Decades after other French-speaking countries adopted feminine names for professions, the official guardians of the language in France have also backed the change.

Music teaching could be left behind in an outdated acoustic age if it does not keep up with technology, an in-depth report says.

Google has remained silent over reports it told a US congresswoman that a controversial app was not in breach of its terms and conditions.

After a solid year of data breaches, privacy scandals and controversial policy decisions, Mark Zuckerberg now says he wants Facebook to become a "privacy-focused" social network.

Malicious quiz apps were used to harvest thousands of users' profile data, according to Facebook.

Global action is required to tackle the web's "downward plunge to a dysfunctional future", its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC.

Facebook says it has deleted more than 1.5 million copies of the video of the mosque attacks in New Zealand in the first day after the incident.

Google has unveiled a new digital gaming platform called Stadia which will stream better-than-console-quality games that have traditionally had to be either downloaded or purchased on disk.

Apple has launched a new version of its wireless earphones that allows users to activate the virtual assistant Siri by voice alone.

The passwords of millions of Facebook users were accessible by up to 20,000 employees of the social network, it has been reported.