anchors using sophisticated mimicry of real-life journalists, and the White House releasing doctored footage of CNN reporter Jim Acosta, can we no longer trust what we see with our own eyes?

A Tanzanian government official has announced on YouTube that he is forming a squad that will use social media to identify gay people and LGBT activists so they can be arrested. What responsibility should social media sites take when their platforms facilitate real-world harm?

With Samsung now having revealed its folding display phone, and another model already on the market from Royole, we look at w