A European team has become the first to win one of the highest-profile and most lucrative video games competitions for two years in a row.

A watchdog has penalised a local authority for trialling facial recognition on high-school students in Sweden to keep track of attendance.

Apple has apologised following revelations that it paid third-party workers to listen to voice recordings of Siri users.

An anti-groping device aimed at tackling sexual harassment on public transport has been launched in Japan.

Just under half of UK parents, 49%, think their child's school should ban mobile phones, a survey by price comparison site uSwitch suggests.

PayPal suspended an account used to raise funds by one of the US's largest white supremacist groups six days after it was first flagged by an anti-bigotry campaigner.

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have been turning to a new app to communicate - one that does not use the internet and is therefore harder for the Chinese authorities to trace.

YouTube has been fined a record $170m (£139m) by a US regulator for violating children's privacy laws.

Google has been accused of using hidden webpages that are assigned to users to provide more information to advertisers about their every move online.

The Chinese government says it plans to "curb and regulate" the use of facial recognition technology and other apps in schools.