How to ‘deep clean’ your online activity
Jared O'Mara is not the first person to have old comments he posted online come back to haunt him.
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Ichthyosaur fossil discovered for first time in India
Scientists in India have discovered a 152 million-year-old fossil of an ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile - in the western state of Gujarat.
Trump declares opioid crisis a public health emergency
US President Donald Trump has declared the nation's painkiller-addiction crisis a public health emergency.
UK must prepare for fourth industrial revolution, says report
Advanced digital technology could give UK manufacturing a huge boost and create hundreds of thousands of jobs, a new report claims
Russia-linked posts ‘reached’ 126m Facebook users in US
Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the last two years.
Facebook, Twitter and Google berated by senators on Russia
Russian operatives, likely working from St Petersburg, provoked angry Americans to take to the streets, a US Senate committee heard on Wednesday.
Women won’t have equality for 100 years – World Economic Forum
The equality gap between men and women would take 100 years to close at its current rate, an economic monitoring group has suggested.
AI image recognition fooled by single pixel change
Computers can be fooled into thinking a picture of a taxi is a dog just by changing one pixel, suggests research.
Paradise Papers: Apple’s secret tax bolthole revealed
The world's most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.
Facebook’s fake news experiment backfires
A Facebook test that promoted comments containing the word fake to the top of news feeds has been criticised by users.
